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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.

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Loyalty comes with a price!

It's official. I'm staying in Jackson, Tennessee this weekend and I will not be running on Sunday morning in the Seabrook Lucky Trails Half Marathon. (And due to the lack of timing and "having enough cash on me" issues, I was not able to run in the Tom King Classic half marathon on Saturday in Nashville nor can I run the Knoxville half marathon on Sunday.)

Even though this will be the first race that I paid for ($45) and didn't run, my loyalty to Houston Baptist head women's basketball coach Shane Brown is more important. I've come this far to support the team so I might as well stay the entire way (since where I am doing my work at isn't an issue.) The 36-2 No. 1-ranked Huskies will play Oklahoma City University in the semifinals on Monday night. If they win, they'll play the winner of Union (Tenn.) University vs. Point Loma (Ca.) Nazarene on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.

I may get up in the morning, find the half marathon course for the upcoming Andrew Jackson Marathon here in Jackson and go run that instead!

2 Comments:

Blogger Sarah said...

Well that explains why I didn't see you there this morning! I was keeping an eye out. One of these days we'll get to say hello... :)

11:57 AM  
Blogger Steve said...

Jon,

Everybody had a great time at Seabrook this morning. You were missed, catch you next time...

Cheers, Steve

12:10 PM  

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