June 7th Miscellaneous News / Items / Information
Personal
1.) Renewed my HARRA membership for 2006-2007 and added Waverly to it. (Renew here.)
2.) Made reservations for Saturday, June 17th's HARRA Summer Banquet at St. Arnold's Brewery from 6 until 9 p.m. (Register here.)
3.) Turned in my July "Talking The Talk" column to Runner Triathlete News this week on "Series and Challenges". I have no idea what Lance will title the column. (It seems on the website that the June issue is out and that has a 5-state recap on the "Best of Boston".)
4.) I may participate in a very large "Sound to Narrows" 12K in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday.
Club News
1.) The Houston Masters Sports Association website refresh continues - a team picture from "Beach to Bay" that includes ALRC/HRBer Erin Foley is on the newsletter page - and their June newsletter, "HMSA News", is posted online here.
2.) The Houston Striders have posted their June edition of "Stridelines" here.
3.) RRCA's second edition of "Footprints" (June) is now online here. BARC/HRBer Joe Carey and Striders/HRBer Jessica Alexander are in pictures that are on page 2 of the publication.
Friends
1.) Congratulations to Run The Woodlands regular Debbie Tripp of The Woodlands, 50, who finished her first marathon ever on Sunday at the San Diego Rock 'N Roll Marathon in a time of 5:53:58. Look out Houston!
Recent Out-of-town Results
1.) Houston's Francisco Garza (TOR), 41, was 20th overall in last weekend's Steamboat Marathon in Colorado. He finished in 3:28:20. The Woodlands' Tony Allison, 50, was 42nd among the men in 3:45:12.
2.) Austin's Carmen Ayala-Troncoso, 47, and Chris Kimbrough, 36, finished in 19th and 20th place at Saturday's 28th annual Freihofer's Run For Women 5K in Albany, NY. The duo finished in near-identical times of 17:10.3 and 17:10.9, respectively. It was a star-studded field that included winner Benita Johnson (15:26.9), 3rd place finisher Lornah Kiplagat (15:26.2), Poland's Dorotha Gruca (15:51.1), Boston's Nicole Aish (16:11.5) and Morocco's Asmae Leghzaoui (16:15.6). The Austin duo teamed up with fellow Austinite Cindy Salazar to finish third in the open club competition as they ran under the name, "Rogue Running."
3.) The fastest Texas finisher at Sunday's Rock 'N Roll Marathon in San Diego was HARRA member William Henderson (BCRR) from Bellaire. Henderson, 43, covered the course in 2:57:12.
4.) Running a respectable 3:26:53 at the Rock 'N Roll Marathon was 1997's Class 4A cross country champion from Houston's C.E. King, 26-year-old Brandon Beasley. Just two years ago at the hp Houston Marathon, Beasley ran a 2:44:36 to finish 28th overall and qualify for Boston (which he ran in 3:14:29). In March, Beasley was the 9th place finisher at the Bearathon Half Marathon in Waco.
5.) 501 Texas runners finished the Rock 'N Roll Marathon. 16 of them qualified for Boston, including 12 women! The lead women's finisher from Texas was 46-year-old Plano resident Malgorzata Mirkowicz, who posted a time of 3:19:07. Angleton's Lenord Burns, 59, was the oldest of the Texans who recorded a Boston qualifying time of 3:25:16.
6.) Finishing 4th overall at the Deadwood-Mickelson Trail Marathon in Deadwood, South Dakota was HARRA member Martin Guthrie, 39, won logged a BQ time of 3:11:27.
National Notes
1.) Ultramarathon Man Dean Karnazes, 43, ran the Rock 'N Roll Marathon in 3:17:56, qualifying him for Boston -- but he did so after running 60 miles from his childhood home in San Clemente to the race's start.
1.) Renewed my HARRA membership for 2006-2007 and added Waverly to it. (Renew here.)
2.) Made reservations for Saturday, June 17th's HARRA Summer Banquet at St. Arnold's Brewery from 6 until 9 p.m. (Register here.)
3.) Turned in my July "Talking The Talk" column to Runner Triathlete News this week on "Series and Challenges". I have no idea what Lance will title the column. (It seems on the website that the June issue is out and that has a 5-state recap on the "Best of Boston".)
