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I'm a mid-to-the back of the pack runner who probably enjoys promoting runners more than I do running myself ... I've completed 21 marathons (with a 4:47:32 PR! in Austin) and 52 half marathons (with a 2:09:58 PR! in Oregon) since November 2003 ... I've done a marathon in 12 states, half marathon in 23 and an event in 30 states and one Canadian province ... I have a 13-year-old daughter, Waverly Nicole, who completed her first half marathon in January 2006, made only two B's each of the last two years, was the only sixth grader to sing a solo (Carrie Underwood's Don't Forget To Remember Me) in their choir program (adding Taylor Swift's Tim McGraw in '08) and scored a 19 on the ACT in December 2007 as a seventh grader ... Waverly and I are members of the following clubs -- the Seven Hills Running Club, HARRA and The Woodlands Running Club ... I'm Marathon Maniac #308 ... I edit HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and write a column for Runner Triathlete News called, "Talking the Talk" ... I'm also the running columnist for the Courier of Montgomery County ... I'm a three-time winner of TAPPS' Sportswriter of the Year Award as well as TABC's Golden Hoops Award.

Sunday, December 19, 2004

536 HARRA Members Running on 1/16/05

Of the 1,374 HARRA (Houston Area Road Runners Association) members, there are 406 members who are planning on the hp Houston Marathon and another 130 that are going to tackle the Aramco Half Marathon on Sunday morning, January 16, 2005 (according to the Confirmation list on the marathon's web site as of December 8th).

While 108 members (86 for the full and 22 for the half) are not affiliated with any HARRA club, the top three clubs supplying runners to the annual January event are the Bayou City Road Runners, the Houston Striders and Houston Fit with 94, 87 and 71 runners, respectively.

Bayou City will have 76 runners doing the full marathon and 18 running the half. The Striders will have a split of 63 and 24 while Houston Fit has 50 runners doing the full and 21 tackling the half.

Rounding out the top ten are Houston Masters Sports Association (25), Finish Line Sports (20), Al Lawrence Running Club (19), Tornadoes Running Club (18), Bay Area Running Club (17), Terlingua Track Club (17) and PTI (16).

A complete listing of HARRA-affiliated clubs are at the following link: http://www.harra.org/clubs.asp

posted by WalkSports.com | 1:32 PM

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