Ongoing Marine Corps Marathon Notes/Coverage
(Go to the end of the post for the newest information!)
1:37 p.m.
Regular readers will note that the Houston Running Bloggers have two participants at today's Marine Corps Marathon events in Washington, D.C. Lisaleese and her husband, Chris, are running the full and Sarah Graybeal was running the 8K.
Chris' time has been posted as 4:13:50 (2:04:54 at the halfway point). His overall place of finish is 7,095. Lisa doesn't have a time posted for any splits whatsoever, but her overall place of finish is 7,093 (which would indicate that she ran it and finished).
HARRA Board member and Houston Strider Doug Spence was at 23 miles in 5:18:54. He was at the halfway point in 2:46:55. Another Houston-area blogger, but not yet part of the HRB fold, is Erica Smith. Erica hit the half way point in 3:09:34 after passing the 10K spot in 1:28:02.
1:55 p.m.
Erica Smith is now at the 23 mile point in 6:01:56!
Some early HARRA member finishes include: Carol Schmidt (Houston Striders, 3:59:14); Joel DuBois (Houston Striders, 4:08:06); April Murphy (Bayou City Road Runners, 5:06:24); Felix and Sylvia Lugo (Bayou City Road Runners, 5:32:57); Bette and Philip Lehmberg (Houston Fit, 5:48:51).
1:59 p.m.
Houston Striders' Consuela Styer made her marathon debut in a time of 4:19:18 (1:48:43 at the halfway point; 3:37:22 at mile 23).
2:07 p.m.
Thanks to Vic Kaiser with his mouse on the "auto click", Doug Spence finished in 6:12:52.
3:36 p.m.
Following up on her 10K portion of the Houston 20K relay team with Cassie Cowan, Sarah Graybeal posts a chip time of 53:06 with a nice 10:40/mile pace at the Marine Corps Marathon 8K. She was 6th among all 8K finishers from Texas and 77 of 136 females in the 25-29 age group.
Legendary runner Dick Beardsley, 49, from Detroit Lakes, MN, was third overall in the 8K with a time of 29:03 just behind Ryan Schmidt, 24, of Baltimore, MD (28:41) and Ted Poulos of McLean, Va. (28:56).
Other HARRA members posting finishing times included Irene Duvo (3:46:45); Phyliss Aswell (Houston Fit, 4:23:12); Michael Estep (Houston Fit, 4:26:38); Maria Camacho (Terlingua Track Club, 4:37:52); Robin Coyne (Fort Bend Fit, 5:24:31) and Tammy Blackburn (Houston Fit, 5:32:57).
4:16 p.m.
Texas Family Affair: Father Patrick Kearney, 46, of Lakeside, TX and sons Jeffrey, 15, and Keith, 14, all completed the marathon in under 6 hours. Patrick and Keith finished together in 5:57:06 while older brother Jeffrey, who had been behind all the way through the 23-mile mat, finished in 5:37:20.
More HARRA members included Grant Hodges (3:54:05); Ian Groom (Bayou City Road Runners, 3:55:11); Don Padilla (Bayou City Road Runners, 3:57:33); Sam Mack (Bayou City Road Runners, 4:24:12); Gary Horis (4:30:06); Mary Hymel (Houston Fit, 4:53:51); Thomas McKay (Bayou City Road Runners, 5:06:37); Carrie Pedersen (5:19:13); Alaina Metz (5:30:47); June Harris (5:50:22) and Nancy Luca (6:48:22).
4:47 p.m.
I've been viewing times all afternoon and currently my belief is that they are making some technical adjustments to the timing. Doug Spence's time jumped almost 30 minutes! I'm not sure what to believe at this point; therefore, I'm going to suspend any updates.
This is reminiscent of the evening after the hp Houston Marathon last year when times adjusted in many cases by as many as 30 seconds.
More to come ...
1:37 p.m.
Regular readers will note that the Houston Running Bloggers have two participants at today's Marine Corps Marathon events in Washington, D.C. Lisaleese and her husband, Chris, are running the full and Sarah Graybeal was running the 8K.
Chris' time has been posted as 4:13:50 (2:04:54 at the halfway point). His overall place of finish is 7,095. Lisa doesn't have a time posted for any splits whatsoever, but her overall place of finish is 7,093 (which would indicate that she ran it and finished).
HARRA Board member and Houston Strider Doug Spence was at 23 miles in 5:18:54. He was at the halfway point in 2:46:55. Another Houston-area blogger, but not yet part of the HRB fold, is Erica Smith. Erica hit the half way point in 3:09:34 after passing the 10K spot in 1:28:02.
