Former Minnesota resident Mike Reneau finished 7th in Sunday's Bank of American Chicago Marathon Reneau, who competes for the Hanson's - Brooks Olympic Development Program in Michigan was clocked in a PR 2:16:20.
We interviewed Reneau after the race. Audio of the conversation is here ...
Other Minnesotans finishing well at Chicago -- where racers were greeted with second-straight hot race day -- include: Minnesota native Leah Thorvilson, 16th in 2:44:28 ... Chanhassan's Kimberly Anderson, 28th in 2:58:58 ... and Angie Voight of Minneapolis, 34th in 3:00:28.
Also ... Click to other weekend results via the Short-Cut post, below. Today, Team USA Minnesota's Meghan Armstrong competes at the USA Women's 10K Championship in Boston.
Find results of that event HERE, later in the day.
Thorvilson's run is even more remarkable when you consider she was her high school record holder in the 300 hurdles, TJ, and was a member of the dance team. Her distance running career really took off when she went to Arkansas and began putting in the mileage, under the coaching of Kirk Elias.
ReplyDeleteMike Reneau is still pretty much of a running novice; his primary sport in high school and college was wrestling. He actually chose a marathon training course because he needed a physical education credit to graduate from college.
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Congrats to Reneau. Not sure I'd call him "novice". While he didn't run his first marathon until 2004 - he was a top-10 finisher in State in high school.
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