On The Run's Rodriguez finishes 30th at Peachtree 10K
Webster native Gabriel Rodriguez, 27, finished 30th (in Open Men's Division; 36th Overall) on Monday, July 4th in Atlanta, Georgia during the running of the Peachtree 10K. Rodriguez's time of 32:11, on a very hilly course, was more than a minute off of his personal record of 31:04 set last year at the Food World Senior Bowl Charity Run.
14 of the top 17 finishers, including the winner, 26-year-old Gilbert Okari (28:19), either live in Kenya or are from there and train in the United States.
The top Texan female? It was in the Master's Division as Austin's Carmen Ayala-Troncoso finished fourth in the Women's Masters trailing winner Colleen De Reuck by more than two (2) minutes, 35:33 to 33:12. Denise Morgan, 41, of Houston was 129th in the Women's Masters with a time of 50:40.
Texas' top "Open" female was 17-year-old Amanda Walker from El Paso (Andress HS) who finished 161st with a time of 48:36 (47:18 chip). Her 16-year-old brother, Wesley, who was 7th for Andress this past fall at the UIL 4A state cross country championships, was 91st overall among all men, finishing in 35:45 (35:43 chip).
Austin's Anthony Wong, 27, and Matthew Fisher, 26, were the only two other Texans in the top 500 for Open Men. Wong and Fisher finished in 39:46 and 42:46, respectively. (Chip times)
Former Houston Westbury Christian HS basketball player Stanford Bennett, 30, of Roswell, Ga., was 108th overall in a time of 36:15 (36:11 chip).
14 of the top 17 finishers, including the winner, 26-year-old Gilbert Okari (28:19), either live in Kenya or are from there and train in the United States.
The top Texan female? It was in the Master's Division as Austin's Carmen Ayala-Troncoso finished fourth in the Women's Masters trailing winner Colleen De Reuck by more than two (2) minutes, 35:33 to 33:12. Denise Morgan, 41, of Houston was 129th in the Women's Masters with a time of 50:40.
Texas' top "Open" female was 17-year-old Amanda Walker from El Paso (Andress HS) who finished 161st with a time of 48:36 (47:18 chip). Her 16-year-old brother, Wesley, who was 7th for Andress this past fall at the UIL 4A state cross country championships, was 91st overall among all men, finishing in 35:45 (35:43 chip).
Austin's Anthony Wong, 27, and Matthew Fisher, 26, were the only two other Texans in the top 500 for Open Men. Wong and Fisher finished in 39:46 and 42:46, respectively. (Chip times)
Former Houston Westbury Christian HS basketball player Stanford Bennett, 30, of Roswell, Ga., was 108th overall in a time of 36:15 (36:11 chip).
posted by WalkSports.com | 7:53 AM
5 Comments:
I've run the Peachtree the past two years and had a number for this year but didn't end up making it to Atlanta. :(
I don't really know much about this race- is it on of the bigger (biggest?) 10ks in the US? What's the draw?
Somehow it's turned into the biggest 10K in the country. 55,000 people, and if you don't send in your registration form within the first couple days of it appearing in the newspaper in March, you won't get in! (No online registration.)
Didn't know that. Thought the Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota was the only event that large to have no online registration. (Great insight!) Don't they start the runners in waves?
They do. Wheelchairs first, then "invited" (i.e. elite), superseeded, seeded, and sub-seeded. After that, they have 2-3 groups of runners who submitted a certified time, but weren't fast enough to be seeded (times above 55:00, like me with my 1:03). The advantage to submitting a time, even if it's slower than 55, is that you're guaranteed a number below 30,000 (i.e. you're in one of the first 3 time groups).
Then come time groups 4-9, which people are put into randomly. Obviously there aren't 10,000 people in each group -- all numbers aren't used.
In any case, they really have it down to a science. If you're in the last time group, you don't cross the start line for probably at least 1.5 hours.
55,000 is a lot, but Bay to Breakers (in San Fran) is even bigger I think. It's more like 7.5 miles though. I ran that one in 2002 -- really fun.
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