ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run 10K News and Notes
Sean Wade won his fifth overall title Saturday at the ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run 10K and until he slows down, somebody like Henok Lechebo comes in from out of town like he did in 2004 or somebody like Luis Armenteros seizes the day, Sean could be primed to win a few more.
In his second win 11 years ago, Wade set the course record with a blazing time of 29:20. The event has been won four other times by runners posting sub-30 minute times; however, Wade unofficially set the Masters course record as well. Wade's time on Saturday of 31:01.40 was just over three seconds better than the time (31:05) of 1997's Men's Masters winner, Dmitri Dmitriev. (The Russian also finished 3rd that year in 32:07 in the Masters' division of the Cooper River Bridge Run, held three months later in South Carolina.)
Sugar Land's Jon Butler, with his time of 33:45.55, landed his third Men's Masters' win in four years and is the second man ever to win the Masters event three times. He joins Russian Leonid Moseev, who won the division the first three years from 1994-1996. (Moseev was 77th in Boston in 1992 in 2:34:01 and was 64th at the Houston Marathon in 1996 with a time of 2:35:57.)
On the women's side, Cassandra Henkiel and Carmen Ayala-Troncoso made it an Austin sweep. Henkiel won the event in 35:13.20 while Ayala-Troncoso defended her Women's Masters' title in 36:10.60. Ayala-Troncoso's win leaves her one Masters' win shy of fellow Austinite Margo Braud who won the division in 2000, 2001 and 2004. (Braud was 9th in the women's field on Saturday in 40:17.)
Henkiel is the 16th different winner in the 19 years of the event. Only Joy Smith and Kelly Keane have won the women's division multiple times.
Wheelchair racer Orlando Cortes kept seasoned veteran Ramiro Bermudez from capturing his 9th 10K title while Michelle Colvard won her third consecutive women's wheelchair crown.
Could you call it the perfect field? -- Of the 2,878 runners who recorded times, including bandits and unidentified runners, 1,418 posted negative splits, 23 ran both halves of the course in even times while 1,437 had positive splits.
Of the first 100 finishers, there were only three (3) runners whose pace between the front and back half were off by more than a minute. The Woodlands' Ben Schulz and College Station's Alan Hedengren had positive splits of 1:22 (16:37/17:59) and 1:36 (16:55/18:31), respectively. The only one to negative split from that group was Katy's Chris Boylan, who covered the front half in 20:11 and the back in 18:46.
The second fastest negative split of the top 100 runners? Luke's Locker vice president Matt Lucas. The 37-year-old Dallas native was 70th overall in 39:20 and was 48 seconds faster on the back half than the front.
Only two of the top 10 women ran negative splits -- the winner, Henkiel, who was 12 seconds faster on the back half, and Houston's Helen Grant, 43, who posted a 20-second drop between the halves.
Of the top 100 women who were not included in the top 100 runners, 50 had negative splits while 48 had positive splits and the remaining two did not hit the 5K timing mat. 18 of those runners had negative splits of more than a minute while five (5) had positive splits of more than a minute.
Allison, Alison, Alison -- Had the Rodeo Run been a women's only field, a public address announcer might have thought he was seeing triple. Orange's Allison Sparks, 24, Houston's Alison Borchardt, 25, and 27-year-old Alison Faust of Houston finished in 58th, 59th and 61st places in the women's results.
The top 5 out-of-state runners were as follows:
1. Lloyd Maddock, London, England, 36, 26th overall, 35:42 chip time
2. George Taylor, Oklahoma City, 52, 41st, 37:14
3. Jackie Rzepecki, Rochester, Minnesota, 27, 48th, 37:58
4. Kyle Keffer, Ponca City, Oklahoma, 42, 92nd, 40:09
5. Michael Juppe, Hudson, Ohio, 52, 113th, 40:54
The youngest finishers were 6-year-olds Kobe Trought of Houston and Will Lord of Sugar Land. They finished in 1:17:12 and 1:26:04, respectively, while the oldest finisher was 81-year-old Houstonian Tony Lopez as he stopped the clock in 56:39.
