Nearly 50 with 25+ Houston Marathon Finishes Set to Start on Sunday

When the gun goes off Sunday morning for the 41st running of the Chevron Houston Marathon, 44 men and four women will begin their effort which will further cement their status as the eldest statesman of the Chevron Houston Marathon Veterans.

With 25 or more prior finishes and ranging in age from 51 to 80, the group of 48 lead a list of 1,093 runners over the past four decades who have completed 10 or more Chevron Houston Marathons.

Likely to wear bib numbers 29 and 38 as part of the local elite field and reflecting their gender-leading number of finishes, Katy’s Maria Camacho and Houston’s Jack Lippincott will lead the group to the start line on Sunday.

Missing from this year’s list is Corpus Christi’s Clent Mericle, who is tied for second on the all-time list with Houston’s Rich McMahan with 35 finishes, but is the leader in the race’s history with 27 sub 3-hour finishes.

Led by Lippincott, McMahan, Houston’s Ray Boytim and Katy’s Arlen Isham, 17 of the list of runners below have finished each of their 25 or more marathons consecutively.

The fastest career marathoner running on Sunday with 25 or more marathon finishes is HARRA’s Vice President of Clubs, Roger Boak, who has completed his 29 Houston Marathons in an average time of 3:08:17, according to marathonveterans.com.

Here is Sunday ‘s list of anticipated participants with 25 or more official Chevron Houston Marathon finishes:

29* - Maria Camacho, 57, F, Katy - 29 marathons
38* - Jack Lippincott, 66, M, Houston - 38 marathons+
306 - Rick McMahan, 59, M, Houston - 35 marathons+
307 - Ray Boytim, 80, M, Houston - 34 marathons+
308 - Arlen Isham, 68, M, Katy - 34 marathons+
309 - Wayne Rutledge, 55, M, Spring - 33 marathons
310 - Louis Waddell, 73, M, Houston - 33 marathons
311 - Charlie Viers, 71, M, Natchitoches, LA - 32 marathons
312 - Boris Balic, 76, M, Houston - 31 marathons
313 - Lonnie Brauner, 66, M, The Woodlands - 31 marathons
314 - Rudy Alvarez, 58, M, Houston - 30 marathons
315 - Stephen McNeil, 55, M, Corpus Christi - 30 marathons+
316 - Roger Boak, 64, M, Houston - 29 marathons
317 - Robert Eury, 64, M, Houston - 29 marathons+
318 - Daniel Jason, 66, M, Houston - 29 marathons+
319 - Tony Allison, 57, M, The Woodlands - 28 marathons
320 - Manuel Gonzalez, 67, M, La Porte - 28 marathons
321 - Richard Rekieta, 61, M, Montgomery - 28 marathons
322 - Rudolph Rendon, 65, M, Austin - 28 marathons
323 - Jesse Smalls, 66, M, Katy - 28 marathons
324 - Will Hrachovy, 64, M, Houston - 27 marathons+
325 - John McClung, 52, M, Houston - 27 marathons
326 - Marylyn Patrick, 68, F, Plano - 27 marathons+
327 - JP Reed, 56, M, Houston - 27 marathons+
328 - Susan Rouse, 54, F, Conroe - 27 marathons+
329 - Ted Thrasher, 62, M, Angel Fire, NM - 27 marathons+
330 - Leonard Topolski, 51, M, Pearland - 27 marathons+
331 - George Guidry, 68, M, Orange - 26 marathons
332 - Brian Jenison, 53, M, Houston - 26 marathons+
333 - Layne Mashburn, 68, M, Kingwood - 26 marathons
334 - Robert McDowell, 62, M, Houston - 26 marathons
335 - Larry McPhillips, 61, M, Port Arthur - 26 marathons
336 - Lee Miksch, 76, M, Cypress - 26 marathons+
337 - Charles Moore, 58, M, Houston - 26 marathons
338 - Lee Norris, 65, M, Bellaire - 26 marathons
339 - Don Padilla, 63, M, Deer Park - 26 marathons
340 - Paul Roche, 64, M, The Woodlands - 26 marathons
341 - Phyllis Thompson, 69, F, Houston - 26 marathons
342 - James Tuscany, 59, M, Hilo, HI - 26 marathons
343 - Steve Boone, 63, M, Humble - 25 marathons+
344 - Dan Dick, 64, M, Galveston - 25 marathons
345 - Richard Evans, 56, M, Beaumont - 25 marathons
346 - Terence Fanning, 61, M, Houston - 25 marathons
348 - David Stephens, 58, M, Seabrook - 25 marathons
349 - Fred Steves, 71, M, Houston - 25 marathons
350 - Harry Vroulis, 67, M, Houston - 25 marathons
351 - JR Wacasey, 53, M, Houston - 25 marathons
352 - Gene Wilson, 59, M, Houston - 25 marathons+

Five men, who have recorded 25 or more marathon finishes at the Chevron Houston Marathon, will be lacing up their shoes on Sunday for the 13.1-mile Aramco Half Marathon. They include:

22789 - Robert Luchsinger, 63, M, Dallas - 25 marathons
24386 - Ernest Murry, 62, M, Friendswood - 25 marathons
27768 - Gerald Meyers, 65, M, Cypress - 25 marathons
35101 - Phillip Smith, 77, M, Houston - 25 marathons
36526 - Jim Healy, 79, M, Houston - 27 marathons