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Meb and Magdelena Take US Halfs in PBs!, Chevron Houston Has 2 New course Records!, Comments by Larry Eder, Release

Larry EderbyLarry Eder
January 18, 2009
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Well, Race Director Steve Karpas must be a happy guy! Two course records on the Chevron Houston Marathon, and in the Aramco Half Marathon, which hosted the
US Half marathon champs, Meb Keflizighi and Magdelena Lewy Boulet both set
personal bests as they won the half marathon!


Meb is Back!
Meb Keflizighi is one of our brightest stars in U.S. distance running. His 10,000 meter record, 27:13.98, set at Stanford in 2001, his fifteen previous national championships, from Olympic Trials, to track to cross country championchips are well known. His brilliant, repeat, brilliant, silver medal in 2004, at the Olympic marathon, in the hot box of Athens, Greece is something I will never forget. Meb’s move through the streets of Athens, over the last four miles gave the US its first Olympic medal for men since Frank Shorter in 1976.
In November 2008, Meb came oh so close to the US marathon team, but his fitness was just not there, after some injury setbacks. He competed in the Olympic Trials 10,000 meters, running 13th for 28:39.2, on four and one half weeks of training. His 61.25, taking the US champs, and winning by seven seconds over Dathn Ritzenheim shows that Meb is back and his fitness is back!
Magdelena Lewy Boulet, a fixture in California and in California Track & Running News, made the news last spring in her second place Olympic Trials race. If not for an errant Chinese bus door, Magdelena might have finished the Olympic marathon, but her fitness is back and in her first US title, she set a new half marathon personal best!
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(photos courtesy of PhotoRun.net, Victah Sailer and Lisa Coniglio).
Deriba Merga Shatters 20-year-old Course Record in
37th running of Chevron Houston Marathon
Teyba Erkesso eclipses women’s marathon standard by 22 seconds

HOUSTON, Jan. 18, 2009 – Ethiopia’s Deriba Merga broke the 20-year-old Chevron Houston Marathon course record by more than two minutes en route to winning the 37th annual race with the fastest marathon run in Texas.
Aided in the early stages of the race by three pacesetters, Merga, 28, set a blistering pace, which, at mile 18, found him in range of running the fastest marathon ever on U.S. soil. When the final pacesetter stepped off the course after mile 17, Merga ran solo to hit the finish line in 2:07:52, breaking the course record of 2:10:04 set by Richard Kaitany (KEN) in 1989.
“I really tried to get the record,” Merga said through a translator of his attempt to run under 2:05:42, the fastest marathon run in the U.S. by Khalid Khannouchi in 1999. “I can run better next year.”
Merga’s winning time was nearly four minutes faster than runner-up Benson Cheruiyot (KEN), who ran 2:11:33. Yuriy Abramov (RUS) finished third in 2:12:21.
The course record in the women’s race also fell, as Teyba Erkesso (ETH) made it an Ethiopian sweep of the marathon titles. Running her debut marathon, the 26-year-old Erkesso won in 2:24:18, 22 seconds faster than the time fellow Ethiopian and training partner, Dire Tune, ran in Houston in 2008. Erkesso’s time also set a new marathon standard for Texas.
Romania’s Nuta Olaru finished second in 2:27:25, a time that would have won all but two previous women’s marathons in Houston, while Lioudmila Kortchaguina of Canada was third in 2:30:43.
Both Merga and Erkesso earned $35,000 for their victories and bonuses of $10,000 for the course records.
Keflezighi, Boulet set personal bests en route to USA titles
Meb Keflezighi (San Diego, Calif.) rebounded from an injury-plagued 2008 to win the 2009 USA Half Marathon Championships, hosted by the Aramco Houston Half Marathon.
Keflezighi, 33, who suffered a serious hip-flexor injury following the 2008 Olympic Trials Marathon, took the lead within the first mile of the race and ran to the finish virtually unchallenged to win his first U.S. championship since 2007.
“I’ve won 15 or 16 national championships, but this one is the most special,” Keflezighi said after setting a personal half-marathon record by three seconds. “It feels good to be healthy again.”
Dathan Ritzenhein (Eugene, Ore.), the race’s No. 1 seed, was second in 1:01:35. Brett Gotcher (Flagstaff, Ariz.) was third in 1:02:09, which established a personal record by nearly two minutes.
Magdalena Boulet (Oakland, Calif.) broke from a pack of about five at mile 10 and went on to win the women’s USA Half Marathon Championships in 1:11:47, 19 seconds in front of second-place finisher Kelly Jaske.
The victory earned Boulet, a naturalized citizen born in Poland, her first national title. Jaske produced the surprise performance of the race. While unable to track down Boulet late in the race, Jaske’s runner-up finish came in her first U.S. championship road race. Colleen De Reuck (Boulder, Colo.), the 2004 Aramco Houston Half Marathon champion, was third in 1:12:16.
Including participants in the EP5K, more than 22,000 runners competed in the three Chevron Houston Marathon weekend events, establishing a participation record for the event for the eighth consecutive year.
Runners in this year’s race are expected to raise $1.5 million for 45 charities as part of the event’s Run for a Reason program.
The Chevron Houston Marathon, a Running USA founding member, is the nation’s premier winter marathon, annually attracting participants from all 50 U.S. states and nearly 30 foreign countries. In 2008, more than 23,000 runners took part in four marathon weekend events (marathon, half marathon, 5K and children’s run). The Chevron Houston Marathon offers the only closed marathon course in Texas and is ranked among the top five in the nation by the Ultimate Guide to Marathons for fastest course, organization and crowd support. More than 5,000 volunteers organize the race, which is Houston’s largest single-day sporting event.
More information is available online at www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com or by calling 713-957-3453.
Chevron Houston Marathon, Houston, TX, Sunday, January 18, 2009, MARATHON AWARD RESULTS ( top ten men and women, for Chevron Marathon and Aramco
Half Marathon

