2011 USA Half Marathon Championships

The 2011 Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon, EP5K be held Sunday, January 30, 2011. $ 35,000 goes to the winner with a $ 4,000 bonus added to a record. Thousands of runners from around the country are said to be held in Houston on Sunday moring for the Chevron Houston Marathon 39 th 2011. The current weather forecast for Sunday January 30, 2011 calls for 50-70% chance of rain with isolated thunderstorms throughout the day. National Championship presented by Aramco Services Company drew some of the best U.S. distance runners who competed on the same circuit of eight miles of the 2012 Olympic Marathon Trials, to be held in Houston on 14 January. Mo and Jen Rhines won U.S. Trafeh Half Marathon titles in 1:02:17 and 1:11:14, respectively, will be on the ground in the race today.


Join Hall in his reconnaissance mission in Houston will be Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colorado), an Olympian in 2008 to 10,000 meters, Patrick Smyth (Mammoth Lakes, California), the 2010 second half marathon, the 2004 Olympic Games Dan Browne (Chula Vista, California), Jason Lehmkuhl (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 2008 Second Half Marathon, and Sergio Reyes (Los Osos, California) 2010 USA Marathon Champion.

Women's race will face 2009 champion Boulet in a deep field that includes 2010 U.S. racetrack champion Katie McGregor (Saint Louis Park, Minnesota), three-time Olympian Jen Rhines (Mammoth Lakes, California), 2004 Olympic Trials champion Colleen De Reuck Marathon (Boulder, Colorado), 2010 finalist Serena Burla (Ellisville, MO), and Zoila Gomez (Alamosa, Colorado) and Tera Moody (Colorado Springs, Colorado), the women finished fourth and fifth at the 2008 Olympic Trials Marathon.

U.S. Half Marathon. UU. is the first stop in the U.S. 2011 Race Track (USARC), and has a total prize of the championship-59 500 and potential bonus. Men and women will each win and champion 12,000.

The 2011 USARC is a USA track and the number of rural road, with the U.S. Long distance running championships for the first time in U.S. are among the countries. The USARC attracts the best drivers in the United States at bay, including Olympians Deena Kastor, Ryan Hall, Meb Keflezighi and Shalane Flanagan. The 2011 USARC ten events for men and nine women.

The 2011 USARC will have more than 450,000 in awards and touring with U.S. athletes compete for the right to represent the U.S. team in various international competitions.

The first ten U.S. runnersearn points at each USARC race (15 for 12 in the first place, for the second, 10 for third, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1), with a final Grand Prix 12500 bag ($ 6, 000, and 4000, and $ 2,500) for the first three men and women point scorers overall.

The mission of the U.S. racing circuit is to promote, support and promote U.S. runners. Since its inception in 1995, the USARC and its races have provided over $ 6 million to U.S. riders at bay.

Mohamed Trafeh won half of the U.S. Championships marathon on Saturday, from American record holder Ryan Hall, in a final effort to defeat him in 3 seconds.

Trafeh finished the race of 13.1 miles in 1 hour, 2 minutes, 17 seconds. The time of 1:02.20 was nearly three minutes Hall registration began here in 2007 (59:43).

Patrick Smyth, last year runner, finished third in 1:02.32.

The three-time Olympian Jen Rhines won the women's circuit, finishing in a 1:11.14 personal best. Serena Burla was second (1:11.38) for the second consecutive year and Nan Kennard finished third (1:12.03).

The drivers completed the cycle of 8 kilometers to be used for testing U.S. Olympic marathon next January, when the three best men and women will be the team for the London Games in 2012.

A field of 63 men and 41 women began the race on Saturday under cloudy skies and a temperature of 60 degrees.