Team Rogue Elite Competes and Wins the 2009 Zilker Relays : Speakers & Interviews

Last night's Zilker Relays was the debut of the newly formed post-collegiate team put together by Rogue founder Steve Sisson. The Team’s goal for the evening was to showcase their talents in front of an Austin running crowd. Under threatening skies, blasting winds & occasional downpours the Friday evening race was a challenge for all the teams. Team Rogue Elite's men’s team consisted of four former UT men’s athletes. The lead off leg was run by Joe Thorne, who is currently preparing for his first Hawaii Ironman race in October. Joe ran a tough race bursting through the first mile at a very aggressive pace. His stated goal was to go hard from the gun and gauge how he felt from there. Since he has been concentrating on swim, bike & run for a year he really had not run a lot of runs under 5 minute pace. He ran is first mile was sub-4:30, as he averaged 4:40 per mile producing the fastest 2.5 mile split of the evening in an 11:22.


Leg 2 was run by Kyle Miller, who is just getting started back to training the last month. Kyle had a strong run and averaged 4:56 per mile running just over 12 minutes. He handed off to Darren Brown who has been on a break after his summer in Europe racing 1500 meters. Darren & his dad Barry Brown are the only father/son duo to break the 4 minute mile barrier. Brown ran 11:47 or 4:50 per mile pace. Final leg for the team was run by Erik “Stan” Stanley. Stan ran the 2nd fastest split of the evening in 11:35 at 4:45 per mile pace. Stan has been training with Team Rogue and Sisson all summer for his first road marathon in Portland on October 4th. Erik is also very interested in trail events and will be running the Bandera 50K in January.

Congrats Team Rogue Elite!