Pretty solid performance from Zimmerman at the 3M Half, running 1:07:16! One of the top Master's runners in the nation.
Pretty solid performance from Zimmerman at the 3M Half, running 1:07:16! One of the top Master's runners in the nation.
Leirbag wrote:
Pretty solid performance from Zimmerman at the 3M Half, running 1:07:16! One of the top Master's runners in the nation.
I'll say!
Very good indeed.
Half Marathon
Name and country Born Meet place Meet date
M35 1.01.06 Antonio Pinto,POR 220366 Lisboa,POR 240302
M40 1.02.55 Paulo Catarino,POR 300963 Lisboa,POR 280304
M45 1.04.57 Alexandre Gonzalez,FRA 160351 Seissan-Auch,FRA 170396
M50 1.07.09 Tecwyn Davies,GBR 050538 Stroud, GBR 300988
M55 1.12.33 Piet van Alphen, NED 160830 Leersum,NED 300886
that guy is amazing: mentally and physically strong as hell. his wife is pretty fast herself.
DOWNHILL
Keith Dowland, 1:14:27 at 52 years old. Now that is incredible. Glad to see my old mate back at it.
He only finished 4-minutes behind the likes of 28:00 10K runners! Smoking'
Paul is most of my first memory of watching a marathon... He is the guy who led the 1996 Olympic trials for something like half the race... Nobody was even close to him. He wound up dying out, but it was a heck of a run he had - you could tell it wasn't nerves, it was his strategy to take a place on the team and he was going all or nothing.
I raced him in 2004 at the Gatorade Steelers 5K race in Pittsburgh and it was one heck of a race. I battled with him from about the mile point onward - the who race was spent trying to drop one another and it was the most intense I've ever run. I managed to take it in the last 200m or so, but we talked after the race and we agreed there was no way we could have run like we did without each other there, the guy was a monster mentally in that race. I wound up with a PR that broke one from 5 years earlier and I think he ran faster than he had in recent years.
Really nice guy, heck of a hard worker - congrats to him!
Check the Elevation Profile wrote:
DOWNHILL
The hills are deceiving. There are a few very tough long uphills on the course which really take a lot of your legs. Kathy Butler even said in an interview after last years race that is not a blazing course, very taxing.
ATX wrote:
Check the Elevation Profile wrote:DOWNHILL
The hills are deceiving. There are a few very tough long uphills on the course which really take a lot of your legs. Kathy Butler even said in an interview after last years race that is not a blazing course, very taxing.
Let's call it what it is, an aided down hill course. 3 years ago I ran a 1:15 on it and I had no business running faster than a 1:18 on a legit course. I had two runners in the race yesterday. One ran about a 3:00 PR which was from the same race 2 years ago. The other ran just under 1:10 with the flu. We actually thought going into this he could get under 1:09 based upon the nature of the course.
Great race, but downhill.
Keith Dowland hasn't slowed down much. He ran 1:09 at the same race about 10 years ago.