4.) I may participate in a very large "Sound to Narrows" 12K in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday.
Club News
1.) The Houston Masters Sports Association website refresh continues - a team picture from "Beach to Bay" that includes ALRC/HRBer Erin Foley is on the newsletter page - and their June newsletter, "HMSA News", is posted online here.
2.) The Houston Striders have posted their June edition of "Stridelines" here.
3.) RRCA's second edition of "Footprints" (June) is now online here. BARC/HRBer Joe Carey and Striders/HRBer Jessica Alexander are in pictures that are on page 2 of the publication.
Friends
1.) Congratulations to Run The Woodlands regular Debbie Tripp of The Woodlands, 50, who finished her first marathon ever on Sunday at the San Diego Rock 'N Roll Marathon in a time of 5:53:58. Look out Houston!
Recent Out-of-town Results
1.) Houston's Francisco Garza (TOR), 41, was 20th overall in last weekend's Steamboat Marathon in Colorado. He finished in 3:28:20. The Woodlands' Tony Allison, 50, was 42nd among the men in 3:45:12.
2.) Austin's Carmen Ayala-Troncoso, 47, and Chris Kimbrough, 36, finished in 19th and 20th place at Saturday's 28th annual Freihofer's Run For Women 5K in Albany, NY. The duo finished in near-identical times of 17:10.3 and 17:10.9, respectively. It was a star-studded field that included winner Benita Johnson (15:26.9), 3rd place finisher Lornah Kiplagat (15:26.2), Poland's Dorotha Gruca (15:51.1), Boston's Nicole Aish (16:11.5) and Morocco's Asmae Leghzaoui (16:15.6). The Austin duo teamed up with fellow Austinite Cindy Salazar to finish third in the open club competition as they ran under the name, "Rogue Running."
3.) The fastest Texas finisher at Sunday's Rock 'N Roll Marathon in San Diego was HARRA member William Henderson (BCRR) from Bellaire. Henderson, 43, covered the course in 2:57:12.
4.) Running a respectable 3:26:53 at the Rock 'N Roll Marathon was 1997's Class 4A cross country champion from Houston's C.E. King, 26-year-old Brandon Beasley. Just two years ago at the hp Houston Marathon, Beasley ran a 2:44:36 to finish 28th overall and qualify for Boston (which he ran in 3:14:29). In March, Beasley was the 9th place finisher at the Bearathon Half Marathon in Waco.
5.) 501 Texas runners finished the Rock 'N Roll Marathon. 16 of them qualified for Boston, including 12 women! The lead women's finisher from Texas was 46-year-old Plano resident Malgorzata Mirkowicz, who posted a time of 3:19:07. Angleton's Lenord Burns, 59, was the oldest of the Texans who recorded a Boston qualifying time of 3:25:16.
6.) Finishing 4th overall at the Deadwood-Mickelson Trail Marathon in Deadwood, South Dakota was HARRA member Martin Guthrie, 39, won logged a BQ time of 3:11:27.
National Notes
1.) Ultramarathon Man Dean Karnazes, 43, ran the Rock 'N Roll Marathon in 3:17:56, qualifying him for Boston -- but he did so after running 60 miles from his childhood home in San Clemente to the race's start.
posted by WalkSports.com | 9:36 PM
5 Comments:
jeez base of Steamboat is at 7000 ft... Hurts just thinking about it.
You missed the Casper Marathon. Gary van Kuiken from the Woodlands was the fastest TX finisher and 21st overall at 3:50:57 and Bruce Mansur was 24th overall at 3:56:04.
Vince,
It is sort of why I scratched La Luz for August.
Joe,
Let's just say: I hadn't made it there yet! Great catch!
Seriously, that might have been one of Gary's best marathons yet. He is working on a 50-state path and is in either the upper 20's or low 30's now.
He and his wife, Denise, are nice people.
Your Bluebell buddy Carol Steele also did San Diego. She paced her runners and walkers to the finish. Don't let her 7:13 fool you. It was the same time as two of her walkers.
I like the last tidbit about Dean! What an incredible 'super human!' I highly encourage anyone to read his book.
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