Houston Running

One of the leading sources for the discussion of Houston-area (and Texas as well) road racing. Focus and attention will be given to Houston-area runners, specifically HARRA members, that compete in outside-of-the-area events as well as those who do interesting things that aren't captured in the various media outlets, such as Inside Texas Running, Runner Triathlete News and Roberta MacInnis' Running Notebook in the Houston Chronicle (all fine publications and columns but with limitations too).

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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, May 07, 2005

Nice job, Rachel!

Last Sunday, I went looking for finishers from Texas at the Adidas Vancouver Marathon, specifically Rachel Guenther from the Houston Striders as well as the HARRA Board.

Although a number of minutes off her performance last fall in Belgium at the ING Brussels Marathon (3:11:49, just shy of Christine Agnew's all-time Striders record of 3:11:02 at Boston in 2001), Rachel turned in an impressive 3:18:46 performance!

She was 34th of 1,896 female finishers and 242nd overall. Although she registered with Burnaby, British Columbia, Rachel was also the top Texas finisher beating Seabrook's Steven Nase by more than five (5) minutes, who came in with a time of 3:23:50. San Antonio's Rosette Davila-Sargent was the next closest Texas female finisher at 3:44:56.

posted by WalkSports.com | 12:08 AM

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