Best and "Memorable" Races Christoph F. Eick

• 1995
  • Run for the Arts -- 5K (May, Houston, TX) in 20:21 First age group award I ever won!
  • 10 Miles for Texas (October, Woodlands, TX) in 69:54 Breaking 70 minutes!
  • New York City Marathon (November, New York, NY) in 3:42:56 My first marathon!
• 1996
  • Bellaire Trolley Run -- 5K (April, Houston, TX) in 19:33 Breaking 20 Minutes the first time!
  • California International Marathon (December, Sacramento, CA) in 3:24:53 Had to overcome all kind of injury problems and still managed to run the race!
• 1997
  • Conoco Rodeo Run --- 10K (Jan., Houston, TX) in 41:06 Houston's Best Race!
  • America Finest City Half-Marathon (Aug., San Diego, CA) in 1:34:00 Nice challenging course!
  • Houston Masters Classical -- 25K (Nov., Houston, TX) in 1:48:10 Running 6:58 pace!
  • Dallas White Rock Marathon (Dec., Dallas, TX) in 3:23:52 Tough race facing quite bad weather conditions!
  • Jingle Bell Run -- 5M (Dec., Houston, TX) in 32:22 Running a PR wearing big chrismas bows!
• 1998
  • Houston Law Run -- 8K (April, Houston, TX) in 31:36 Fastest race of 1998!
  • Crescent City Classic 10K (April, New Orleans, NO) in 40:43 Winning a top-500-finisher poster placing 445th!
  • Bellaire Trolley Run -- 5K (April, Houston, TX) in 19:06 Ran with a cold and almost broke 19:00!
  • Pikes Peak Ascent Race -- 13.3M (Aug., Manitou Springs, CO) in 4:26:43 My first trail race!
  • Decker Challenge 25K Race (Dec., Austin, TX) in 1:50:10 Austin's hilliest road race!
  • Congress Avenue Mile Race (Dec., Austin, TX) in 5:23 Winning an age group award over a new distance!
• 1999
  • RunTex 30K-Race (January, Buda, TX) in 2:11:40 Placing 34th overall running 7:03-pace on a hilly course.
  • Austin Motorola Marathon (February, Austin, TX) in 3:16:16 Finally, a marathon with decent weather, and I broke 3:20 in the third try! Ran 7:17-pace with the 3:10-pace group (a lot of fun!) the first 21M, and lost about 5 minutes on the last 5 miles.
  • Mercer Island Half-Marathon (March, Mercer Island (near Seattle), WA) in 1:29:09 Broke 90 minutes with style on a hilly course with a lot of turns.
  • Galveston Health Week 5K (November, Galveston, TX) in 18:47 Best 5K race of the old Millennium!
  • Congress Avenue Mile Race (December, Austin, TX) in 5:17 Finished with and beat runners whose 10K PRs were more than a minute faster than my 10K-PR; following a 5K-training program makes you really run faster!
• 2000
  • Concoco Rodeo Run 10K(February, Houston, TX) in 39:39 Breaking 40 minutes the first time, placing 108th overall out of 4400 finishers!
  • Crescent City Classic 10K (April, New Orleans, NO) in 40:08 Winning a top-500-finisher poster placing 261st!
  • Madison Marathon (May, Madison, WI) in 3:12:27 Managed to pick up the pace again after a bad patch, and won an age group award!
  • First Colony 30K Race (December, Sugarland, TX) in 2:08:36 Ran 6:54 pace and placed 34th overall --- fastest longer distance race of 2000!
  • Asic's and Runner's World Midnight Run (December, New York, NY) having fun and running quite slowly Finishing the year 2000 with a blast!
• 2001
  • Mount Evans Ascent (June, Idaho Spring, CO) in 3:01:57 Finish about 14200 feet, and I did'n have any problems with altitude sickness
  • Turkey Trot 5M (November, Sugarland, TX) in 31:36 First PR in 2001 after overcoming a lot of injuries and other problems in 2001.
  • White Rock Marathon (December, Dallas TX) in 3:10:26 PR on a beautiful cold, sunny winter morning.
  • Congress Avenue Mile (December, Austin, TX) in 5:16.7 Another surprising PR just 2 weeks after the White Rock Marathon.
• 2002
  • El Paso Energy Half Marathon (January, Houston, TX) in 1:27:16 Another PR!
  • Motorola Marathon (February, Austin, TX) in 3:03:37 Best marathon of my life also winning an age group award; running 7:00 pace all the way --- lost 30 seconds on mile 23 and 24, but finished strong getting 15 second back on the last mile, running the "stretch" in 6:10-pace insired by the loud crowd support.
  • Bighorn Trail 53K (June, Shrerida, WY) in 7:35:37 My first ultra race runnign over the prairies of Wyoming. Although I was slow, I really enjoyed the scenery a lot!
  • New York City Marathon (November) in 3:15:46 Returned to the site of my first marathon and enjoyed it a lot! Finished strong, and passed about 1000 runners on the last 11M finish 1448th overall.