Houston Marathon 2011 Live Coverage and Winners - The much awaited Houston Marathon 2011 happened this morning and the United States Running Circuit (USARC) begins Saturday with the race of the Half Marathon Championship 2011 presented by the Aramco Service Company.
Thousand of runners across the country are said to gathered this Sunday moring at Houston for the 39th Annual Chevron Houston Marathon 2011.
Apparently, Ryan Hall, the American record-holder for the 13.1 miles with a 59:43 he delivered in Houston in 2007, got out-kicked down the stretch to finish three seconds slower than the Moroccan-born Mo Trafeh’s 1:02:17, but he was beaming afterward.
The roaster list of Houston Marathon 2011 will be Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colo.), an Olympian in 2008 to 10,000 meters, Patrick Smyth (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), the 2010 half-marathon runner-up, 2004 Olympic Games Dan Browne (Chula Vista, Calif.), Jason Lehmkuhl (Minneapolis, Minn.), 2008 Half-Marathon runner-up, and Sergio Reyes (Los Osos, Calif.) 2010 USA Marathon Champion.
On the other hand, the women’s race will face 2009 champion Boulet in a deep field that includes 2010 USA Running Circuit champion Katie McGregor (Saint Louis Park, Minn.), three-time Olympian Jen Rhines (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), 2004 Olympic Trials Marathon champion Colleen De Reuck (Boulder, Colo.); 2010 runner-up Serena Burla (Ellisville, MO), and Zoila Gomez (Alamosa, Colo.) and Tera Moody (Colorado Springs, Colorado), the finishing fourth and fifth women’s 2008 Olympic Trials Marathon.
Per history, three-time Olympian Jen Rhines won the women’s circuit, finishing in a 1:11.14 personal best. Serena Burla was second (1:11.38) for the second consecutive year and Nan Kennard finished third (1:12.03). A field of 63 men and 41 women began the race on Saturday under cloudy skies and a temperature of 60 degrees. Hall set the record on a different course in 2007. Mostly flat road Saturday included some hairpin turns that slowed the riders.
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