Props to Zac Hine, ran HS at South Hadley in Western Mass, a 4:20 miler but he was better at xc, then at Cornell. Now 2:16 at Boston and presumably going to Olympic Trials. Not sure if that's a debut marathon...
Looks from his current address like he's training with Hansons.
Anyone got the lowdown, brojos?
Yep, Zach is with Hansons, and I believe this is his debut. He's young too, so I'm sure this is just the beginning. Fantastic showing from the Hansons runners. Great job Zach!
where's the rest of the Hansons? they usually send a large contingent. what other spring marathon would they be doing?
In January -
1:03:54 at the Naples half marathon.
NYC Half in March 09 -
1:04:14.
Decent collegiate runner at Cornell, 84th at 2008 NCAA XC championships, and ran 14:10/29:09.
Translates well to the long distances.
Yep, that was his debut marathon. He already made the trials with a 63:54 half, and he'd run some solid and consistent road races before that (60:48 20k, 64:14 half, 48:45 10 miles). He's another one of those "the more I trained, the more talented I got" kind of guys. 4:17 mile in high school, then reasonably good for a year or so at CU, anemia soph year indoors, then all of a sudden he pops a 14:14 soph year outdoors. Kept getting his miles up, probably did 130s a couple of weeks and a ton over 100, and he kept learning about when to push and when to back off in training so he'd run his best at the end of a season. The guy had kind of modest high school credentials, but got 80-something in NCAA cross, ran a 29-oh-something 10k and scored something like 70 Heps points in his career, with wins in the indoor 5 as a junior and a senior and a win in the 10 his senior year. Anyway, he's a super super dedicated guy. Looks like he got just a little carried away early and crashed a little in the last few miles on this one, but nowhere near as bad as a lot of people do at Boston. On the plus side, if he'd run it perfectly with today's tailwind, it might have resulted in a Beamon-esque mark he'd be chasing for a long time, so I'm betting he goes faster before too long. On the down side, since he was 2nd American, where are all the 2:10-2:15 Americans that we would have seen if the 1970s/1980s crowd had been in this race with this weather? Come to think of it, Zach is a lot like those sub-elite roadies were back then. Just a consistent, determined grinder who isn't close to world class but keeps doggedly plugging away at it and keeps getting better and surprising people.
Interview content available at hepstrack.com
http://hepstrack.com/blog/2011/04/18/hine-second-american-at-boston/
Congrats to Zac!
How many guys have had faster debut marathons?
Americans, that is.
Very good run for Zac, been gradually pointing towards this for a long time, and hopefully the first step towards a successful marathon career.
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