566 Texans Entered for the 110th Boston Marathon
My curious nature - or perhaps because it "is the most glorious carrot at the end of my stick" (Nah!) - got the better of me on Monday as I went to the Boston Marathon web site to see who from Texas was entered for its 110th running on Monday, April 17, 2006.
As of Monday, there were 566 runners -- 329 men and 237 women - from approximately 120 different cities, towns and communities across the Lone Star state. They range in age from 19 (Nederland's Clay Freeman) to 67 (Houston's Nagindra Prashad, Dallas' Shamalee Haliman and Hewitt's Cliff Burgess). [The latter of who I got to meet Saturday at Surfside Beach when Ken Johnson from Huntsville introduced me to him.]
The following cities or communities are sending more than 10 runners to Boston (some of the numbers may surprise you): Houston (95), Austin (85), Dallas (69), San Antonio (21), Sugar Land (19), The Woodlands (16), Fort Worth (15), Katy (13), Arlington (12), Plano (12) and Kingwood (11).
Just over 10 percent of all Texas runners entered to date are members of HARRA (58) with non-affiliated club members leading the way with 13. Here are the HARRA members that are going from each affiliated club:
Al Lawrence Running Club (3) -- Danielle Ryan, Richard A. Peoples, Jr., Scott Schepps
Bay Area Running Club (1) -- Ronnie Schreiber
Bayou City Road Runners (12) -- Barbara Rowe, Claire Greenberg, Carolyn Parsons, Suzy Seeley, Caryn Honig, Allison Nadolski, Bill Butzner, Jay Hendrickson, Bruce Mansur, Bill Batzer, Tom Stilwell, Eric Stotzer
Clear Lake Fitness Club (1) -- Nelson Harbison
Fort Bend Fit (1) -- Terrie Gorney
Finish Line Sports (7) -- Audrey Christiansen, Nina Jannetti, Karen Nelson, Jean Leach, R. Don Ruggles, Darwin Williamson, Bert Molina
Galloway (1) -- Sally Sims
Houston Fit (1) -- Philip Trumbly
Houston Masters (1) -- Eva Luckey
Houston Striders (10) -- Yong Collins, Patti Sears, Kelley Richard, Caroline Chamness, Jackie Connelly, Jennie Minken, Ken Blott, Wayne Choen, Bill Lyons, David Waddell
None (13) -- Eva Moldovanyi, Irene Duvo, Nora Wilson, Kimberly Simmons, Tessa Hickham, Kelly Carrington, Nils Bengston, Marshall Penwright, Nagindra Prashad, Mike Thorn, Thomas Hensey, Paul Evans, Britt Walther
Tornados Running Club (7) -- Steve and Nancy Brammer, Nancy Husby, Anita Werner, Mark Coleman, Sean Dunbar and Jack McClintic
The age distribution of runners would follow the traditional bell shaped curve, peaking in the 45-49 age group for all runners as well as the number of male runners. Here is the list:
18-19 -- 1 overall (1 male)
20-24 -- 19 overall (7 male, 12 female)
25-29 -- 51 overall (15 male, 36 female)
30-34 -- 56 overall (27 male, 29 female)
35-39 -- 85 overall (48 male, 37 female)
40-44 -- 111 overall (62 male, 49 female)
45-49 -- 122 overall (75 male, 47 female)
50-54 -- 61 overall (45 male, 16 female)
55-59 -- 32 overall (26 male, 6 female)
60-64 -- 20 overall (16 male, 4 female)
65-69 -- 8 overall (7 male, 1 female)
Next to 52-year-old Run The Woodlands 5K regular Vincent Attanucci (of The Woodlands) in the alphabetical list of Texans is Austin's (and Runner's World columnist) Kristin Armstong. Yes, that Armstrong -- the former wife of 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Here is the 34-year-old's career marathon times, courtesy of marathonguide.com:
3:35:29 -- Chicago Marathon, October 9, 2005 (how she qualified)
3:45:35 -- New York City Marathon, November 7, 2004
3:48:15 -- Dallas White Rock Marathon, December 14, 2003
And speaking of Attanucci, he was one of five (5) 2006 Boston Marathon entrants to run in the record-setting Run The Woodlands 5K on January 28th when 127 runners graced the grounds of Barbara Bush Elementary. The other four who will be in Boston are either current or alumni runners with Team in Training - The Woodlands -- Lee Harlicker, 36, The Woodlands; Jon Minor, 28, College Station; Pam Owens, 38, The Woodlands and Dana-Susan Crews, 36, The Woodlands.
As of Monday, there were 566 runners -- 329 men and 237 women - from approximately 120 different cities, towns and communities across the Lone Star state. They range in age from 19 (Nederland's Clay Freeman) to 67 (Houston's Nagindra Prashad, Dallas' Shamalee Haliman and Hewitt's Cliff Burgess). [The latter of who I got to meet Saturday at Surfside Beach when Ken Johnson from Huntsville introduced me to him.]
