Welcome to todays fifth annual Exygon & Baptist Hospitals Gusher Marathon, the Southeast Texas Medical Associates

Half Marathon and Kinsel Ford 5K ! Todays event is produced by the Sports Society for American Health, which also brings you the Daises & Dragons Duathlon for Kids (on Saturday, May 24th at the Butch Thomas Educational Support Center), the Sabine Causeway 5K (on Friday, August 22nd), and the Pleasure Island Bridge Half Marathon, 10K and 2-Mile races (on Saturday, November 8th). 7:05 Exygon warm up for the runners 7:15 Call half marathoners and marathoners to enter staging area. Look at pace boards to their left to estimate their minute per mile pace to determine where to line up. (Our pacers today will be in orange shirts and they are carrying pace signs with their goal finish time. (Half marathon pacers 1:45 Jorge Guevara; 1:50 Tony Roman; 1:57 Randy Becker; 2:00 Christopher McDermand; 2:20 Jennifer Kimble; 2:10 Steve Ton and 2:30 Laura Euckert ----- Marathon pacers 4:00 Brian Corbin; 4:30 Brandon Vallair; 5:30 Marie Dempsey and 5:45 to 6:00 veteran ultramarathoner Laz West) 7:20 Flag Ceremony Fire Department Ladder Truck will be displaying the American flag. 7:21 National Anthem Katie Celli 7:23 Invocation Ken Miller 7:24 Vanessa Holmes to introduce Olympian Jeff Galloway. 7:26 If not a few words from the title sponsors, Exygon and Baptist Hospitals. Would like to thank our sponsors for todays races: Exygon and Baptist Hospitals for the marathon, Southeast Texas Medical Associates, P.A. for the half marathon and Kinsel Ford for the 5K. 7:27 Marathon and half marathon runners: You will be following the green arrows. 7:28 Helicopter fly-over. 7:30 Start marathon and the half marathon. 7:40 Stage Masters Men 35+ Category the first division in the inaugural Heads or Trails Cycling Time Trial. 7:45 Start the Cycling Time Trial. 7:50 Begin to stage the Kinsel Ford 5K runners. 7:57 5K runners: You will be following the pink arrows.

Sponsors Race produced by the Sports Society for American Health. Title sponsors are Baptist Hospitals, Exygon, Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA) and Kinsel Ford. We would also like to thank Market Basket, GE Power & Water, Time Warner Cable, KBMT Channel 12, Giglio Distributing, Acadian Ambulance, Culligan - Southeast Texas Water, PumpTex, Ace Imagewear, TOTAL, Samson Oil, Bronze Body, Chick-fil-A, Smoothie King, MCM Elegante, One Main Financial, Mobiloil Federal Credit Union, Re/Max Beaumont, Sea Rim Striders, Golden Triangle Strutters. Results today are presented by IAAP out of San Antonio. Youll be able to find race results at iaapweb.com and the sportssocietyforamericanhealth.org. Our official race photographer today is Your Sporting Image. Youll be able to find your race-day photographs at yoursportingimage.com. Earlier in the week, we had 107 registered for the marathon, 467 registered for the half marathon and 827 signed up for the marathon. We have nine (9) runners who will be running their fifth Gusher Marathon with us today and will be getting a nice Gusher Marathon belt buckle. They are Brian Garcia (Beaumont), Ezra Czuba (Beaumont), Chris Lognion, William Fermo (Lumberton), Jeremy Fermo (Lumberton), Scott Alexander (Beaumont), Vern Myers (Beaumont), John Hyak (Victoria) and Richard Evans. Runners today from Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia (including Lee and Carrie Beaumont from Lynchburg doing the half marathon) and West Virginia. From outside of the United States, we have three runners from Montreal; one from La Be, Quebec and one more from Varhaug, Norway. They are performers with Cirque de Soleil-Varekai Our youngest registrant is 6-year-old Zachary Florer from Bridge City. (8 young ladies who are 7 that are running the 5K.) Our youngest half marathoner is 9-year-old Zethan Pierce from China. Ran the Pleasure Island Bridge Half Marathon. This is old hat for Zethan. (15-year-old Ashley Brandimarte from Beaumont and Hailey Stogner from Vidor.) Our youngest marathoner is 14-year-old Jon Brown from Vidor and 15-year-old Hunter Goodwin, also from Vidor. (18-year-old female Courtney Parchmann from Allen.) Nine most experienced 5Kers over the age of 70. Our three most experienced are 80-year-old B.J. Wright from Cedar Creek, 82-year-old Wallace Wrinkle from Vidor and 84-year-old Jim Solis from Groves.) Most experienced half marathoners are 70-year-old Frank Hyatt from Kirbyville and 67-yearsyoung Dixie McLeod from Shenandoah.

