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Location: Spring, Texas, United States

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.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Striders Christmas Lights Run

Yesterday's running consisted of the Houston Striders Christmas Lights Run, which started at approximately 7 p.m. near Champps Restaraunt in Uptown Park near the Galleria.

A very good group of folks were there including Steve and Barb Shepard, Karen and Tim Bowler, John Yoder, Noah Matthews, Carole Flad, Geoff and Rachel Guenther, Gavin and Megan Dillingham, Lee Greb, Saara DeWalt (our three PIM coaches), Byron Evenson, Loren and Judith Neufeld, Lynlee Linke, Pam Paling and Frank Halter, Lisa Ruthven and Jack Rubalcalva, Sam Ogundele and many that I'm still learning names and faces too. Chris Murphy, Lynn Stengel, Stephanie Salyer and Sophie Rydin from our PIM Fitness group were there as well as David Kennedy, who ran this last weekend's Run The Woodlands and was in Steve Shepard's PIM group.

The run ended up lasting a little over an hour. I tried to stay up with the main pack of speedsters, but started losing ground and eventually lost sight of them. Since I was in another part of town that I wasn't familiar with, I waited until the folks that were following me caught up with me before venturing any further.

Next Strider event? The Longest Long Run on Sunday morning, December 26th at the George R. Brown Convention Center at 6:30 a.m. 21 miles on the hp Houston Marathon course.

posted by WalkSports.com | 9:15 AM

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