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| | Run_Walk: Marathon: The Gusher Marathon, Half Marathon and 5k | | This is a flat, fast USATF Sanctioned/ Certified course that provides a great opportunity for a new PR. Submitted by: kathy
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Details | | Race name: | The Gusher Marathon, Half Marathon and 5k | | Date: | May 1 2010 | | Start time: | 7:30 am | | Location: | Lamar University Montagne Center
Beaumont Tx | | Website: | Primary Website
| | Additional info: | Join us in the fight against obesity. We have a distance for everyone. If you can walk three miles, you can be part of the rush.
Use The Gusher as motivation to start your new exercise program today. This is your chance to shed those unwanted pounds, to fit into a new dress or pair of pants, to improve your health, to recreate yourself. Start today and let The Gusher be your fitness goal for May 1, 2010.
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Director Information | | Name: | Richard James III | | Phone: | | | Email: | | | Website: | | | Additional info: | |
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History | | Year established: | | | Benefitting Organization: | | | Typical field size: | | | Additional history: | Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in south Beaumont. In 1901, a well at Spindeltop struck oil, at a
depth of 1,139 feet, what is know as the Lucas Gusher or the Lucas Geyser blew oil over 150 feet in the air at a rate of 100,000 barrels per day. It took nine days before the well was brought under control.
As the first major oil field located in the United States, the well tripled the entire oil production capability of the United States overnight.
Spindletop was the largest gusher the world had seen and catapulted Beaumont into one of the Unites States' first oil-field boomtowns. This cheap oil helped to fuel the incredible industrial expansion of the United States over the last 100 years.
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