Houston (Half-)Marathon January 17: sold out!

We just recently mentioned that registration for the Chevron Houston Marathon and the Aramco Half-Marathon was off to an extremely brisk start. Now it's over, in record time. The two January 17 races have a combined capacity of 22,000. The half was sold out in less than 24 hours, and the full marathon took just a little bit longer. "We knew we would establish a new standard with the fastest sellout in race history, but the pace at which registration was completed exceeded even our most optimistic projection," states Race Director Brant Kotch. "The Houston Marathon Committee and our dedicated team of more than 5,000 volunteers look forward to staging a great event for our largest field ever." Managing Director Steven Karpas admits "we had concerns the difficult economy might impact our numbers and offered our participants a no fee increase year to do our part in these tough times. Obviously, the phenomenal response and 60-hour sell out proved us wrong." There are still ways to enter the sold out Houston races through the Run for a Reason charity programs. More information is available at www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com