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Event Information: Trina Painter

TRINA PAINTER

UNITED STATES

BIB NUMBER:    38

BIRTHDATE:  June 24, 1966

PERSONAL BEST/MASTERS:   35:24 (Paso Robles, 2007)

10-K MASTERS HIGHLIGHTS:
11Oct10  Tufts Health Plan for Women  1st  35:36
04Jul10  Peachtree Road Race  5th  35:51
27Mar10  Cooper River Bridge Run  4th  35:27
04Jul09  Peachtree Road Race  4th  36:12
23Sep07  Heritage Oaks 10-K  4th  35:24

OTHER MASTERS HIGHLIGHTS:
01May11  Lilac Bloomsday Run 12-K  1st  44:03
12Mar11  Southwest Spine and Sports Mountain to Fountain 15-K  1st  56:02
05Jun10  Freihofer's Run for Women 5-K  4th  17:29
30May09  Freihofer's Run for Women  5-K  4th  17:33
18Oct08  Get Moving Tucson 10-Mile  1st  1:01:41
13Jan08  Aramco Half-Marathon  2nd  1:21:44
12May07  Fifth Third 25-K  4th  1:38:58
26Mar07  More Half-Marathon  3rd 1:19:10
14Jan07  Aramco Half-Marathon  1st 1:19:29

CAREER NOTES:
This will be Trina Painter's first race after entering a new age-group division as she celebrates her 45th birthday on June 24.

The Albuquerque native will be returning to Boston where she hopes to duplicate her first place masters finish which came in the Tufts Health Plan for Women race last October.

Over the past five years Painter has been one of the USA's top masters competitors, consistently running sub-6 minute per mile pace in several major national road races.

In the mid-1990s. Painter was one of the top American distance runners, posting a 10-K personal best of 32:17 at the 1995 Motorola East McDowell race in Phoenix.

B.A.A. Moment 8

2010 - The Hoyts

When many think of the Boston Marathon, they think of Team Hoyt, the father/son team of Dick and Rick who have participated in their unique way 28 times. Dick was 69 at the 2010 Boston Marathon.