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I'm a mid-to-the back of the pack runner who probably enjoys promoting runners more than I do running myself ... I've completed 21 marathons (with a 4:47:32 PR! in Austin) and 52 half marathons (with a 2:09:58 PR! in Oregon) since November 2003 ... I've done a marathon in 12 states, half marathon in 23 and an event in 30 states and one Canadian province ... I have a 13-year-old daughter, Waverly Nicole, who completed her first half marathon in January 2006, made only two B's each of the last two years, was the only sixth grader to sing a solo (Carrie Underwood's Don't Forget To Remember Me) in their choir program (adding Taylor Swift's Tim McGraw in '08) and scored a 19 on the ACT in December 2007 as a seventh grader ... Waverly and I are members of the following clubs -- the Seven Hills Running Club, HARRA and The Woodlands Running Club ... I'm Marathon Maniac #308 ... I edit HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and write a column for Runner Triathlete News called, "Talking the Talk" ... I'm also the running columnist for the Courier of Montgomery County ... I'm a three-time winner of TAPPS' Sportswriter of the Year Award as well as TABC's Golden Hoops Award.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Wade Shooting For 2:19 "A" U.S. Olympic Standard

While Sean Wade is the oldest runner ever to win the Chevron Houston Marathon at the age of 36 in 2003, he could also become the first male ever to win the overall crown and the Masters crown in separate years.

The women's field has been won, of course, three times by a Masters runner:

1999 - Tatyana Pozdnyakova, 43, Ukraine, 2:33:23
2000 - Tatyana Pozdnyakova, 44, Ukraine, 2:32:24
2006 - Firaya Sultanova-Zhdanova, 44, Russia, 2:32:25

Aside from these three winners, no women has ever won the women's title and then a Masters title in a separate year.

Additionally, only four Masters men have ever run under 2:20 at Houston (and I've confirmed this by looking at all other 40-and-over finishers from the years of these Masters winners):

1983 - Mike Manley, USA, 2:17:10
1991 - Luis Lopez, Costa Rica, 2:18:59 (couldn't find his age, but is listed by the Marathon as the Masters winner ... Lopez ran in the '92 Olympics)
1998 - Andrey Kuznetsov, 40, Russia, 2:16:45*
1999 - Andrey Kuznetsov, 41, Russia, 2:19:56

If Wade is to meet the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials standard, he would be only the second 40-and-over runner to do so with Albuquerque, New Mexico's Mbarak Hussein being the other.

posted by WalkSports.com | 1:29 AM

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