The following cities or communities are sending more than 10 runners to Boston (some of the numbers may surprise you): Houston (95), Austin (85), Dallas (69), San Antonio (21), Sugar Land (19), The Woodlands (16), Fort Worth (15), Katy (13), Arlington (12), Plano (12) and Kingwood (11).
Just over 10 percent of all Texas runners entered to date are members of HARRA (58) with non-affiliated club members leading the way with 13. Here are the HARRA members that are going from each affiliated club:
Al Lawrence Running Club (3) -- Danielle Ryan, Richard A. Peoples, Jr., Scott Schepps
Bay Area Running Club (1) -- Ronnie Schreiber
Bayou City Road Runners (12) -- Barbara Rowe, Claire Greenberg, Carolyn Parsons, Suzy Seeley, Caryn Honig, Allison Nadolski, Bill Butzner, Jay Hendrickson, Bruce Mansur, Bill Batzer, Tom Stilwell, Eric Stotzer
Clear Lake Fitness Club (1) -- Nelson Harbison
Fort Bend Fit (1) -- Terrie Gorney
Finish Line Sports (7) -- Audrey Christiansen, Nina Jannetti, Karen Nelson, Jean Leach, R. Don Ruggles, Darwin Williamson, Bert Molina
Galloway (1) -- Sally Sims
Houston Fit (1) -- Philip Trumbly
Houston Masters (1) -- Eva Luckey
Houston Striders (10) -- Yong Collins, Patti Sears, Kelley Richard, Caroline Chamness, Jackie Connelly, Jennie Minken, Ken Blott, Wayne Choen, Bill Lyons, David Waddell
None (13) -- Eva Moldovanyi, Irene Duvo, Nora Wilson, Kimberly Simmons, Tessa Hickham, Kelly Carrington, Nils Bengston, Marshall Penwright, Nagindra Prashad, Mike Thorn, Thomas Hensey, Paul Evans, Britt Walther
Tornados Running Club (7) -- Steve and Nancy Brammer, Nancy Husby, Anita Werner, Mark Coleman, Sean Dunbar and Jack McClintic
The age distribution of runners would follow the traditional bell shaped curve, peaking in the 45-49 age group for all runners as well as the number of male runners. Here is the list:
18-19 -- 1 overall (1 male)
20-24 -- 19 overall (7 male, 12 female)
25-29 -- 51 overall (15 male, 36 female)
30-34 -- 56 overall (27 male, 29 female)
35-39 -- 85 overall (48 male, 37 female)
40-44 -- 111 overall (62 male, 49 female)
45-49 -- 122 overall (75 male, 47 female)
50-54 -- 61 overall (45 male, 16 female)
55-59 -- 32 overall (26 male, 6 female)
60-64 -- 20 overall (16 male, 4 female)
65-69 -- 8 overall (7 male, 1 female)
Next to 52-year-old Run The Woodlands 5K regular Vincent Attanucci (of The Woodlands) in the alphabetical list of Texans is Austin's (and Runner's World columnist) Kristin Armstong. Yes, that Armstrong -- the former wife of 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Here is the 34-year-old's career marathon times, courtesy of marathonguide.com:
3:35:29 -- Chicago Marathon, October 9, 2005 (how she qualified)
3:45:35 -- New York City Marathon, November 7, 2004
3:48:15 -- Dallas White Rock Marathon, December 14, 2003
And speaking of Attanucci, he was one of five (5) 2006 Boston Marathon entrants to run in the record-setting Run The Woodlands 5K on January 28th when 127 runners graced the grounds of Barbara Bush Elementary. The other four who will be in Boston are either current or alumni runners with Team in Training - The Woodlands -- Lee Harlicker, 36, The Woodlands; Jon Minor, 28, College Station; Pam Owens, 38, The Woodlands and Dana-Susan Crews, 36, The Woodlands.
posted by WalkSports.com | 9:57 AM
3 Comments:
very interesting, Jon. I am curious to know if there is any way we can tell if the 154 Houston-area runners vs. the 108 Dallas-area runners correlate at all to the respective metro-area populations, or does Houston simply have more talented/faster runners?!
I thought that I would have seen some other Texas cities with more runners, that's all.
I don't think you can correlate, for a number of reasons. It doesn't relate to the total number of Boston qualifiers from each area. That could only be determined by mining the data from all marathons and where people were from.
The other thing that you don't see here is that there is an 18-month window that you have to be able to run Boston. So you might hit your time in December 2005, but have until April 2007 to run Boston.
Plus, as our buddy, Tom in CO, pointed out, many runners can run a qualifying time anytime they go out ... so they can pick their qualifying race and when they want to run Boston too.
I am honored to be alphabetically seeded next to Kristin A. and will proudly cayy the Texas flag at the opening ceremonies!
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