Houston's 2-Time Defending Champ Finished 6th in Baltimore
The two-time defending champion of the Chevron Houston Marathon, David Cheruiyot, who recently turned 36, finished sixth two weekends ago at the Under Armour Baltimore Marathon with his slowest marathon time in the last two years, 2:18:27.
Reminiscent of his telling Houston Marathon officials that the pace in which he won the 2005 event, prompting the event to hire Houstonian Sean Wade as a rabbit through the first 13 miles, it was reported in the Baltimore Sun that Cheruiyot "lamented dawdling tactics that played into the hands of the younger, faster (Yirefu) Birhanu."
It also reported that "both Cheruiyot and Antonenko threw in tentative surges, but when no takers went along, they receded back into a pack of a baker's dozen heading into Fort McHenry, near Mile 10."
Last year, Cheruiyot used a 2:17:10 effort on October 16th to win the Toronto Marathon - his third win in 2005 - as part of his build-up to run 2:12:02 this past January here in Houston.
Cheruiyot's times according to marathonguide.com the past two years are as follows:
2:14:50 - hp Houston Marathon, 1/16/05 (1st)
2:15:24 - Freescale Austin Marathon, 2/13/05 (4th)
2:14:20 - Ottawa Marathon, 5/29/05 (1st)
2:17:10 - Toronto Marathon, 10/16/05 (1st)
2:12:02 - Chevron Houston Marathon, 1/15/06 (1st)
2:11:07 - Ottawa Marathon, 5/28/06 (1st)
2:18:27 - Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, 10/14/06 (6th)
If Cheruiyot were to return to Houston in January and win, he would become:
+ the second runner to win three consecutive Houston Marathons - joining Kenya's Stephen Ndungu, who won three from 1998-2000
+ the fourth runner to win three Houston Marathons - joining Ndungu and 3-time women's winners Veronique Marot and Tatyana Pozdnyakova
+ the second oldest men's marathon winner behind Sean Wade, who won the 2003 event just before turning 37 less than two months later
Reminiscent of his telling Houston Marathon officials that the pace in which he won the 2005 event, prompting the event to hire Houstonian Sean Wade as a rabbit through the first 13 miles, it was reported in the Baltimore Sun that Cheruiyot "lamented dawdling tactics that played into the hands of the younger, faster (Yirefu) Birhanu."
It also reported that "both Cheruiyot and Antonenko threw in tentative surges, but when no takers went along, they receded back into a pack of a baker's dozen heading into Fort McHenry, near Mile 10."
Last year, Cheruiyot used a 2:17:10 effort on October 16th to win the Toronto Marathon - his third win in 2005 - as part of his build-up to run 2:12:02 this past January here in Houston.
Cheruiyot's times according to marathonguide.com the past two years are as follows:
2:14:50 - hp Houston Marathon, 1/16/05 (1st)
2:15:24 - Freescale Austin Marathon, 2/13/05 (4th)
2:14:20 - Ottawa Marathon, 5/29/05 (1st)
2:17:10 - Toronto Marathon, 10/16/05 (1st)
2:12:02 - Chevron Houston Marathon, 1/15/06 (1st)
2:11:07 - Ottawa Marathon, 5/28/06 (1st)
2:18:27 - Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, 10/14/06 (6th)
If Cheruiyot were to return to Houston in January and win, he would become:
+ the second runner to win three consecutive Houston Marathons - joining Kenya's Stephen Ndungu, who won three from 1998-2000
+ the fourth runner to win three Houston Marathons - joining Ndungu and 3-time women's winners Veronique Marot and Tatyana Pozdnyakova
+ the second oldest men's marathon winner behind Sean Wade, who won the 2003 event just before turning 37 less than two months later
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