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MALE OPEN AWARD WINNERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bib Name Ctz Guntime Pace
===== ================================== === ======== =====
2M Deriba Merga ETH 2:07:52 4:53
6M Benson Cheruiyot KEN 2:11:33 5:02
5M Yuriy Abramov RUS 2:12:21 5:04
13M Augustus Kavutu KEN 2:16:10 5:12
7M Andrew Smith CAN 2:16:14 5:12
8M Giitah Macharia CAN 2:21:27 5:24
9M Genna Tufa ETH 2:24:32 5:31
202 Martin Kjall-Ohlsson NOR 2:26:31 5:36
33M Mindaugas Pukstas LTH 2:27:32 5:38
207 Timmy Parr USA 2:28:21 5:40
Number of records: 10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FEMALE OPEN AWARD WINNERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bib Name Ctz Guntime Pace
===== ================================== === ======== =====
2F Teyba Erkesso ETH 2:24:18 5:31
3F Nuta Olaru ROM 2:27:25 5:38
6F Lioudmila Kortchaguina CAN 2:30:43 5:46
1F Yulia Gromova RUS 2:31:28 5:47
4F Amane Gobena ETH 2:32:06 5:49
7F Mary Akor USA 2:37:54 6:02
5F Everlyne Lagat KEN 2:42:14 6:12
204 Vanessa Hunter USA 2:42:26 6:12
9F Heidrun Diakoumopoulos GRC 2:59:00 6:50
884 Samantha Kirby USA 3:01:09 6:55
Number of records: 10
Chevron Houston Marathon
Houston, TX
Sunday, January 18, 2009
HALF MARATHON AWARD RESULTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MALE OPEN AWARD WINNERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bib Name Ctz Guntime Pace
===== ================================== === ======== =====
3M Meb Keflezighi USA 1:01:25 4:42
1M Dathan Ritzenhein USA 1:01:35 4:42
12M Brett Gotcher USA 1:02:09 4:45
6M Andrew Carlson USA 1:02:21 4:46
2M Brian Sell USA 1:02:36 4:47
7M Fasil Bizuneh USA 1:02:40 4:47
22M Antonio Vega USA 1:02:55 4:49
4M Ian Dobson USA 1:03:12 4:50
38M Justin Young USA 1:03:25 4:51
8M Fernando Cabada USA 1:03:31 4:51
Number of records: 10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FEMALE OPEN AWARD WINNERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bib Name Ctz Guntime Pace
===== ================================== === ======== =====
3F Magdalena Boulet USA 1:11:47 5:29
13F Kelly Jaske USA 1:12:06 5:31
4F Colleen De Reuck USA 1:12:16 5:31
2F Desiree Davila USA 1:12:24 5:32
10F Amy Rudolph USA 1:12:35 5:33
11F Melissa White USA 1:12:40 5:33
5F Kristen Nicolini USA 1:12:41 5:33
18F Lindsey Anderson USA 1:13:11 5:36
6F Sara Slattery USA 1:13:23 5:37
7F Tara Storage USA 1:13:51 5:39
Number of records: 10
Special thanks, Victah Sailer and Lisa Coniglio of Photo Run
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