2019 3M Half Marathon Has Record Crowd, Including 191 Greater Houston Area Runners

On a day where the Chevron Houston Marathon and its companion half, the Aramco Houston Half Marathon, and the standalone 25th annual 3M Half Marathon shared the same calendar space, the Austin race – like Houston - also put more official finishers across its finish line than ever before – surpassing the 6,000-finisher threshold for the first time in its illustrious history.

3,292 women and 2,721 men made up the record 6,013 finishers, up 8.6 percent from last year’s record of 5,630 official finishers.

In its post-race press release, the event said “nearly 7,500 participants registered, the most in event history, for the standalone half marathon.”

Meaning that 19.8% of the 3M Half Marathon’s registered runners were not an official finisher – just under two percentage points less that both of Houston’s Sunday races.

Nearly 200 runners – 191, to be exact – in the 77xxx greater Houston area zip code range grabbed a finishing time as a result of their effort in Austin on Sunday.

Katy’s Evgeny Parkin, 34, and Houston’s Emily Kearney, 23, were the area’s fastest finishers in 1:27:05 and 1:31:25, respectively.

The top area master’s runners were Dickinson’s Leno Rios, 48, and Shenandoah’s Karen Ponette, 49, as they posted times of 1:29:42 and 1:34:05.

Both Kearney and Ponette were in the top two percent of female finishers.

Kearney was second in her 20-24 age group while Ponette was fourth in 45-49.

Houston’s Buddy Brown, 61, was sixth in his division in 1:38:50 while Joseph Norton, 67, also of Houston, was eighth in the 65-69 age group in 2:01:07.

Men’s Top 10 – Greater Houston Area
1:27:05 - Evgeny Pankin, 34, Katy
1:27:48 - Ryan Yang, 19, College Station
1:29:42 - Leno Rios, 48, Dickinson
1:30:48 - Richard Nicholls, 38, Katy
1:36:34 - Don Welling, 34, Houston
1:38:50 - Buddy Brown, 61, Houston
1:40:00 - Joseph Cervenka, 39, Sugar Land
1:42:16 - Cary Moorhead, 55, Houston
1:43:08 - Russell Abshire, 57, Houston
1:45:11 - Andrew Burns, 28, Houston

Women’s Top 10 – Greater Houston Area
1:31:25 - Emily Kearney, 23, Houston
1:34:05 - Karen Ponette, 49, Shenandoah
1:38:03 - Audrey Maness, 36, Spring
1:40:42 - Payton Burns, 25, Houston
1:42:27 - Briana Zamora, 23, Bryan
1:44:15 - Katherine Barron, 23, Houston
1:45:23 - Irene Papas, 30, Houston
1:45:45 - Michelle Atencio, 46, Houston
1:49:01 - Misha Reissig, 39, Conroe
1:53:11 - Anne Schuster, 35, Katy

Source:  mychiptime.com