The last four years, The Woodlands High School freshman Stoya Laydevant has run the Aramco Houston Half Marathon and Sunday she's gearing up for her fifth trip of the course.
2017 - 10 - 2:24:18 (11th)
2018 - 11 - 1:55:07 (3rd)
2019 - 12 - 1:51:08 (2nd)
2020 - 13 - 1:45:29 (4th)
And when she runs on Sunday, she'll be aiming to see where she stands against the best of the 15-year-olds who have ever run the event.
1. 1:21:20, Lauren Smith, Lake Jackson (Clute Brazoswood), 2007
2. 1:22:08, Nichole Jones, Houston (Spring Westfield), 2005
3. 1:24:39, Avery Clover, Humble (Humble Atascosita), 2019
4. 1:27:48, Janessa Dunn, San Antonio (San Antonio FEAST), 2008
5. 1:28:14, Emily Dunn, San Antonio (San Antonio FEAST), 2008
6. 1:33:04, Emily Jensen, The Woodlands (The Woodlands College Park), 2009
7. 1:33:06, Abbie Harrelson, Pearland (Pearland Dawson), 2015
8. 1:35:22, Katie Jensen, The Woodlands (The Woodlands College Park), 2011
9. 1:36:38, Alyssa Crocker (Cy-Falls), Houston, 2006
10. 1:36:58, Kassandra Blatter, York, NE, 2008
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Terri Cassel, a physical therapist with a deep running and triathlon background, is registered to run the Aramco Houston Half Marathon and the 60-year-old age group mark could be ripe for the taking.
Cassel, who has run the Aramco Houston Half Marathon four of its last five runnings, has three single age marks -- 54, 55, and 58 - with times of 1:29:58, 1:32:51 and 1:29:34.
The top 60-year-old mark to date was by Houston's Joann Peeks in 2012 with a time of 1:39:58.
In 2018, Cassel had run the distance in 1:28:38 and held the 56-year-old single age mark, but Phoenix, Arizona's Susan Loken obliterated that mark with a 1:23:02 in 2020.
Speaking of Loken, who is running the marathon on Sunday in her second ever appearance here, she could easily grab the 58-year-old single age mark in the marathon.
Loken ran here in Houston in 2012 during the United States Olympic Marathon Team Trials, the last of the three times that she qualified. She finished in 3:05:11.
According to marathonguide.com, her last two marathons were in 2019 where she ran 2:55:20 and 2:25:09 in the City of Los Angeles Marathon and Grandma's Marathon, respectively.
The 58-year-old single age best? Beaumont's Joyce Gaskin ran 3:32:06 in 1996 with some great local names in the list behind her: Pam Butler (2nd), Ann Erickson (3rd), Plano's Marylyn Patrick (4th), Suzy Seeley (6th) and Barbara Stoll (7th).
It is also very possible that Katy's Lynn Malloy gives the 61-year-old single age mark in the half marathon a test.
Two years ago, Lynn set the single age mark in the 59-year-old category with a time of 1:38:02.
Colleyville's Debbie Clark ran 1:37:29 in 2014, breaking the 1:38:00 mark of Ann Erickson's that had stood since 2004.
Lynn's progression as a runner at the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon has actually been quite impressive. According to houstonresults.com, here are those times:
2011 - 50 - 4:51:29 - marathon
2012 - 51 - 3:54:52 - marathon
2013 - 52 - 3:41:01 - marathon (10 AG)
2014 - 53 - 3:52:57 - marathon
2015 - 54 - 4:00:31 - marathon
2016 - 55 - 3:23:57 - marathon (1 AG; 6th all-time single age)
2018 - 57 - 1:38:09 - half marathon (2 AG; 2nd all-time single age)
2019 - 58 - 1:35:55 - half marathon (1 AG; 2nd all-time single age)
2020 - 59 - 1:38:02 - half marathon (5 AG; 1st all-time single age)
Spring's Peggy Yetman is entered in the marathon.
The last time she ran it was in 2020 when she set a single-age best for 51-year-old women with a time of 2:58:07, shattering the previous best of Newington, Connecticut's Josephine Marchetti, who ran 3:06:18 in 1995.
Sunday will be her fifth appearance in the marathon to go with three in the half marathon.
2007 - 38 - 3:06:05 - marathon (5 AG)
2008 - 39 - 2:52:18 - marathon (3 AG; 17th all-time single age)
2009 - 40 - 1:18:43 - half marathon (2 AG; 3rd all-time single age; 12th all-time 40-44 age group)
2011 - 42 - 3:01:19 - marathon (3 AG; 8th all-time single age)
2018 - 49 - 1:22:21 - half marathon (2 AG; 1st all-time single age; 9th all-time 45-49 age group)
2019 - 50 - 1:26:26 - half marathon (1 AG; 2nd all-time single age; 3rd all-time 50-54 age group)
2020 - 51 - 2:58:07 - marathon (2 AG; 1st all-time single age; 5th all-time 50-54 age group)
It's solid to say that Peggy will at least move into second in the 53-year-old single age mark for the marathon as Barbara Stoll's time from 2015 in 3:15:30.
The 53-year-old record holder is Leon, Mexico's Regina Yamin, who ran 2:57:42 in 2018.
Just this past October, she won the 55-59 age group at the London Marathon in a time of 2:57:56!
Houston's Ute Eisele is registered for the half marathon at the age of 78.
She has finished 12 Chevron Houston Marathons, the last one coming in 2017 when she posted the best 73-year-old women's mark of 5:25:58. The only time that she ran the half in Houston as in 2006 when she finished in 2:04:38 at age 62.
To date, there's only been six women - Pamela Willmon (2018), Marsha Smith (2014), Adeline "Addie" Kephart (2007), Marcie McCaskill (2003), Rosie Elgueta (2017) and Betsy Chapman (2020) - to have finished the half marathon at the age of 78.
Willmon, who last Saturday ran the Texas Marathon as an 82-year-old, holds the best time in the single age division in 2:46:36.
It is uncertain if Willmon is for sure registered for the half marathon on Sunday. There's an entry in the Chevron Houston Marathon app for a "Pame Willmon".
She ran the marathon in 1996 and has run the half marathon six times, not counting the 2021 virtual time that is in the Chevron Houston Marathon's results database.
She would record a finish in her fourth different decade on Sunday.
Speaking of Kingwood's Chapman, she is registered for her 12th half marathon, with her first one coming in 2008 at the age of 66. The last nine have come in consecutive years, 2012-2020.
Likewise, when Chapman finishes, she will be just the seventh female to record a finish at the age of 80 in the half marathon.
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