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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, April 21, 2005

Weekly Workout Information

After running 11 miles on Sunday with fellow Strider Lynlee Linke at Terry Hershey Park as part of a larger group of Striders, I basically took the remainder of the week off.

Monday and Tuesday, I just didn't feel like running while in Albuquerque and Wednesday, I drove out to hospitals in Clovis and Tucumcari to review registration procedures before driving back late that afternoon. I was up at 4:30 a.m., on the road by 5 a.m. and eventually got back to the hotel room at 7:20 p.m. and went right to bed. (I did see, however, a long trail along Tramway Blvd. going north and south after exiting on to it from I-40 instead of taking it all the way to I-25 before going north to the hotel. I also measured the distance I ran last week going up and down Tramway Blvd. -- 3 miles each way.)

When I got home this evening, Thursday, I went to Bally's in The Woodlands and did my first workout on the elliptical trainer in quite some time, but hammered 5.98 miles out in an hour and two minutes. (The extra two minutes came when I realized that I seemed to being going too fast a little bit too long. I use a random setting, on Level 15, meaning that I get different grade thrown at me constantly.) I felt good and feel better heading into a 5K on Saturday (Run The Woodlands #128) and then registering for two half marathons next weekend in Iowa and Nebraska.

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