Texans at Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon Today
It was an asbolutely gorgeous today to run in Vancouver with a course that for the most part was very scenic looking out into English Bay from the ground near the University of British Columbia as well as approaching Stanley Park.
There were a few other Texans than me - and some that performed way better than I did - that ran today in the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon. They are as follows:
111 17/2009 F 4/300 F3034 1:31:39 1:31:34 4:21 1410 Melissa Henderson, Houston, TX (ALRC)
1199 433/2009 F 90/355 F4044 1:59:50 1:59:50 5:41 522 Sue Chan, Houston, TX (HS)
2738 1459/2009 F 15/ 24 F6064 2:26:02 2:25:29 6:54 2328 Rae Mills, Sachse, TX
2838 1542/2009 F 109/130 F2024 2:28:06 2:23:58 6:50 159 Maggie Austin, Austin, TX
2975 1332/1415 M 216/227 M3539 2:32:16 2:29:02 7:04 3500 Jon Walk, Spring, TX (HRB)
3390 1980/2009 F 295/300 F3034 3:07:39 3:07:39 8:54 3623 Patrice Williams, Humble, TX
Not only was Melissa 17th among all women, but she was also the 2nd American female.
Melissa has been having a heck of a spring as she was the HARRA Runner of the Season for the spring edging out her Al Lawrence Running Club teammate Erin Foley.
I'll talk about how I ran later. Well, how about next year! But doesn't it bother you when you see somebody, especially thousands of miles away from home, you've seen before and you can't place them. That happened this morning.
As I was in, yes, one of the 15 or so "port-o-let" line (that is what they are called here), I saw this younger gal (that means mid 20's as I'm 39) off to the side starting to stretch. However, I couldn't figure out where I had seen her. I even walked up close in the starting queue to the runner to see if maybe something that she said triggered something.
To no avail, nothing registered. However, I remembered her bib number! So when I was looking at the results this evening, it lists the bib numbers. I saw the name, "Carolyn Harmatiuk" of Surrey, BC. I did a web search to see if she was at an event that I was at. Nothing pulled up in the search!
Then it hit me! I remembered. She rode the bus from the finish area to the start / staging area of the Sandcastle City Classic 10K in White Rock, BC just three weeks ago. On that day, she was less than 7 minutes faster than me. Today she kicked my butt ... running a 2:02:50!
There were a few other Texans than me - and some that performed way better than I did - that ran today in the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon. They are as follows:
111 17/2009 F 4/300 F3034 1:31:39 1:31:34 4:21 1410 Melissa Henderson, Houston, TX (ALRC)
1199 433/2009 F 90/355 F4044 1:59:50 1:59:50 5:41 522 Sue Chan, Houston, TX (HS)
2738 1459/2009 F 15/ 24 F6064 2:26:02 2:25:29 6:54 2328 Rae Mills, Sachse, TX
2838 1542/2009 F 109/130 F2024 2:28:06 2:23:58 6:50 159 Maggie Austin, Austin, TX
2975 1332/1415 M 216/227 M3539 2:32:16 2:29:02 7:04 3500 Jon Walk, Spring, TX (HRB)
3390 1980/2009 F 295/300 F3034 3:07:39 3:07:39 8:54 3623 Patrice Williams, Humble, TX
Not only was Melissa 17th among all women, but she was also the 2nd American female.
Melissa has been having a heck of a spring as she was the HARRA Runner of the Season for the spring edging out her Al Lawrence Running Club teammate Erin Foley.
I'll talk about how I ran later. Well, how about next year! But doesn't it bother you when you see somebody, especially thousands of miles away from home, you've seen before and you can't place them. That happened this morning.
As I was in, yes, one of the 15 or so "port-o-let" line (that is what they are called here), I saw this younger gal (that means mid 20's as I'm 39) off to the side starting to stretch. However, I couldn't figure out where I had seen her. I even walked up close in the starting queue to the runner to see if maybe something that she said triggered something.
To no avail, nothing registered. However, I remembered her bib number! So when I was looking at the results this evening, it lists the bib numbers. I saw the name, "Carolyn Harmatiuk" of Surrey, BC. I did a web search to see if she was at an event that I was at. Nothing pulled up in the search!
Then it hit me! I remembered. She rode the bus from the finish area to the start / staging area of the Sandcastle City Classic 10K in White Rock, BC just three weeks ago. On that day, she was less than 7 minutes faster than me. Today she kicked my butt ... running a 2:02:50!
posted by WalkSports.com | 11:48 PM
2 Comments:
I'm not sure that "edging out" is the proper terminology. That makes it sound like it was close.
To me, a rout was between 7th (201.21%) and 8th (189.91%)!
Yes, I would agree, however, that you over Allison and Lisa was a better use of "edging out".
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