The youngest females were Kobe's 9-year-old twin sisters Danielle and Brittney Trought, who posted chip times of 1:08:27 and 1:08:29, respectively, while the oldest female finisher was Katy's 70-year-old Virginia Mangum who covered the distance in 1:04:43.
Fastest cities at the Rodeo Run? -- To no one's surprise, Houston registered first in both the men's and women's divisions when you score the top five runners in cross country style format (within each division). The rankings went as follows:
Men's (30 cities overall w/ 5 or more runners)
1. Houston - 22 (Wade, Armenteros, John Hedengren, Fred Miller, Joe Flores)
2. Katy - 236 (Rich Fredrich, Patrick Flores, Scott Wilkinson, Chris Boylan, Vincent Debonis)
3. Sugar Land - 301 (Jon Butler, Mike Crowley, Steve Schroeder, Robert Fredericks, Lance Collins)
4. Lake Jackson - 417 (Tom Gonzales, Raul Barriga, Phillip Athey, Michael Mazzei, Bob Bowden)
5. The Woodlands - 515 (Schulz, John Maloney, Buck Snyder, Casey Clark, Vincent Attanucci)
6. Spring - 640
7. Pearland - 647
8. League City - 836
9. Kingwood - 850
10. Conroe - 934
Women's (23 cities overall)
1. Houston - 42 (Sim Maiken, Heidy Lozano, Terie Littlepage, Helen Grant, Lisa Tilton-McCarthy)
2. Katy - 337 (Marne Shafer, Michelle Jones, Karen Rosenfeld, Miriam Terc, Megan Schrader)
3. Spring - 407 (Sue Ann Bacheller, Debi Baxter, Michelle Easton, Kari Ginn, Brittany Parmer)
4. The Woodlands - 532 (Vera Heg, Katie Deshotels, Christy Abrams, Heidi-Lynne Balasch, Milli Myers)
5. Sugar Land - 560 (Cyndy Hetrick, Cindy Lane, Helen Jones-Totays, Kaitlin Kleupfel, Shellie Shingleton)
6. Pearland - 578
7. Kingwood - 591
8. Austin - 710
9. Cypress - 711
10. Friendswood - 811
In his second win 11 years ago, Wade set the course record with a blazing time of 29:20. The event has been won four other times by runners posting sub-30 minute times; however, Wade unofficially set the Masters course record as well. Wade's time on Saturday of 31:01.40 was just over three seconds better than the time (31:05) of 1997's Men's Masters winner, Dmitri Dmitriev. (The Russian also finished 3rd that year in 32:07 in the Masters' division of the Cooper River Bridge Run, held three months later in South Carolina.)
Sugar Land's Jon Butler, with his time of 33:45.55, landed his third Men's Masters' win in four years and is the second man ever to win the Masters event three times. He joins Russian Leonid Moseev, who won the division the first three years from 1994-1996. (Moseev was 77th in Boston in 1992 in 2:34:01 and was 64th at the Houston Marathon in 1996 with a time of 2:35:57.)
On the women's side, Cassandra Henkiel and Carmen Ayala-Troncoso made it an Austin sweep. Henkiel won the event in 35:13.20 while Ayala-Troncoso defended her Women's Masters' title in 36:10.60. Ayala-Troncoso's win leaves her one Masters' win shy of fellow Austinite Margo Braud who won the division in 2000, 2001 and 2004. (Braud was 9th in the women's field on Saturday in 40:17.)
Henkiel is the 16th different winner in the 19 years of the event. Only Joy Smith and Kelly Keane have won the women's division multiple times.
Wheelchair racer Orlando Cortes kept seasoned veteran Ramiro Bermudez from capturing his 9th 10K title while Michelle Colvard won her third consecutive women's wheelchair crown.
Could you call it the perfect field? -- Of the 2,878 runners who recorded times, including bandits and unidentified runners, 1,418 posted negative splits, 23 ran both halves of the course in even times while 1,437 had positive splits.
Of the first 100 finishers, there were only three (3) runners whose pace between the front and back half were off by more than a minute. The Woodlands' Ben Schulz and College Station's Alan Hedengren had positive splits of 1:22 (16:37/17:59) and 1:36 (16:55/18:31), respectively. The only one to negative split from that group was Katy's Chris Boylan, who covered the front half in 20:11 and the back in 18:46.
