Subscribe free to our daily email newsletterCongratulations To Rockville Marine Corps Marathon Finishers!
Oct 27, 2008 7:50 - 3 Comments
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As my friends know, I ran in yesterday’s Marine Corps Marathon and was lucky enough to finish. What a fantastic experience.
Turns out there is a way to filter the race results by city, so I went ahead and looked at all the finishers from Our Fair City. We have some really strong marathoners in our town!!
Here is a link where you can look at the results for all 163 Rockville finshers.
Of special note is Jack Beaulieu, the fastest finisher in town. Age 65, he completed all 26.2 miles in 1:59:14, placing him 13th overall in the field and first in his division. Wow.
Way to go, Jack!
UPDATE: Neil points out in the comments that Jack is from a different Rockville. (Silly me.) And, Piotr Gajewski dropped me a note to point out that the world record for marathons is something like 2:04, so there must be some mistake — the standings on the site show 1:59 but there must be an error.
So, let me congratulate the NEW fastest Rockville (MD) Marine Corps Marathon finisher: Andrew Gunther, 33, with a time of 2:49:32, placing 71st overall and 20th in his division. Congratulations, Andrew!
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Congratulations, Brad! (and Jack — 1:59 at age 65 — wow) >
I’m glad to see it’s not too late for us slackers to donate to your cause too: http://www.firstgiving.com/bradrourke for anyone else who meant to donate but never got around to it…
So how did it feel running all those miles? And what’s it like the next day?!
Here’s Jack Beaulieu in a 2006 New York Times article:>
http://tinyurl.com/5ptasc
[link is to nytimes.com]
And I hate to be a spoilsport, but it appears he lives in Rockville Center, NY, and not in Rockville MD. Darn!
Darn indeed!! That’s embarrassing. But still, quite a feat so hat’s off.