Philly results from today

A pair of Running Red Foxes did well down in Philly today.

In the half marathon, Mike Rolek (class of 08) blitzed the half marathon in 1:09:52. He was eighth overall out of 7,188 finishers. Rolek checked in Sunday morning. He was not pleased and was hoping for better. A blazing 15:00 for 3 miles was a bit too aggressive to start. But Mike had been under the weather for a few weeks leading up to the race. Bad combo. Still, a solid performance and a sub-1:10 for 13.1 miles. Nicely done. BRO.

In the full marathon, current team sophomore Luke Shane ran a personal-best time of 3:08:17 and qualified for the Boston Marathon. Luke was 396th overall out of 7,464 finishers and he was seventh in the 15-19 age group. He improved on his PR by a full 15 minutes. Like Rolek, he was hoping for slightly faster but still achieved his goal of a Boston qualifier. Nicely done!

Unfortunately for Luke, the 2010 Boston Marathon closed out a few weeks before Philly, so he'll have to wait till 2011 to run the famous race. Memo to Luke: Your young. You have many more Bostons in front of you, pal.