Saturday, May 21, 2011

Can't win them all - Beach to Bay 2011

Took the day off Friday




Passing the Baton! B-Rod to D-Rod


Team V-Fit 2nd place overall 




From Left to Right Rick Carillo, Gabriel Lucido, David Rodriguez, Benny Rodriguez, Gio Pipia, Colin Slattery
6th to 1st leg

Drove to Corpus Christi on Friday around 7 got there at 9 p.m.


Took an ice bath and slept at 11:30 pm


Woke at 5:00 a.m.


Race started at 7:00 a.m. 
Temp 88 with 60 humidity


1st leg Colin Slattery a 4:07 miler from OU position us in 4th place 3.6 leg
2nd leg Gio Pipia took us to from 4th place to 2nd
3rd leg Benny Rodriguez maintained 2nd and gained ground  here are my splits (5:01 ,5:03, 5:08, 5:15)
4th leg David Rodriguez ran against an NCAA Division I 10K champ Shadrack Songok of course Shad opened the lead from 2 min to 3 1/2 min
5th leg Gabriel Lucido stayed in 2nd place
6th leg Rick Carillo brought us home in 2nd place...


Results down below....


Beach to Bay Results 2011 Open Men Division

Here are a couple of pics from some of my teammates..... more pics to come!

 Rick Carillo 6th leg
Gabriel Lucido  4th leg




News article down below!



Corpus Christi Article


My picture came out in an article on friday's Corpus Christi Paper



Benny Rodriguez  Team www.laredoheat.com  Back to Back Champs Beach to Bay 2004-2005

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great job Benny! I ran that 1st leg and the distance changed from 3.4 to 3.6 at race day, but actually ended up being 3.97 miles. On asphalt of course so no real complaint. Could have done without the humidity!

Benny said...

Thanks and yes it was a tough day! Good Job to you and your team!

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