Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM!

Awesome. I remember Daniel coming out of nowhere ~5 years ago but think he had been struggling a bit since. Glad he has stuck with it and is crushing again! Great run!

EJ Fernandez had a decent run in 2:14 or so, and Eric Finan made a bit of a comeback in 2:17 high.

If only the trials window was open this early for those guys.

Yup, totally doped on one major drug, HARD WORK! Keep it up Danny and congrats to Mammoth training group! Clean athletes working hard in beautiful Mammoth Lakes!

Sweet! I saw him finish this year at the San Jose half rock n roll and he looked fit as fukc coming in right behind the Kenyan winner

Congrats Daniel !

Eric Finan had a very short build up for this. Very impressive. This guy has had bad luck with injury for the past 5 years. I've been a follower of his training log on running2win for quite some time.

I see an A standard in the near future with a full build up. He can handle mileage and aerobic workouts well, and seems to stay injury free when doing so. It's the track work that seems to hurt him.

Awesome, great to see that development, congrats to him.

Remember this is a downhill point to point course. Perfect weather today.

Top two American finishers were Hispanic.

Love it.

Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.

Beevie wrote:

Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.

must be a record

Nope. Fourth post was pulled down for comparing him to Zach Miller who was accused of drugs. LRC cynicism is preserved. Especially by the mods, who left up multi-page thread on Miller supposedly doping (with zero evidence other than winning while having been slow in college).

somebloke wrote:

Beevie wrote:

Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.

must be a record

glj/ wrote:

Top two American finishers were Hispanic.

Love it.

This is a problem for American athletes, we are content with being top Americans. Its a little bit like saying all finishers are winners.

We need these athletes wanting to win, not be happy with top American!

Coach Ibarra wrote:

Congrats Daniel Tapia! Didn't even break 10:00 for 2 miles in high school and now averages 5:04 per mile for full marathon!! We are very proud of you!

https://results.chronotrack.com/m/ctlive/#23616/result/57923/25878082

This was a great race by Daniel Tapia.

Eric Fernandez (2:14:09 in 4th) and Stephanie Bruce (2:32:37, 2nd place woman) from Flagstaff also had great races.

Please note that 6 out of the top 7 men and the top 2 women at this race live at altitude.

It is just a coincidence.

To be fair, he didn't really start running much till after high school.

I wish the organizers would change the name of this marathon.

I entered last year, fully expecting a bareback slopjob

Great Job. He is on pace for sub 2:11 next year.

Looks like he only ran 14:40 in college, so it's not as if he became a stud as soon as he left high school.

I always love hearing these stories. Shows that hard work really does pay off.

Major congrats to Tapia.

I guess he was only a sophomore when he ran that mark. That's all I could find online.

Still, it's not very many 14:40 sophomores go on to run 2:12

Actually, he started running as a sophomore in high school and ran just as much as your typical varsity high school kids... he ran around 40-50 miles a week during most cross and track seasons... he was actually part of a fairly good team but just didn't keep it going out of high school and, as you said, really picked it up later on...