Wade finishes 2nd to Hussein at Falmouth
In their first head-to-head matchup of the year, 41-year-old Mbarak Hussein of Albuquerque, New Mexico defended his Masters title at the 34th annual 7.1-mile Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts on Sunday with an impressive one minute, 23-second win over Houstonian Sean Wade.
Hussein, featured in the September 2006 Runner's World 40th Anniversary edition article on masters runners, covered the course in 33:37 with an impressive pace of 4:44 per mile while Wade, who perhaps ran his best race on a minute per mile basis in 4:54 per, finished in 34:50.
Redford, Michigan's Paul Aufdemberge, who Wade defeated at Utica's Boilermaker 15K last month, was the third men's masters finisher in 35:20.
Hussein finished 12th overall. Wade 20th.
Kenya's Gilbert Okari was the overall winner in a time of 31:53. It was Okari's third straight win of the event tying him with Bill Rodgers (1974, 1977-78) and John Korir (1999, 2001, 2003).
Russia's Alevtina Ivanova, 31, defeated Kenya's Catherine Ndereba, 34, handidly with an impressive 47-second win. Ivanova broke the tape in 35:43 while the 4-time Boston Marathon winner finished in 36:30.
Ivanova won her second Falmouth (having won in 2004) and denied Ndereba from winning her fourth Falmouth (previous wins in '96, '98 and '99).
Albuquerque's Elva Dryer, 41, beat Boulder, Colorado's Colleen De Reuck, 42, by just seven (7) seconds for the women's masters crown. Dryer finished 8th among all females with a time of 37:52. Third was 2006 Freescale Austin Marathon winner Tatyana Pozdnyakova, 51, who hails from the Ukraine, in a time of 39:26.
Hussein, featured in the September 2006 Runner's World 40th Anniversary edition article on masters runners, covered the course in 33:37 with an impressive pace of 4:44 per mile while Wade, who perhaps ran his best race on a minute per mile basis in 4:54 per, finished in 34:50.
Redford, Michigan's Paul Aufdemberge, who Wade defeated at Utica's Boilermaker 15K last month, was the third men's masters finisher in 35:20.
Hussein finished 12th overall. Wade 20th.
Kenya's Gilbert Okari was the overall winner in a time of 31:53. It was Okari's third straight win of the event tying him with Bill Rodgers (1974, 1977-78) and John Korir (1999, 2001, 2003).
Russia's Alevtina Ivanova, 31, defeated Kenya's Catherine Ndereba, 34, handidly with an impressive 47-second win. Ivanova broke the tape in 35:43 while the 4-time Boston Marathon winner finished in 36:30.
Ivanova won her second Falmouth (having won in 2004) and denied Ndereba from winning her fourth Falmouth (previous wins in '96, '98 and '99).
Albuquerque's Elva Dryer, 41, beat Boulder, Colorado's Colleen De Reuck, 42, by just seven (7) seconds for the women's masters crown. Dryer finished 8th among all females with a time of 37:52. Third was 2006 Freescale Austin Marathon winner Tatyana Pozdnyakova, 51, who hails from the Ukraine, in a time of 39:26.
posted by WalkSports.com | 3:06 PM
1 Comments:
Nice job. I was checking those results out earlier today too. Had to click around to find out how far the race was. That's pretty impressive for Sean.
Hey, I was 20th yesterday. does that mean I've of similar ability?
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