More Chicago Marathon Stats: Texas Runners

836 Texas finishers -- 102 Boston Qualifiers -- 52 men and 50 women

Fastest male -- Laredo's Benny Rodriguez, 2:31:23
Fastest female -- Houston's Caroline Burum, 2:59:33 (HARRA and master, age 41)

Fastest male HARRA member -- Houston's Brett Riley, 2:37:02

Fastest male master -- Mexia's Pete Martinez, age 44, 2:47:35

Fastest male 50-59 -- Sugar Land's Leonard Mallett, age 50, 3:31:51
Fastest female 50-59 -- Austin's Marcia Herzik Ralph, age 52, 3:35:46

Fastest male 60-69 -- Dallas' John Atwood, age 64, 4:32:15
Fastest female 60-69 -- Houston's Judy Loy, age 68, 4:51:16 (Oldest)

Youngest male -- Flower Mound's Andrew Scaparra, age 16, 6:00:43
Youngest female -- Fort Worth's Audrey Parker, age 17, 5:54:11

Oldest male -- Rosenberg's John Fredrickson, age 68, 4:55:31
Oldest male -- Aransas Pass' Charles Yost, age 68, 5:11:20

Fastest male time w/o qualifying for Boston -- Dallas' Eric Lindberg, age 34, 3:12:08
Fastest female time w/o qualifying for Boston -- Texarkana's Kristi Robinson, age 32, 3:42:37 (I originally had typed 3:32:37. It was a typo.)

Interestingly, Lindberg has still come up short after dropping his time down from last year's 3:27:13 at White Rock in Dallas. Robinson, however, ran 3:41:19 in Chicago last year (close again, huh?) but scored the BQ at Dallas in December with a 3:36:53. At Boston, she ran 3:46:19 this past April.

Closest Texan to miss qualifying for Boston -- Katy's Sean Dunbar, by 2 seconds, 3:16:01 (But don't cry for Sean. He ran a 3;07:07 in Boston this past April.)

16 runners had their 5K time get slower each split throughout the race ...
Fastest male -- Frisco's Jerry Hodges, age 36, 3:04:27
Fastest female -- Amarillo's Shirley Walker, age 43, 3:36:01

3 runners had their 5K time get faster each split throughout the race. They were ...
+ Bellaire's Kent Heck, age 44, 3:35:22
+ Dallas' Germaine Kropilak, age 46, 3:53:36
+ Carrollton's Josh Steele, age 29, 4:02:33

Fastest negative split by a male -- Rancho Viejo's Octvaio Gomez, age 29, 16 minutes, 39 seconds (2:32:13 front half, 2:15:34 back half -- 4:47:47 finish)
Fastest negative split by a female -- Houston's Theresa Strong, age 47, 26 minutes, 20 seconds (2:56:41 front half, 2:20:21 back half -- 5:27:02 finish)

Fastest front half by a male -- Laredo's Benny Rodriguez, age 30, 1:12:16
Fastest front half by a female -- Kingwood's Caroline Chamness, age 41, 1:29:29

Fastest back half by a male -- Rodriguez, 1:19:07
Fastest back half by a female -- Houston's Caroline Burum, age 41, 1:29:37

There were eight 5K timing opportunities for all runners. Rodriguez had the fastest male split in the first seven (7) 5Ks while Beeville's Eric Rivas was the fastest male between the 35K and 40K mark -- in 19:18. Houston's John Yoder was second in 19:36. For the women, Chamness was the fastest female in the first two 5K's while Burum nailed the last six (6) 5K's as the fastest.

Burum kept her 5K splits between 21-even and 21:30 the entire race, including a last 5K that was 21:14. She had a 19-second negative split overall.