The second fastest negative split of the top 100 runners? Luke's Locker vice president Matt Lucas. The 37-year-old Dallas native was 70th overall in 39:20 and was 48 seconds faster on the back half than the front.
Only two of the top 10 women ran negative splits -- the winner, Henkiel, who was 12 seconds faster on the back half, and Houston's Helen Grant, 43, who posted a 20-second drop between the halves.
Of the top 100 women who were not included in the top 100 runners, 50 had negative splits while 48 had positive splits and the remaining two did not hit the 5K timing mat. 18 of those runners had negative splits of more than a minute while five (5) had positive splits of more than a minute.
Allison, Alison, Alison -- Had the Rodeo Run been a women's only field, a public address announcer might have thought he was seeing triple. Orange's Allison Sparks, 24, Houston's Alison Borchardt, 25, and 27-year-old Alison Faust of Houston finished in 58th, 59th and 61st places in the women's results.
The top 5 out-of-state runners were as follows:
1. Lloyd Maddock, London, England, 36, 26th overall, 35:42 chip time
2. George Taylor, Oklahoma City, 52, 41st, 37:14
3. Jackie Rzepecki, Rochester, Minnesota, 27, 48th, 37:58
4. Kyle Keffer, Ponca City, Oklahoma, 42, 92nd, 40:09
5. Michael Juppe, Hudson, Ohio, 52, 113th, 40:54
The youngest finishers were 6-year-olds Kobe Trought of Houston and Will Lord of Sugar Land. They finished in 1:17:12 and 1:26:04, respectively, while the oldest finisher was 81-year-old Houstonian Tony Lopez as he stopped the clock in 56:39.
The youngest females were Kobe's 9-year-old twin sisters Danielle and Brittney Trought, who posted chip times of 1:08:27 and 1:08:29, respectively, while the oldest female finisher was Katy's 70-year-old Virginia Mangum who covered the distance in 1:04:43.
Fastest cities at the Rodeo Run? -- To no one's surprise, Houston registered first in both the men's and women's divisions when you score the top five runners in cross country style format (within each division). The rankings went as follows:
Men's (30 cities overall w/ 5 or more runners)
1. Houston - 22 (Wade, Armenteros, John Hedengren, Fred Miller, Joe Flores)
2. Katy - 236 (Rich Fredrich, Patrick Flores, Scott Wilkinson, Chris Boylan, Vincent Debonis)
3. Sugar Land - 301 (Jon Butler, Mike Crowley, Steve Schroeder, Robert Fredericks, Lance Collins)
4. Lake Jackson - 417 (Tom Gonzales, Raul Barriga, Phillip Athey, Michael Mazzei, Bob Bowden)
5. The Woodlands - 515 (Schulz, John Maloney, Buck Snyder, Casey Clark, Vincent Attanucci)
6. Spring - 640
7. Pearland - 647
8. League City - 836
9. Kingwood - 850
10. Conroe - 934
Women's (23 cities overall)
1. Houston - 42 (Sim Maiken, Heidy Lozano, Terie Littlepage, Helen Grant, Lisa Tilton-McCarthy)
2. Katy - 337 (Marne Shafer, Michelle Jones, Karen Rosenfeld, Miriam Terc, Megan Schrader)
3. Spring - 407 (Sue Ann Bacheller, Debi Baxter, Michelle Easton, Kari Ginn, Brittany Parmer)
4. The Woodlands - 532 (Vera Heg, Katie Deshotels, Christy Abrams, Heidi-Lynne Balasch, Milli Myers)
5. Sugar Land - 560 (Cyndy Hetrick, Cindy Lane, Helen Jones-Totays, Kaitlin Kleupfel, Shellie Shingleton)
6. Pearland - 578
7. Kingwood - 591
8. Austin - 710
9. Cypress - 711
10. Friendswood - 811
posted by WalkSports.com | 9:50 PM
2 Comments:
Ben Schulz lives across the street from me. Our street has a few "running fools."
i ran past the Trought twins- too cute!
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