46 Complete 2006 Greater Houston 26.2 Double

Forty-six (46) runners completed the Greater Houston 26.2 Double when they finished the Chevron Houston Marathon on Sunday two weeks after running the Texas Marathon in Kingwood on New Year's Day.

Leading the way in the lowest overall combined time was 45-year-old Kingwood native Roane Thorpe. He completed the Texas Marathon in 3:40:42 and the Chevron Houston Marathon in 3:27:58 for a combined time of 7:08:41.

The women were led by another Kingwood native, 40-year-old Jacqueline O'Brien-Nolen. She ran a total combined time of 7:25:35 that was split between Kingwood in 3:50:27 and Houston in 3:35:08.

17-year-old Amanda Hayley of The Woodlands was the youngest participant to do both (in 8:52:01) while the most grizzled veteran was Spring's 73-year-old Ray Boytim. He did both in a combined time of 11:04:52.

Overall it brought to the total number of runners to 217 who have completed the Greater Houston 26.2 Double in the last five years. Here are each year's total number of finishers with the fastest male and female runner:

2006 -- 46 (Roane Thorpe, 45, M, 7:08:41; Jacqueline O'Brien-Nolen, 40, F, 7:25:35)
2005 -- 50 (John Yoder, 33, M, 5:48:13; Suzy Seeley, 45, F, 6:54:48)
2004 -- 65 (Ryan Loehding, 31, M, 5:53:52; Sheila Carmody, 37, F, 6:53:56)
2003 -- 39 (Bill Schroeder, 40, M, 5:46:23; Suzy Seeley, 43, F, 7:19:18)
2002 -- 17 (Robert King, 40, M, 6:06:55; Gloria Mahoney, 50, F, 8:03:05)

The top 10 all-time men's and women's best combined times are as follows:

6:53:36 - Sheila Carmody, 2004, The Woodlands, 37
6:54:48 - Suzy Seeley, 2005, Spring, 45
6:58:54 - Lisa Tilton-McCarthy, 2004, Houston, 37
7:00:37 - Suzy Seeley, 2004, Spring, 44
7:11:58 - Kelly Vowles, 2005, The Woodlands, 30
7:16:48 - Jacqueline O'Brien-Nolen, 2004, Kingwood, 38
7:19:18 - Suzy Seeley, 2003, Spring, 43
7:25:35 - Jacqueline O'Brien-Nolen, 2006, Kingwood, 40
7:30:18 - Yong Collins, 2005, Houston, 50
7:35:06 - Arburn Cain, 2004, Sugar Land, 35

5:46:23 - Bill Schroeder, 2003, Kingwood, 40
5:48:13 - John Yoder, 2005, Houston, 33
5:53:52 - Ryan Loehding, 2004, Sugar Land, 31
5:56:13 - John Yoder, 2003, Houston, 31
6:06:55 - Robert King, 2002, Porter, 40
6:18:10 - Gary Kutscher, 2002, Kingwood, 42
6:20:23 - Robert King, 2004, Porter, 42
6:25:17 - David Kinder, 2002, Pasadena, 44
6:41:34 - Victor Aguirre, 2005, Houston, 53
6:41:50 - Mark Fraser, 2005, Houston, 48

Who has performed the Greater Houston 26.2 Double multiple times?

5 - Ray Boytim (Spring)+, Rene Villalobos (Fort Worth)+, Steve Boone (Humble)+
4 - Evan Groutage (Houston), Suzy Seeley (Spring)+
3 - Dave Duston (Kingwood)+, Gloria Mahoney (Kingwood), Jacqueline O'Brien-Nolen (Kingwood)+, Jim Saunders (Kingwood), Morgan Lusby (Houston), Patrick Snyder (Houston), Peter Birckhead (Houston), Richard Jares (Santa Fe), Robert Lott, Jr. (League City),
2 - Andy McCartney (Aledo)+, Brian Jenison (Houston), Charles Scheibe (Houston), Elsa Kuehl (Kingwood), Fred Ward (Houston), German Collazos (Houston), Gerry Simpson (Houston), Grant Hodges (Sugar Land)+, Harris Argo (Sugar Land)+, Jim Reeve (South Padre Island), Joe Barry (Houston)+, John Yoder (Houston), Kelly Vowles (The Woodlands)+, Lisa Tilton-McCarthy (Houston), Lou Wilson (The Woodlands)+, Meg Oswald (Kingwood), Michelle Wolpert (Houston), Mike Huff (Houston), Nicolas Meza (Houston), Rebecca Watkins (Kingwood), Rick Worley (Humble), Roane Thorpe (Kingwood), Robert King (Porter), Steven (Doug) Steinmetz (Houston), Vincent Kowalski (Houston), Wes Monteith (Pasadena), Yong Collins (Houston)+

+ currently streaking