An Orlando lawyer won the Masters Division of the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, leading 86 participants from Orlando.
An Orlando real-estate lawyer won the Masters Division of the Chicago Marathon yesterday. The 43-year-old who works for Lowndes Drosdick Doster in Orlando won the division for 40 and older runners with a time of 2 hours, 30 minutes and 52 seconds. It was good for 85th overall.
Vanos was surprised when he found out he won the Masters Division, as he told Stephen Ruiz of the Orlando Sentinel:
“My time wasn’t as fast as I thought it needed to be to win the masters division, so when I found out that I did win it, I was pleasantly surprised. I did notice when I stopped, I watched a few guys go by me. I could tell that none of them were over 40, so that was the good news.”
Among runners 40-45 years old, Vanos finished 30 seconds ahead of the second place finisher in the division.
There were 86 runners listed from Orlando who took part in the race. It included Heather Schulz who finished 10th in the Masters Division for women with a time of 2:59:28.
Vanos told the Orlando Sentinel he plans to run the OUC Orlando Half Marathon in December and that it is not likely he would run another marathon (his only other marathon before Sunday was a 10th place finish in the Masters Division of the New York City Marathon.
