Friday, January 06, 2006

Doing the Double - Sunmart 50m and Dallas White Rock Marathon in One Weekend

I know Texans are tough, but this is crazy. The Dallas Morning News reports that ~20 runners followed up the Sunmart 50-miler with the Dallas White Rock Marathon the very next day. Here are results of some of the Doublers (quoted from the Dallas Morning News - good article to if you don't mind signing up for a free subscription):

"19 people completed the Sunmart 50-miler (first seven) or 50K race (final 12) and the White Rock Marathon on consecutive days Dec. 10-11. The list with their times in each event:

Runner Age Hometown Sunmart White Rock
Ryan Loehding 33 Carrollton 7:11:02 3:32:35
Stephen Hudgens 50 Fort Worth 8:46:49 3:42:51
Ken Ashby 53 Dallas 9:59:37 5:07:36
Jeff Dalton 30 Fort Worth 10:44:02 5:14:16
Vicki Chazan 32 Sunset Valley 10:35:59 5:41:18
Rene Villalobos 46 Fort Worth 8:56:23 6:04:25
Fran Cox 44 Fort Worth 11:35:45 6:12:34
Bret Sholar 39 Oklahoma City 5:00:58 3:49:58
Michael Pentland 43 Houston 5:17:19 4:28:03
Christopher Horsak 28 Crosby 5:36:01 4:22:14
Mike Smith 48 Fishers, Ind. 5:09:57 4:56:55
John Bozung 52 Orem, Utah 5:57:55 4:17:37
Kent Fish 52 San Angelo 5:47:49 4:46:04
Thomas Okazaki 48 Plano 5:23:56 5:16:11
Andy McCartney 42 Aledo 6:24:50 4:28:22
Kimberlie Budzik 45 Friendswood 6:17:21 5:13:20
Frank Bartucci 58 Rochester, Minn. 6:48:52 5:46:18
Charlie Alewine 60 Diamond Bar, Calif. 7:06:21 5:43:17
Lisa Hogan 38 Irving 8:03:54 6:23:02"

Great work, you guys!

SD

1 comment:

  1. Scott, in MarathonManiacs club things like that happen on a regular basis, and those people are not even texans!
    :) It can be done. But thanks for bringing it up to public.

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