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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.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

4:54:34 becomes 4:55:08!

It seems that everyone that wasn't an elite / invited runner (assuming that since they were starting at or near the front that they didn't have a chip time difference or theirs were programmed not to trigger at the start) has had their chip time adjusted by 34 seconds!

Naturally, I have an e-mail into the hp Houston Marathon this morning (and am eagerly waiting an explanation.)

Anybody that was watching for 5K results when they got home Sunday night (I was to find out if my daughter's chip time difference would net her her second best 5K out of six) knows that you had to go to the overall 5K search to get the chip and gun times. You couldn't get them in the athlete search!

Certainly there was somebody who went to bed Sunday night that had narrowly qualified for Boston (perhaps even including the 59-second give, 3:40:00 to 3:40:59), but now when they check the results find out that they didn't!

posted by WalkSports.com | 7:23 AM

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