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Congratulations to Polish Houston Chevron Marathon and Half-Marathon runners! Two of them traveled from Poland:
Agnieszka Gortel-Maciuk – Chorzów, Polish long-distance runner, four times Polish champion at half marathon.
Artur Kozłowski – Wroclaw, Polish IT specialist and athlete holding several Polish records.
Artur Kozlowski’s fifth-place finish was far better than he had a right to expect given the deep field of Ethiopian runners, but the slower-than-expected pace kept him from running fast enough to beat the sub-2:11 standard set by Poland’s Olympic Committee for him to clinch a spot on his country’s team for the Games this summer in Rio de Janeiro. But Kozlowski said he thinks he was strong enough in Houston, posting a 2:14:11, to make it to Brazil. He’ll have another chance this spring in the Polish championships.
Artur Kozłowski i Agnieszka Gortel-Maciuk were the fastest Europeans in this Marathon.
The list of Houston runners was quite large this year:
Kasia Hickey, Eva Kulesza, Radoslaw Kulesza, Paula Mrowczynski-Hernandez and Kasia Lindhorst.
Houston Marathon 2016 was for me really greate adventure! Especially, I spent time with fantastic people in open and friendly home.
Thank You Kasia and Bill Lindhorst -for your help, care, support and friendship!
Thank You Małgosia and Wacław Mucha -for nice monday, inetresting talks and your patience during my shopping. 😉
I hope to see You all again. 🙂
Runners greetings!
Agnieszka Gortel-Maciuk