Notes of the Jacksonville Marathon
It's Monday morning and surprisingly, after running a road marathon, I feel pretty good.
I'll probably go to the gym today and do some time on the stationery bike.
I'm also wondering how much walking on Jacksonville Beach for about an hour after the race - to kill some time since I had three hours plus before my flight after eating - helped. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a little sore in some spots but I could more easily run another Jingle Bell Run today than I did the weekend before last.
There was a good article today on the Marathon online at the Florida Times-Union's site. It turns out that the women's winner, Kim Pawelek of Jacksonville, who has already qualified for the 2008 Olympic Trials, was out on a training run and decided to finish it for the win.
171 of the 898 finishers -- 19 percent, a fairly high number -- posted a Boston Marathon qualifying time.
Just 56 of the 888 finishers -- just 6.3 percent -- who registered a time at the half way point posted a negative split. (I fell in the other category.)
Dane Rauschenberg of Arlington, Virginia, who is running a marathon a weekend in 2006, finished in 3:10:20. This coming weekend (on Saturday) in Titusville, Pennsylvania, he'll be running his own Drake Well Marathon to keep his weekly streak going. It will be 105.5 laps around the Titusville Senior High School track! Titusville, Pennsylvania, of course, is the location of the first commercially successful well drilled specifically for oil which launched the modern petroleum industry in the United States.
You can read Dane's race report, which is actually pretty entertaining (even the part where he "hit" on one of the female leaders), here.
Then there was Joseph Burgasser's time from St. Petersburg, Florida. It was an impressive showing of 3:14:18. But, wait, Joseph is 68!
Burgasser was the 2001 Boston Marathon senior champion when he ran the legendary course in 2:56:49, at the age of 63. Using the current age grade tables, Burgasser's age-graded time was an even more impressive 2:26!
Lou Wilson of The Woodlands, 70, slipped in under the 6-hour mark (5:58:43) for his 24th marathon finish of 2006.
I'll probably go to the gym today and do some time on the stationery bike.
I'm also wondering how much walking on Jacksonville Beach for about an hour after the race - to kill some time since I had three hours plus before my flight after eating - helped. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a little sore in some spots but I could more easily run another Jingle Bell Run today than I did the weekend before last.
There was a good article today on the Marathon online at the Florida Times-Union's site. It turns out that the women's winner, Kim Pawelek of Jacksonville, who has already qualified for the 2008 Olympic Trials, was out on a training run and decided to finish it for the win.
171 of the 898 finishers -- 19 percent, a fairly high number -- posted a Boston Marathon qualifying time.
Just 56 of the 888 finishers -- just 6.3 percent -- who registered a time at the half way point posted a negative split. (I fell in the other category.)
Dane Rauschenberg of Arlington, Virginia, who is running a marathon a weekend in 2006, finished in 3:10:20. This coming weekend (on Saturday) in Titusville, Pennsylvania, he'll be running his own Drake Well Marathon to keep his weekly streak going. It will be 105.5 laps around the Titusville Senior High School track! Titusville, Pennsylvania, of course, is the location of the first commercially successful well drilled specifically for oil which launched the modern petroleum industry in the United States.
You can read Dane's race report, which is actually pretty entertaining (even the part where he "hit" on one of the female leaders), here.
Then there was Joseph Burgasser's time from St. Petersburg, Florida. It was an impressive showing of 3:14:18. But, wait, Joseph is 68!
Burgasser was the 2001 Boston Marathon senior champion when he ran the legendary course in 2:56:49, at the age of 63. Using the current age grade tables, Burgasser's age-graded time was an even more impressive 2:26!
Lou Wilson of The Woodlands, 70, slipped in under the 6-hour mark (5:58:43) for his 24th marathon finish of 2006.
posted by WalkSports.com | 10:19 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home