Weekend Update

Greetings from chilly and windy Charleston, South Carolina!

Tom Stott asked me to delete his post about a long run Sunday.  He is no longer able to make it.  But don't let that stop you from running if you were planning on it!  Simply start a new post, or tweet at BMoreRunning and it'll show up on the blog.

The report from Houston is very good right now.  Chrissie is all set up with her personalized water bottles and the conditions seem like they are going to be very conducive to a good race.  There are 47 water tables at each aid station for the hundreds of athletes, and each aid station is a quarter mile long as a result!  Chrissie also went to get Meb to sign her picture (the one of him passing her at NYC 2009 that was published in Runner's World) and he inadvertently handed off the picture...AND his race packet, including his bib.  The two parted ways and quickly one of his entourage came back to retrieve the packet.  Phew!

Chrissie's bib is #200.  From what I understand, there MAY be runner tracking via www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com tomorrow, but I'm not totally sure.  However, every running news outfit and their mother is on site, so if you follow any running Twitter feeds, I'm sure you'll see it.  They started two new ones today, @USMenMarathon and @USWomenMarathon which are allegedly going to feed live splits.  Of course, if you don't want to know results, don't go on Twitter or the Internet!  And wait to watch highlights on NBC at 3pm.

GO CHRISSIE!

Denise Rocks Shamrock Marathon - 2:56:03

Denise Knickman finishes 8th F at Shamrock Marathon, 2:56:03.  She came through the half in 1:27:11.  Word is that the temp was low 40s and it was VA Beach windy.  Regardless of her age, this is a remarkable performance, but the fact she's in that masters' category now - it is unbelievable. 

Kelly Meier ran an incredible 1:41:13 at the NYC Half Marathon.  I didn't watch the race online, but I heard it was an insane finish with Galen Rupp pushing Mo Farah and Gebre Gebramariam to the limit.  Rupp finished in 3rd at 1:00:30 (nice debut half marathon) with Farah taking the W over Gebramariam in 1:00:23.  Ryan Hall, who presumably had Jesus on his neck-uh-lace, ran a tremendously disappointing 1:03:53.

I'll post the other race results as I hear them!

Wrong Turn!

This is a terrible mistake. I mean, the guy should have been able to see the finish line but I'm sure he wasn't quite in the right state of mind at the very end of the race. ...and we were upset by poor markings at the PHUNT "race."

http://network.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/japanese_marathon_runner_suffers_excruciating_loss_because_he_took_a_wrong_turn/3907822


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