1:55 p.m.
Erica Smith is now at the 23 mile point in 6:01:56!
Some early HARRA member finishes include: Carol Schmidt (Houston Striders, 3:59:14); Joel DuBois (Houston Striders, 4:08:06); April Murphy (Bayou City Road Runners, 5:06:24); Felix and Sylvia Lugo (Bayou City Road Runners, 5:32:57); Bette and Philip Lehmberg (Houston Fit, 5:48:51).
1:59 p.m.
Houston Striders' Consuela Styer made her marathon debut in a time of 4:19:18 (1:48:43 at the halfway point; 3:37:22 at mile 23).
2:07 p.m.
Thanks to Vic Kaiser with his mouse on the "auto click", Doug Spence finished in 6:12:52.
3:36 p.m.
Following up on her 10K portion of the Houston 20K relay team with Cassie Cowan, Sarah Graybeal posts a chip time of 53:06 with a nice 10:40/mile pace at the Marine Corps Marathon 8K. She was 6th among all 8K finishers from Texas and 77 of 136 females in the 25-29 age group.
Legendary runner Dick Beardsley, 49, from Detroit Lakes, MN, was third overall in the 8K with a time of 29:03 just behind Ryan Schmidt, 24, of Baltimore, MD (28:41) and Ted Poulos of McLean, Va. (28:56).
Other HARRA members posting finishing times included Irene Duvo (3:46:45); Phyliss Aswell (Houston Fit, 4:23:12); Michael Estep (Houston Fit, 4:26:38); Maria Camacho (Terlingua Track Club, 4:37:52); Robin Coyne (Fort Bend Fit, 5:24:31) and Tammy Blackburn (Houston Fit, 5:32:57).
4:16 p.m.
Texas Family Affair: Father Patrick Kearney, 46, of Lakeside, TX and sons Jeffrey, 15, and Keith, 14, all completed the marathon in under 6 hours. Patrick and Keith finished together in 5:57:06 while older brother Jeffrey, who had been behind all the way through the 23-mile mat, finished in 5:37:20.
More HARRA members included Grant Hodges (3:54:05); Ian Groom (Bayou City Road Runners, 3:55:11); Don Padilla (Bayou City Road Runners, 3:57:33); Sam Mack (Bayou City Road Runners, 4:24:12); Gary Horis (4:30:06); Mary Hymel (Houston Fit, 4:53:51); Thomas McKay (Bayou City Road Runners, 5:06:37); Carrie Pedersen (5:19:13); Alaina Metz (5:30:47); June Harris (5:50:22) and Nancy Luca (6:48:22).
4:47 p.m.
I've been viewing times all afternoon and currently my belief is that they are making some technical adjustments to the timing. Doug Spence's time jumped almost 30 minutes! I'm not sure what to believe at this point; therefore, I'm going to suspend any updates.
This is reminiscent of the evening after the hp Houston Marathon last year when times adjusted in many cases by as many as 30 seconds.
More to come ...
posted by WalkSports.com | 4:47 PM
8 Comments:
No splits for Lisa -- that would explain why I never got text messages about updates for her. Thanks for posting my 8K results -- I was pretty happy! Though there was a big hill in the last 0.2 miles. That's just mean. :)
My friend, Jenny Gruber from League City, finished in 5:11 or so. She was running with someone else, so 5:11 is almost an hour off her PR. She said it's the best course she's run though!
Sarah,
Edwin posted some things in comments while I was updating a version of this post!
Still a little concerned about Lisa's situation.
Semper Fi! That's just the Marine Corps way ... put something there that's tough (or that's what my Dad would say!)
Yeah, I ran up that same hill from the highway last year. It wasn't anymore fun after 26 miles, but it made the finish worth it!
Hope you had a great time!
Jon
Sometimes I don't know if the timing system is worth it. Now they have Doug at 6:40 something. I dunno!!! I remember how screwed up Houston was last year. What is the deal?
I think the two starting waves screwed things up. It lists my friend at something like 5:38, but she was definitely more like 5:10...
Erica Smith is one of my TNT buddies. She did San Diego w/ me! Way to go Erica!
Lisa's splits are up. same finish time as Chris :)
Some of my friends never got my final finish alert, and the clocks were confusing because you had to adjust for both the first wave and the lag before you actually crossed the start. But it was amazing. And the hill was pure evil, but inspiring all the same. Ooooh Rah!
My tick tock was only 3 seconds off the chip time. So 6:12 it was. Very disappointing and yawn-inspiring.
doug spence
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