Mardi Gras Half-Marathon

If you are like me, you drank too much Saturday night, slept in, and completely missed the coverage of the Mardi Gras Half-Marathon.
Give me a break though. I'm not a professional. I just do this in my spare time. Which I happen to have a lot of.

But it's ok anyway because you can always go to right to the race website for accurate splits and results. Right?

Top 10 Men @ 5k
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Bib Name Time
205 Shadrack Biwott 14:40
202 Martin Lel 14:40
200 Abebe Yimer 14:40
204 McDonald Ondara 14:40
260 Mike Morgan 14:49
208 Robert Scribner 15:27
209 Neil McDonagh 15:27
206 Anthony Gallo 15:38
1732 Patrick Hunt 15:40
207 Joseph Sitienei 15:48

Top 10 Men @ 10k
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Bib Name Time
4539 Robert Powderly 22:32
202 Martin Lel 29:08
204 McDonald Ondara 29:08
205 Shadrack Biwott 29:09
260 Mike Morgan 30:03
200 Abebe Yimer 30:09
208 Robert Scribner 30:54
209 Neil McDonagh 30:55
206 Anthony Gallo 31:19
1732 Patrick Hunt 31:48

Top 10 Men @ 10 mile
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Bib Name Time
6203 Scott Quigley 46:14
202 Martin Lel 46:49
205 Shadrack Biwott 46:49
203 Martin Fagan 46:59
204 McDonald Ondara 46:59
260 Mike Morgan 48:57
208 Robert Scribner 49:52
200 Abebe Yimer 49:59
209 Neil McDonagh 50:27
206 Anthony Gallo 50:35

Top 10 Men @ 11.9 mile
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Bib Name Time
202 Martin Lel 55:39
205 Shadrack Biwott 55:57
204 McDonald Ondara 56:23
208 Robert Scribner 59:38
206 Anthony Gallo 1:00:23
200 Abebe Yimer 1:00:23
209 Neil McDonagh 1:00:42
1732 Patrick Hunt 1:03:12
1403 Andrew Huston 1:03:13
210 Jason Flogel 1:03:13

Top 10 Men @ finish
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Bib Name Time
202 Martin Lel 1:01:07
201 Sammy Wanjiru 1:01:33
205 Shadrack Biwott 1:01:40
203 Martin Fagan 1:02:11
204 McDonald Ondara 1:02:26
260 Mike Morgan 1:02:56
208 Robert Scribner 1:05:43
206 Anthony Gallo 1:06:17
200 Abebe Yimer 1:06:34
209 Neil McDonagh 1:06:51


Wow, Wanjiru really came out of nowhere to grab second, while Fagan utilized a serious relax and surge, relax and surge technique in the second half.

Seriously though, is that the best they can do?
I can only imagine how much they spent to get Lel and Wanjiru in their race and then they can't even provide proper splits and separate the full and half runners on their website?
Thanks for nothing.
For one half of one percent of Wanjiru's appearance fee, I will handle this in the future. Email me.

Anyway, the slowish times from Lel and Wanjiru are not real surprising as they are deep into marathon training and smart enough to not care about running a fast half in build up. Wanjiru was running close marathon pace.

The woman were more interested in running fast as Kim Smith of New Zeeland ran a PR and National Record 1:07:55, but finished second to some old Kenyan woman. Life can be a mother fucker like that.
That's obviously a great time for her though and translates to a 2:23 marathon. We'll also be seeing her in London in April.


Did anyone actually catch the coverage? How was it?