Yetman, Van Wyngaarden Join CHM All-Time 50-54 AG Top 10

The list of top 10 all-time times in the women's 50-54 age group of the Chevron Houston Marathon got three new entries on Sunday.

Two of the three were hoping to catch lightning in a bottle and slip under the magical time of 2:45 to qualify for February's United States Olympic Trials Marathon in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sunday's age group winner Fiona Bayly, an accomplished triathlete and multiple-time USA masters road race champion, grabbed the division's second best time ever with a showing of 2:55:28.

For Spring native Peggy Yetman, it was her fourth career Chevron Houston Marathon appearance -- and first in nine years.

Six weeks earlier, Yetman, who ran in the 2000 United States Olympic Trials Marathon in Columbia, South Carolina, won her age group at the California International Marathon in Sacramento with a 2:50:18 performance.

Her 2:58:07 on Sunday was just the fourth sub-3 by a woman 50 years of age or older in the history of the Chevron Houston Marathon.

Greater Houston area local elite Barbara Stoll, 58, who finished her 23rd Chevron Houston Marathon, had previously had two of the top 10 times, but she was displaced on Sunday by The Woodlands' Henrita Van Wyngaarden.

Van Wyngaarden, 50, was running in her sixth consecutive Chevron Houston Marathon -- seventh overall - and her 3:15:03 PR from among her 44 career marathons vaulted her into the tenth best 50-54 women's time in the event's storied history.

The complete women's 50-54 all-time top ten, according to data from houstonresults.com:

2:51:01 - Colleen De Reuck, 52, Boulder, CO, 2017
2:55:28 - Fiona Bayly, 52, New York, NY, 2020
2:57:42 - Regina Yamin, 53, Leon, MX, 2018
2:58:07 - Peggy Yetman, 51, Spring, 2020
3:03:26 - Barbara Stoll, 50, Houston, 2012
3:06:18 - Josephine Marchetti, 51, Newington, CT, 1995
3:07:39 - Heidy Lozano, 54, Boulder, CO, 2018
3:12:22 - Adrienne Silber, 51, Coral Springs, FL, 2007
3:14:39 - Jody Berry, 50, Houston, 2011
3:15:03 - Henrita Van Wyngaarden, 50, The Woodlands, 2020