HARRA Members Excel in Chicago Distance Classic
And they sure did a lot better than Holden and I did the last two years!
HARRA vice president of Road Races, Stephen Mayor (of the Houston Harriers), 33, finished 165th of 7,279 runners at the Chicago Distance Classic with a time of 1:24:50.
Austin's Scott Birk, 43, was the top male finisher from Texas - just ahead of Mayor - stopping the clock in 1:23:02.
Twenty-two (22) runners from Texas ran the event that had been taken over in the last three years by John Bingham Racing after being America's largest - and most popular - 20k.
Meanwhile, Al Lawrence Running Club's Lisa Foronda, 36, was the top female finisher from the Lone Star State as she lowered her half marathon PR by three minutes today with a 1:47:01 finish. In establishing her former best time, Foronda recovered from an injury while training for the Houston Marathon and mastered a cold and somewhat icy course at Freescale in Austin in February with a chilling 1:50:31 effort.
Foronda is currently training for her 10th career marathon this October in Chicago. Not only is the 36-year-old anchorwoman for Houston's KHOU-TV Channel 11 on track to break her marathon PR of 3:59:28, set at the Houston Marathon in 2002, she will be pushing hard - with less than two months of training to go - against the 3:45 qualifying window for the Boston Marathon.
Foronda has run the Chicago Marathon one other time in her running career. She finished the 2000 event in 4:22:25, which was her 6th career marathon and 3rd best overall performance at the distance.
Gunning to break three (3) hours for the first time in his marathon career, Mayor is also looking to qualify for Boston for the third time ever. According to marathonguide.com, here is Mayor's marathon results since 2000:
2000 - 4:22:42, Houston Marathon, age 26
2001 - 3:56:03, Houston Marathon, age 27
2001 - 3:49:32, Austin Marathon, age 27
2001 - 3:54:01, Chicago Marathon, age 28
2001 - 3:56:27, San Antonio Marathon, age 28
2002 - 3:55:50, Houston Marathon, age 28
2003 - 3:11:44, Houston Marathon, age 29
2003 - 3:58:40, Boston Marathon, age 29
2003 - 3:05:50, Dallas White Rock Marathon, age 30 (PR)
2004 - 3:45:56, Chicago Marathon, age 31
2005 - 4:05:17, Boston Marathon, age 32
Mayor will also be in Chicago in October with 40,000 other runners, including many HARRA members as well as folks from the greater Houston area and the Lone Star state.
HARRA vice president of Road Races, Stephen Mayor (of the Houston Harriers), 33, finished 165th of 7,279 runners at the Chicago Distance Classic with a time of 1:24:50.
Austin's Scott Birk, 43, was the top male finisher from Texas - just ahead of Mayor - stopping the clock in 1:23:02.
Twenty-two (22) runners from Texas ran the event that had been taken over in the last three years by John Bingham Racing after being America's largest - and most popular - 20k.
Meanwhile, Al Lawrence Running Club's Lisa Foronda, 36, was the top female finisher from the Lone Star State as she lowered her half marathon PR by three minutes today with a 1:47:01 finish. In establishing her former best time, Foronda recovered from an injury while training for the Houston Marathon and mastered a cold and somewhat icy course at Freescale in Austin in February with a chilling 1:50:31 effort.
Foronda is currently training for her 10th career marathon this October in Chicago. Not only is the 36-year-old anchorwoman for Houston's KHOU-TV Channel 11 on track to break her marathon PR of 3:59:28, set at the Houston Marathon in 2002, she will be pushing hard - with less than two months of training to go - against the 3:45 qualifying window for the Boston Marathon.
Foronda has run the Chicago Marathon one other time in her running career. She finished the 2000 event in 4:22:25, which was her 6th career marathon and 3rd best overall performance at the distance.
Gunning to break three (3) hours for the first time in his marathon career, Mayor is also looking to qualify for Boston for the third time ever. According to marathonguide.com, here is Mayor's marathon results since 2000:
2000 - 4:22:42, Houston Marathon, age 26
2001 - 3:56:03, Houston Marathon, age 27
2001 - 3:49:32, Austin Marathon, age 27
2001 - 3:54:01, Chicago Marathon, age 28
2001 - 3:56:27, San Antonio Marathon, age 28
2002 - 3:55:50, Houston Marathon, age 28
2003 - 3:11:44, Houston Marathon, age 29
2003 - 3:58:40, Boston Marathon, age 29
2003 - 3:05:50, Dallas White Rock Marathon, age 30 (PR)
2004 - 3:45:56, Chicago Marathon, age 31
2005 - 4:05:17, Boston Marathon, age 32
Mayor will also be in Chicago in October with 40,000 other runners, including many HARRA members as well as folks from the greater Houston area and the Lone Star state.
posted by WalkSports.com | 4:41 PM
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