So, of course, it was correctly noted that this year's IRONMAN Texas winner Tomas Rodriguez Hernandez (MEX) ran a course best run of 2:34:14, beating Matt Hanson’s time (2:34:39) in 2018 by 25 seconds.
However, the most ever sub-3 hour marathons - 26 - were posted on Saturday in the event's 13-year history. The year-by-year totals are as follows:
2011 - 6
2012 - 5 (1 was female)
2013 - 2
2014 - 7 (1 was female)
2015 - 4
2016 - 13 (2 were female)
2017 - 21 (2 were female)
2018 - 23 (1 was female)
2019 - 16 (2 were female)
2021 - None
2022 - 11
2023 - 15 (2 were female)
2024 - 26
Twenty-four of those 26 were recorded in the first 29 men's finishers, while the final two were posted by age groupers.
The 63rd fastest male overall - Diego Blanton of Philadelphia, PA (30-34) - ran 2:56:34 as part of a 9:11:07 overall finish, while the other belonged to Martin Gallardo of San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina (25-29), who ran 2:48:38 - the 76th fastest male on his way to an overall time of 9:18:55.
They were both eighth overall in their respective age divisions.
Women's champion Kat Matthews missed by 15 seconds (3:00:15) of being just the 12th sub-3 hour marathon by a female at IMTX.
Last year, Matthews broke an 11-year-old run course mark by Caitlin Snow with a showing of 2:49:32.
Snow had run 2:51:47 while finishing second overall to Mary Beth Ellis. She ran 20 minutes faster on the run than Ellis, but couldn't make up an almost 27-minute deficit coming out of T2.
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