10 Remain in HEB Texas 10K Challenge; Alexander debuts in 10K
In an event which saw the 10K debut of 24-year-old Houston Running reader Jessica Alexander, 10 of the 11 competitors who had completed the first three legs of the HEB Texas 10K Challenge took on Lampasas Chamber of Commerce's Toughest 10K in Texas on Saturday.
(Houston Running is the only media outlet that provides any coverage of the H-E-B Texas 10K Challenge.)
Entering the fourth race of the Texas 10K Challenge, 35-year-old Seabrook Karen Nyberg was ahead of 15-year-old Ryan DiMarco from Sugar Land and 42-year-old Houstonian Eddie Espinosa by less than one minute. On this Saturday, the trio would finish within a minute of each other.
Nyberg picked up her second win among those completing all of the legs by outlegging both DiMarco and Espinosa. Nyberg was third in her 30-39 age group by running 44:37.95. DiMarco, facing a tough young field, finished 5th in his 13-19 age group narrowly missing Nyberg with a time of 44:39.55 and besting Espinosa, who finished in 45:14.00.
Other Texas 10K Challenge finishers included Pflugerville's Raul Capetillo (49:53.90), Sugar Land's John DiMarco (54:09.75), Houston's Mark Ezekiel (54:13.15), Kingwood's Jesse Keller (1:07:19.85), Houston's Joy Ezekiel (1:16:07.40), Pflugerville's Leslie Ann Capetillo (1:26:59.90) and Houston's Richard Kerr (1:27:37.65).
Houston's Zully Garcia was the only one of the 11 Challenge participants of the first three legs that did not appear in the official results today.
Meanwhile, Alexander admirably finished her first 10K in 1:03:45.65 and choosing a challenging course to boot!
(Houston Running is the only media outlet that provides any coverage of the H-E-B Texas 10K Challenge.)
Entering the fourth race of the Texas 10K Challenge, 35-year-old Seabrook Karen Nyberg was ahead of 15-year-old Ryan DiMarco from Sugar Land and 42-year-old Houstonian Eddie Espinosa by less than one minute. On this Saturday, the trio would finish within a minute of each other.
Nyberg picked up her second win among those completing all of the legs by outlegging both DiMarco and Espinosa. Nyberg was third in her 30-39 age group by running 44:37.95. DiMarco, facing a tough young field, finished 5th in his 13-19 age group narrowly missing Nyberg with a time of 44:39.55 and besting Espinosa, who finished in 45:14.00.
Other Texas 10K Challenge finishers included Pflugerville's Raul Capetillo (49:53.90), Sugar Land's John DiMarco (54:09.75), Houston's Mark Ezekiel (54:13.15), Kingwood's Jesse Keller (1:07:19.85), Houston's Joy Ezekiel (1:16:07.40), Pflugerville's Leslie Ann Capetillo (1:26:59.90) and Houston's Richard Kerr (1:27:37.65).
Houston's Zully Garcia was the only one of the 11 Challenge participants of the first three legs that did not appear in the official results today.
Meanwhile, Alexander admirably finished her first 10K in 1:03:45.65 and choosing a challenging course to boot!
posted by WalkSports.com | 4:36 PM
4 Comments:
yay! way to go Jess!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!
I second that -- nice run Jessica!
Thanks guys! I survived! Woohoo, it was a fun course, I would like to run it again next year:) Read about it here: http://houstonrunner.blogspot.com/
Yeah, I'm online now!
-Jessica
Well so what?
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