By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, October 20, 2006 at 4:51 PM
St. Louis expatriate Margie Newman, a former KETC producer and cheerleader for City living, and KWMU 90.7 FM's Tom Weber will be among the thousands of people running Sunday in the Chicago Marathon.
This is the third marathon for Weber, a Chicago native. He completed both the St. Louis and the Honolulu Marathons back in 2005. He estimates he'll finish the grueling 26.2-mile run in about five and a half hours (If it was us, try 5 and a half days!).
Newman's been chronicling her intense training on her blog, www.MargieNewman.blogspot.com. "I'm definitely excited," she wrote today. "I'm also a little overwhelmed at the concept, but at the same time it's quite simple. I'll go out there and do exactly what I've trained to do for the last six months."
Good luck to both of these athletes. Represent the Lou with pride!
UPDATE: Congratulations, Margie and Tom! They finished! From Margie's blog:
I had a GREAT time on what has got to be the longest moving party anywhere. (That's 26.2 miles, folks.)
I finished in 5:51 (Less than 5:30 if you net out the lengthy-due-to-lines bathroom breaks taken cumulatively by my group).
It was colder than cold, but we dealt. There was no Wall. I was ready to dig deep in the post-20-mile stretch, which is legendarily tough.
Amazingly, the last five miles were actually my strongest and fastest.
I never want to see another drop of Gatorade or PowerGel.
Thanks to Alan Brunettin for this photo of the two at the finish line.
UPDATE 2: Thank goodness our St. Louis runners didn't finish the race the way the actual winner did. Check out this video...
This is the third marathon for Weber, a Chicago native. He completed both the St. Louis and the Honolulu Marathons back in 2005. He estimates he'll finish the grueling 26.2-mile run in about five and a half hours (If it was us, try 5 and a half days!).Newman's been chronicling her intense training on her blog, www.MargieNewman.blogspot.com. "I'm definitely excited," she wrote today. "I'm also a little overwhelmed at the concept, but at the same time it's quite simple. I'll go out there and do exactly what I've trained to do for the last six months."
Good luck to both of these athletes. Represent the Lou with pride!
UPDATE: Congratulations, Margie and Tom! They finished! From Margie's blog:I had a GREAT time on what has got to be the longest moving party anywhere. (That's 26.2 miles, folks.)
I finished in 5:51 (Less than 5:30 if you net out the lengthy-due-to-lines bathroom breaks taken cumulatively by my group).
It was colder than cold, but we dealt. There was no Wall. I was ready to dig deep in the post-20-mile stretch, which is legendarily tough.
Amazingly, the last five miles were actually my strongest and fastest.
I never want to see another drop of Gatorade or PowerGel.
Thanks to Alan Brunettin for this photo of the two at the finish line.
UPDATE 2: Thank goodness our St. Louis runners didn't finish the race the way the actual winner did. Check out this video...
Labels: Sports
2 Comments:
Thanks for the props, Antonio!
And Tom, don't look back, because I'm on your heels!
10/21/2006 11:24 AM
OH MY GOD! That video is so horrible... and HILARIOUS!
10/23/2006 9:47 AM
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