Two Half Marathons in March!
My race schedule for the month of March became more complete today as I'm sending in a check for $30 for the Baylor Student Foundation's Bearathon (Half Marathon) on Saturday, March 5th in Waco.
I also registered online today for the Seabrook Lucky Trail Half Marathon on Sunday, March 20th.
All three of my PIM coaches (Lee, Saara and Megan) from this past fall (and fellow Houston Striders) did this event and had a blast! One of the newest Striders, Clarence Silva, who ran a 2:12:09 in his first half last month at the Aramco Half Marathon, will also be joining the bunch. [Clarence is still a little bit faster than me. He legged me out at the Striders Bear Creek 10K and was clearly stronger the Wednesday night before last in a group run. Even though I continue to make dramatic strides, I still have all kinds of people to shoot for in front of me. Therein, additional motivation!]
In the February edition of Stridelines, which won its first RRCA Southern Region award as early as 1987, other Striders running the event include: Barb Shepard, Carole Flad, Cindy Laidlaw, Laura Babcock, Megan Clark-Dillingham, Sam Ogundele, Sandy Wollangk, Yoichi Morishima and Miriam Terc. Also putting together a marathon relay team is Whitney La Rocca (which I missed getting on) ... oh well, I'll just run the half and join in the fun!
And, of course, on Saturday, March 12th, I'll be participating in the Bayou City Classic 10K downtown. It will be another event that I'll be trying to ensure that I lower my time from last year and it's the first race of the H-E-B Texas 10K Challenge.
I'm still thinking about doing God's Country Marathon in north central Pennsylvania the first weekend in June of this year and if I do, I need to start formulating my plan to get ready. I think part of the reason for my success at the Houston Marathon is because I logged a lot of miles getting ready (actually much more than I did before the Marine Corps Marathon).
All I know is this, right now in my life, the running and working out makes me happy! Not that I wasn't lacking of friends (I have tons of them as well as personal and professsional acquaintances from my work in private and parochial high schools), but the people that I have come to know since I started running have added richly to my life!
One of the dangers that I can face is being decimated with a string of less than stellar times; however, to avoid that pitfall, all I need to do is look at the picture of me coming down the stretch at that very first event (and wonder why there aren't cracks on the street in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center!)
I also registered online today for the Seabrook Lucky Trail Half Marathon on Sunday, March 20th.
All three of my PIM coaches (Lee, Saara and Megan) from this past fall (and fellow Houston Striders) did this event and had a blast! One of the newest Striders, Clarence Silva, who ran a 2:12:09 in his first half last month at the Aramco Half Marathon, will also be joining the bunch. [Clarence is still a little bit faster than me. He legged me out at the Striders Bear Creek 10K and was clearly stronger the Wednesday night before last in a group run. Even though I continue to make dramatic strides, I still have all kinds of people to shoot for in front of me. Therein, additional motivation!]
In the February edition of Stridelines, which won its first RRCA Southern Region award as early as 1987, other Striders running the event include: Barb Shepard, Carole Flad, Cindy Laidlaw, Laura Babcock, Megan Clark-Dillingham, Sam Ogundele, Sandy Wollangk, Yoichi Morishima and Miriam Terc. Also putting together a marathon relay team is Whitney La Rocca (which I missed getting on) ... oh well, I'll just run the half and join in the fun!
And, of course, on Saturday, March 12th, I'll be participating in the Bayou City Classic 10K downtown. It will be another event that I'll be trying to ensure that I lower my time from last year and it's the first race of the H-E-B Texas 10K Challenge.
I'm still thinking about doing God's Country Marathon in north central Pennsylvania the first weekend in June of this year and if I do, I need to start formulating my plan to get ready. I think part of the reason for my success at the Houston Marathon is because I logged a lot of miles getting ready (actually much more than I did before the Marine Corps Marathon).
All I know is this, right now in my life, the running and working out makes me happy! Not that I wasn't lacking of friends (I have tons of them as well as personal and professsional acquaintances from my work in private and parochial high schools), but the people that I have come to know since I started running have added richly to my life!
One of the dangers that I can face is being decimated with a string of less than stellar times; however, to avoid that pitfall, all I need to do is look at the picture of me coming down the stretch at that very first event (and wonder why there aren't cracks on the street in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center!)
posted by WalkSports.com | 4:16 PM
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Also competing in the marathon relay at Seabrook will be the SMARTie team of Gavin "Turtle" Dillingham, Tom "Pokey" King, Brett "Slow as Molasses" Riley and Steve "Lightning" Shepard.
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