Negative Splits at the Houston Marathon
12.6 % of the top 250 male and female runners -- 63 of 500 -- negative splitted the back half of last Sunday's Chevron Houston Marathon. And more women composed negative splits than the men -- outscoring them 35 to 28!
The top 250 male and female runners included gun times to 3:16:10 for the men and 3:54:01 for the women.
The best negative split in the men's group belonged to the 146th overall finisher Jonathan Gillis of Prairieville, Louisiana. Gillis, 21, covered the front half in 1:37:45 then blistered the back half in 1:27:40 for a 10:05 difference - and overall time of 3:05:25. The women's honor belonged to Omaha, Nebraska's Jennifer Lundberg, 25. She went through the front half in 1:54:09 then posted a 1:47:03 on the back half to yield a 7:06 difference and a 3:41:12 overall time - finishing 928th overall and 160th among the women.
11 male and 28 female runners had positive splits greater than 30 seconds a mile (approximately 13 minutes). The hard luck winners of the worst positive splits were to two locals -- Alejandro Zuniga (TOR), 25, of the Conroe Elite squad made up of Clint Sherrouse and Cesar Casarrubias and Allison Nadolski (BCRR), 28, of Houston.
Despite the back half difference of 29:30 (1:49:33 to 1:20:03 in the front half), Zuniga still qualified for Boston with a 3:09:36 - just inside the 3:10 standard.
However, for Nadolski, 6th in Open Women in the HARRA Fall Runner of the Season competition prior to the marathon, Boston slipped out of reach in the back half as she charted a 2:14:21 to go with the 1:37:30 front half effort for a total time of 3:51:51 (short of the 3:40 standard).
The top 250 male and female runners included gun times to 3:16:10 for the men and 3:54:01 for the women.
The best negative split in the men's group belonged to the 146th overall finisher Jonathan Gillis of Prairieville, Louisiana. Gillis, 21, covered the front half in 1:37:45 then blistered the back half in 1:27:40 for a 10:05 difference - and overall time of 3:05:25. The women's honor belonged to Omaha, Nebraska's Jennifer Lundberg, 25. She went through the front half in 1:54:09 then posted a 1:47:03 on the back half to yield a 7:06 difference and a 3:41:12 overall time - finishing 928th overall and 160th among the women.
11 male and 28 female runners had positive splits greater than 30 seconds a mile (approximately 13 minutes). The hard luck winners of the worst positive splits were to two locals -- Alejandro Zuniga (TOR), 25, of the Conroe Elite squad made up of Clint Sherrouse and Cesar Casarrubias and Allison Nadolski (BCRR), 28, of Houston.
Despite the back half difference of 29:30 (1:49:33 to 1:20:03 in the front half), Zuniga still qualified for Boston with a 3:09:36 - just inside the 3:10 standard.
However, for Nadolski, 6th in Open Women in the HARRA Fall Runner of the Season competition prior to the marathon, Boston slipped out of reach in the back half as she charted a 2:14:21 to go with the 1:37:30 front half effort for a total time of 3:51:51 (short of the 3:40 standard).
posted by WalkSports.com | 7:12 AM
1 Comments:
Yes, I was provided some special access by Megan Mastel from a media standpoint that gave me that information.
But it didn't give me access to all of the data of all of the runners as I'm sure that there was no print / electronic media that would want that.
Well, I'm just a tad bit different. :)
As far as Francisco goes, I wonder if the miles caught up with him. I think I saw that he was doing some of the Austin Distance Challenge events too. Maybe Jack McClintic can answer that.
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