Houston Running: Career Marathon Finishes To-Date

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About Me

Name: WalkSports.com

Location: Spring, Texas, United States

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, November 26, 2008

Career Marathon Finishes To-Date

4:47:32 - 2/19/06 - 15th annual Freescale Austin Marathon, Austin, TX - 7
4:55:08 - 1/16/05 - hp Houston Marathon, Houston, TX - 2
5:03:02 - 3/5/06 - 4th annual Little Rock Marathon, Little Rock, AR - 8
5:08:30 - 4/26/08 - Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Oklahoma City, OK - 18
5:13:37 - 2/5/06 - 41st annual Mardi Gras Marathon, New Orleans, LA - 5
5:14:59 - 1/14/07 - Chevron Houston Marathon, Houston, TX - 12
5:16:18 - 3/4/07 - Alpharetta Marathon, Alpharetta, GA - 14
5:18:37 - 1/13/08 - Chevron Houston Marathon, Houston, TX - 17
5:22:19 - 1/1/08 - Texas Marathon, Kingwood, TX - 16
5:25:38 - 12/17/06 - Jacksonville Bank Marathon, Jacksonville, FL - 11
5:26:07 - 12/2/07 - Tucson Marathon, Oracle, AZ - 15
5:35:48 - 5/25/08 - Med-City Marathon, Rochester, MN - 19
5:39:06 - 10/31/04 - 29th annual Marine Corps Marathon, Washington, DC - 1
5:39:55 - 2/11/06 - 2nd annual Surfside Beach Marathon, Surfside, TX - 6
5:40:01 - 1/1/06 - Texas Marathon, Kingwood, TX - 4
5:41:06 - 11/7/05 - 36th annual ING New York City Marathon, New York City, NY - 3
5:43:12 - 2/18/07 - AT&T Austin Marathon (PD), Austin, TX - 13
5:44:56 - 4/22/06 - Fiesta de Albuquerque Marathon, Albuquerque, NM - 9
5:45:17 - 11/16/08 - Rock 'N' Roll San Antonio Marathon, San Antonio, TX - 21
6:07:30 - 10/18/08 - Marathon 2 Marathon, Alpine to Marathon, TX - 20
6:08:53 - 11/5/06 - City of Trees Marathon (Back), Boise, ID - 10

7 Comments:

Crosstrain said...: Looks like you run best in the homeland. You are a true Confederate Runner. Stay out of those Yankee and Far Western states.; 8:01 AM
Anonymous said...: You seem to have something positive to say about all your races. Now that you have put together a good core of marathons, half marathons, and Ultras it would be interesting if you could rank these by various criteria. It might be helpful to those of us trying to chose a future race to run.

Ron; 9:43 AM
Katy Lampson said...: Congratulations on your latest!

I'm expecting 16 more in the homeland by the end of next season! ;); 7:16 PM
Pat said...: I ran the 1/2 in Little Rock and Houston (2007) the year you ran the full. I was supposed to run NYC in 2004 but ended up deferring to 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina. I did volunteer at the start village on Staten Island in 2004 so may have seen you there!; 5:29 AM
WalkSports.com said...: Ron,

I'll look at doing that at some point. Thanks for the suggestion. I think it would be good for you and Karen to come up with your list of the ones that you've done and share them with us.

Pat,

I ran NYC in '05 actually. So we were there together some where in the mass of 36,000 finishers. It is a great experience. I'll go back and do it again when Waverly is a little older so she can get a full understanding of it.; 6:52 AM
Pat said...: I actually volunteered in 2005 and ran in 2006; was off a year in my last comment.; 7:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Jon,

We believe that you have been too hard in your grading. We have looked at your list and recommend that you use a typical Bell-Shaped Curve grading system of 10% A's, 20% B's, 40% C's, 20% D's and 10% F's.

Based upon your data set of 21 marathons we would propose that you consider the following guide for future marathons.
A = 5 hours or less (2)
B = 5 to 5:15 (4)
C = 5:16 to 5:40 (9)
D = 5:41 to 6 hours (4)
F = more than 6 hours (2)

We have been using something like this to grade our marathons, but ours is much more skewed, with many above six hours and some approaching 7 hours.

Karen; 6:21 PM