Houston Running: HARRA Spring/Fall Series Individual Race Streaks

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

HARRA Spring/Fall Series Individual Race Streaks

Prior to last Saturday's Buffalo Wallow 6K cross country race, the opening race of the 2006 HARRA Spring Series, 41-year-old Houston Strider Martin Stupel had a streak in which he had appeared in 24 consecutive individual HARRA Spring or Fall Series races that dated back to the start of the Fall 2003 season.

The second longest women's streak of 15 consecutive HARRA series races also went by the wayside when another Strider, Jackie Connelly, 42, failed to race on Saturday.

With their finishes on Saturday (and using Roger Boak's Runner of the Season data on the HARRA website), the following runners have the longest active consecutive race finish streaks:

17 -- Rosemarie Schmandt, BCRR; Matthew Nicol, BCRR; Mark Conran, BCRR
(The LP Run in Spring '04, all races in Fall '04, Spring '05, Fall '05 and Saturday's 6K)
16 -- Eric Faria, BCRR; Eddie Rodriguez, BCRR
(All races in Fall '04, Spring '05, Fall '05 and Saturday's 6K)
12 -- Kathleen Mahon, BCRR
(The Marathon in Fall '04, all races in Spring and Fall '05 and Saturday's 6K)
9 -- Chris Boylan, HS
(The 5K, 8K and LP Run in Spring '05, all races in Fall '05 and Saturday's 6K)
7 -- James Leonard, ALRC; Jack Lippincott, TTC;
(The LP Run in Spring '05, all races in Fall '05 and Saturday's 6K)
6 -- Bruce Mansur, BCRR; Fred Steves, BCRR; Thomas King, Jr., HS; Jeff Eisele, TOR; Yong Collins, HS; Sandy Junn, BARC; Catherine Fulford, BARC
(All races in Fall '05 and Saturday's 6K)

2 Comments:

Sam said...: Jon,
I just got word that the 6k course actually turned out to be 6.3k. Have you heard that? Just curious.
Sam; 8:19 AM
Anonymous said...: Sam,

Course was advised to be 6.3k last year, but they made some changes at the last minute due to some inpassable spots.

This year's course was definitely different, a bit simpler and I believe the true 2k loop they used for the the 2003 USA Cross Country Championships.

Steeeve; 8:57 AM