Most experienced marathoner today is 70-year-old Roy Vickers from Beaumont. Representing the ladies is 60-year-old Suzanne Kaluza Loveless from Lohn (just north of Brady and where the Lohn Eagles play 6-man football!) Shout-outs Shona Noyola, (#481) Brookeland running the half marathon for the Texas ALS Association, honoring her Godmother who passed away last month. Royce Perkins, Nederland Walking his 4th 5K to encourage others to become #formercouchpotatoes. He has lost 121 pounds. Dennis Carr, Canton The former Lamar graduate is back in town running the half with us today. Kristin Gilley (#367), Dayton 3rd Gusher half and this race is her gift to herself after starting to run in the fall of 2011. 36 in six days! Adam Davis (#326) Lumberton Half marathon today in memory of his late grandfather who died of congestive heart failure and is running now after his Dad suffered a massive heart attack last yr Shay Douglas, (#339) Lumberton 32 year old first timer; doing this for me! Justin Murphy, (#67) Beaumont 5:11:50 first marathon at USA Fit in Sugar Land. His Dad, Don J. Murphy, Sr. passed away randomly the next day and had run 16 Chicago Marathons. Darlene VanDorn (#570) Lumberton Running her half marathon being strong and breaking a family history of early deaths as she said her Dad passd away at 45 and her grandfather at 44. Shellye Culpepper (#319) Beaumont Running the half for her 6-year-old autistic son and Autism Awareness. Shona Honey (#397) Lumberton Running her first half marathon in honor of her Mom and brother, who both passed away this year and were supportive of her running. Melissa Rosati (5K) Groves and Robin McEachern Walking the 5K in memory of her nephew (and son), Asher, who passed after three days of life from a congenital heart defect. Birthday yesterday (March 7) Derek McWilliams, Beaumont (#58, Marathon) Birthday today (March 8) Sunni Oliver-Farren, Beaumont (5K); Elizabeth Michael, Houston; Christi Weems, Denton and Karen Robins, Kirbyville. [Christi Weems goal 40 half marathons in 2014 and today is her 10th!] [Karen Robins is running her first half marathon ever today on her birthday and is celebrating losing 50 pounds.] Birthday tomorrow (March 9) Victoria Andis, Vidor; Camille Roosevelt, Beaumont and Lori Edmonds, Kirbyville (5K) (Lori getting ready for first half in April). Humbles Owen Miller and Michael OCampo (from Hatley, Quebec) in the marathon. Birthday on Monday (March 10) Claudia Gilson, Orange; Scott Collier, Lumberton; Paula Ede, Beaumont; Victoria Dai, Beaumont; Kristin Jarecki, Katy and Michelle Harrold, Dickinson (2nd time running the Gusher).

Birthday on Tuesday (March 11) Scott Alexander, bib #1, from Beaumont and one of 8 who have birthdays on the 11th. Ryan Kelly running the half today. 2nd in 5K in 2013. Won PB Half in 1:17:12 in 2013. Iram Leon 1st in marathon in 3:07:35; 3rd at PB Half in 1:23:43. Theresa Brough running the half today. 2nd in womens half in 1:39 in 2013. Jonathan Owens running the half today. 2nd in the mens half in 1:24:17 in 2013. (3rd in 2012) Daniel Villarreal running the half today. 3rd in the mens half in 1:25:48 in 2013. Joseph Routt running the marathon today. 3rd in the marathon in 3:09:50 in 2012. Kids Marathon Club: Have completed 23 miles already. Running the 5K today. Going for the Piles of Miles Award. Heads or Tails Cycling Time Trial (USA Cycling sanctioned event) All adults are going 40K. Most of the youth going 10K
The start line is actually on the highway (MLK Parkway-380). They're actually removed from the running start. They are on the southbound side going north. They have a period where they are on the northbound side going south but due to the way the road is divided they do come back over onto the southbound side, pass the cycling start/finish area then loop back to repeat the process. It's a 4 loop course for the 40K. One loop for the 10K and 2 loops for the paralympic 20K.
