College Station's Jon Minor Boston Race Report
I invited all of the runners that Spring's Bill Dwyer has worked with through Team In Training - The Woodlands the last couple of years to post their Boston Marathon race reports here at "Houston Running". (By the way, Bill says he can still use some volunteers for the CB&I Triathlon in The Woodlands next Saturday, May 6th.)
So far, you've been treated to one of those from Dana-Susan Crews as well as Run The Woodlands 5K regular Vincent Attanucci. (Thanks to both for sharing!)
Jon Minor came out and was part of the record-setting 127-runner performance at Run The Woodlands 5K on January 28, 2006. He finished 9th in a time of 21:10; however, I didn't get a chance to meet him. So I decided to let Bill introduce him before I post the link to his website that contains a very unique Boston Marathon race report.
Here's what Bill had to say about Jon:
"Jon Minor joined the Winter 2006 Team In Training (TNT) program and originally signed up for the Honolulu Marathon. He is a medical student at Texas A&M and lives in College Station. The Woodlands is the closest TNT group for him so he planned on driving in and training with The Woodlands group about once a month.
"Jon had already run a 3:38 marathon so he was quite a bit faster than all of the new runners in our group. If you've read about our group before you may have seen the term "Woodlands Rebels" used. Our rebels are former TNT runners and some guests who have built great friendships over the years and continue to come out to run every Saturday morning.
"Some will do an official TNT fundraiser from time to time, some may never do one. All will support the new TNT participants.
"The Rebels have become a fairly fast group of runners ranging from 3:05 - 4:15 marathoners. The Rebels got thier name from training when they want to regardless of the schedule. If we start at 7 a.m., the Rebels will start at 6 a.m. If we start at 6, they move to 5:30 a.m. Just a bunch of rebels.
"We (Coach Tracy MacEwan and myself) suggested to Jon that he come to training an hour earlier and run with the Rebels. He would have faster, veteran marathoners to help him to his ultimate goal: Boston.
"Jon fit right in with the Rebels and scheduled his training to include running in The Woodlands at least twice a month.
"Being a medical student with very little free time, the high fundraising goal for the Honolulu Marathon was looking more and more unattainable. Jon switched from the Hawaii event to the Houston Marathon with a much lower fundrasing goal. Jon had a great day at the Houston Marathon and qualified for Boston in 3:09.
So far, you've been treated to one of those from Dana-Susan Crews as well as Run The Woodlands 5K regular Vincent Attanucci. (Thanks to both for sharing!)
Jon Minor came out and was part of the record-setting 127-runner performance at Run The Woodlands 5K on January 28, 2006. He finished 9th in a time of 21:10; however, I didn't get a chance to meet him. So I decided to let Bill introduce him before I post the link to his website that contains a very unique Boston Marathon race report.
Here's what Bill had to say about Jon:
"Jon Minor joined the Winter 2006 Team In Training (TNT) program and originally signed up for the Honolulu Marathon. He is a medical student at Texas A&M and lives in College Station. The Woodlands is the closest TNT group for him so he planned on driving in and training with The Woodlands group about once a month.
"Jon had already run a 3:38 marathon so he was quite a bit faster than all of the new runners in our group. If you've read about our group before you may have seen the term "Woodlands Rebels" used. Our rebels are former TNT runners and some guests who have built great friendships over the years and continue to come out to run every Saturday morning.
"Some will do an official TNT fundraiser from time to time, some may never do one. All will support the new TNT participants.
"The Rebels have become a fairly fast group of runners ranging from 3:05 - 4:15 marathoners. The Rebels got thier name from training when they want to regardless of the schedule. If we start at 7 a.m., the Rebels will start at 6 a.m. If we start at 6, they move to 5:30 a.m. Just a bunch of rebels.
"We (Coach Tracy MacEwan and myself) suggested to Jon that he come to training an hour earlier and run with the Rebels. He would have faster, veteran marathoners to help him to his ultimate goal: Boston.
"Jon fit right in with the Rebels and scheduled his training to include running in The Woodlands at least twice a month.
"Being a medical student with very little free time, the high fundraising goal for the Honolulu Marathon was looking more and more unattainable. Jon switched from the Hawaii event to the Houston Marathon with a much lower fundrasing goal. Jon had a great day at the Houston Marathon and qualified for Boston in 3:09.
And without further adieu, here is the link to Jon's Boston report:
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