Post finishes 38th in Trials

From staff reports
Posted on November 5, 2007

JMU alumnus Eric Post (’02) finished 38th in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in New York City on Saturday. The finish was 50 spots ahead of his bib number with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 25 seconds in the qualifier for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein and Brian Sell qualified for the 2008 Olympic Team as Hall set a U.S. Olympic Trials record with his time of 2:09:02 seconds for the marathon race.

Post was satisfied with his finish as he went in with only the 99th-best marathon time in the field. He set a new personal record by 1 minute and 35 seconds.

“I thought the event was very well put together,” Post said. “The organizers said it was the deepest trials field ever and I thought it was the best I could’ve done.”