Bib Num Start Time First Name Last Name Category 1 7:45 James Courtier (Bellaire) Masters Men 35+ Cat 4/5 2 7:46 Cody Pedigo Masters Men 35+ Cat 4/5 3 7:47 Adam Wilkins (Little Elm) Masters Men 35+ Cat 4/5 4 7:48 Shannon Barrios (Lumberton) Masters Men 35+ Cat 4/5 5 7:49 Robert Holthus (TW) Masters Men 35+ Cat 4/5 6 7:51 Wayde Klein (Tyler) Masters Men 35+ Cat 4/5 7 8:05 Will Stokes (Houston) Masters Men 40+ Cat 1/2/3/4 8 8:06 Jim McCulloch (Houston) Masters Men 40+ Cat 1/2/3/4 9 8:07 Andrew Powell (Houston) Masters Men 40+ Cat 1/2/3/4 10 8:08 Fred Morales Masters Men 40+ Cat 1/2/3/4 11 8:30 Robert McCallum Masters Men 50+ Cat 1/2/3/4 12 8:31 Clif Cassidy (Dallas) Masters Men 50+ Cat 1/2/3/4 13 8:32 Val Lincecum (Katy) Masters Men 50+ Cat 1/2/3/4 14 8:33 Jonathan Snow (Hous.) Masters Men 50+ Cat 1/2/3/4 15 8:34 Michael Ereli (Houston) Masters Men 50+ Cat 1/2/3/4 16 8:50 Jerry Dusterhoff (Round Rock) Masters Men 60+ 17 8:51 Guy Goodson (Beaumont) Masters Men 60+ 18 8:52 Stuart Hall (Grapevine) Masters Men 60+ 19 9:00 Jorge Avalos (Windcrest) Paralympic 20 9:01 Bobby Ludwick (San Antonio) Paralympic 21 9:15 Eric Larson (Bellaire) Men Cat 3 22 9:16 Chuck Lafferty (Henderson) Men Cat 3 23 9:17 Nathan Lesniewski (Chandler) Men Cat 3 24 9:30 Jeannie Lafferty (Henderson) Women 4 25 9:31 Rosanna Halter (Houston) Women 4 26 9:32 Jacquie Potter (Houston) Women 4 27 9:33 Ashley Lesniewski (Chandler) Women 4 28 9:40 Leigh Carr (Kemah) Masters Women 40+ Cat 3/4 29 9:41 Annette Colgan (Houston) Mast. Women 40+ Cat 3/4 30 9:42 Carole Burroughs (Tyler) Masters Women 40+ Cat 3/4 31 9:43 Melanie Holland Masters Women 40+ Cat 3/4 32 9:50 Taylor Whitehead (Winnie) Open 33 9:51 Joshua Yonker (Beaumont) Open 34 9:52 Percy Jordan (Beaumont) Open 35 9:53 Lane Weatherford (Beaumont) Open 36 9:54 Blake Denison Open (beginners preferably) 37 9:55 Brooke Denison Open (beginners preferably) 38 9:56 Drew Miller (Nederland) Open 39 10:05 Dustin Williams (Beaumont) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 40 10:06 Jacy Crosby (Houston) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 41 10:07 Brian Franklin (Pt. Arthur) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 42 10:08 Mike Parise (Beaumont) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 43 10:09 Thomas Aardahl 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 44 10:10 Mike Leonard (Beaumont) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 45 10:11 Jeremy Schwab (Houston) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 46 10:12 David Switzer (Katy) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 47 10:13 Mike Pendleton 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 48 10:14 Chuck Terrell (Santa Fe) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 49 10:15 Eric Laing (Beaumont) 40k: Eddy Merckx Style 50 10:20 John Douglas Men Cat 5 51 10:21 Garrick Malone Men Cat 5 52 10:22 Adam Cohrs (Beaumont) Men Cat 5 53 10:23 Josh Leblanc (Beaumont) Men Cat 5 54 10:24 Michael-James Hey (Houston) Men Cat 5 55 10:25 Miguel Gonzalez (Houston) Men Cat 5 56 10:26 Ryan Silva (Houston) Men Cat 5 57 10:27 Brian Van Orman (Tyler) Men Cat 5 58 10:28 Robert Williamson Men Cat 5 59 10:29 Zachary Miller Men Cat 5 60 10:30 Long Vo (Houston) Men Cat 5 61 10:31 Steve Sievert (Houston) Men Cat 5 62 10:32 Charlie Johnson (Katy) Men Cat 5 63 11:00 Dylan Byrd (Austin) Men Cat 4 64 11:01 Seth Cooke (Tyler) Men Cat 4