Career
She ran thirty races over the distance in her career, winning races in Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Enschede and Singapore. She was killed in a traffic accident while training in Haaren. Pullen started her running career relatively late in life, beginning to take athletics seriously at the age of thirty.
In spite of this, she had become a top level runner by 1988, when she came third in the Zevenheuvelenloop race and made her marathon debut over at the Eindhoven Marathon, coming fifth.
She had her first victory over the marathon distance in Eindhoven in 1990. In 1992 she ran under two hours and forty minutes for the first time, taking fourth place and a second Dutch title at the Rotterdam Marathon in a time of 2:38:06 hours.
She improved her best further at the Carpi Marathon, setting a time of 2:37:15 hours in another fourth place finish. She also managed third at the Frankfurt Marathon that year.
She made her American debut at the in 1996, but her time of 2:41:55 hours left her out of the leading pack.
She continued on a career high with a run of 2:39.00 hours for eighth at the 1998 Rotterdam Marathon and retained her Dutch title in Eindhoven, coming second overall behind Romania"s Simona Staicu. Other outings on the roads included a runner-up finish at the Oostende Brugge Ten Miles and 11th at the Zevenheuvelenloop. She was tenth at the 1999 Rome City Marathon and fourth in Eindhoven (recording her final career sub two hours and forty minute marathon with 2:3947).
She transitioned into the veterans" master athlete category for women over forty.
While running there she was hit by a car and her body was later discovered in a nearby ditch by Notenboom the following day. Police soon arrested a man who claimed he had noticed he had hit something, stopped and searched with another motorist, but that he had found nothing.