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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.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Iowa Gov. Vilsack to run 3rd Marathon this Weekend

At the 10th annual Marathon-to-Marathon, which takes place between Storm Lake and Marathon, Iowa, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack will run his 3rd career marathon.

Vilsack, who is possibly considering a presidential run in 2008, ran his first marathon last fall in the Des Moines Marathon in 4:57:35. He then joined Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee this past March in running the Little Rock Marathon. Vilsack finished the hilly Arkansas course in 5:28:05.

Most recently, Vilsack competed in Saturday, April 30th's 37th Drake Relay On-the-ROADS Half-Marathon in the capital city of Des Moines in a time of 2:10:31.

posted by WalkSports.com | 2:19 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Scott Dunlap said...

That's cool.

Hey, thought you might want to know that Kristin Armstrong, an Austin runner, has an article on trail running in this month's Runners World. Links:

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,5033,s6-51-195-0-8168,00.html
http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2005/06/welcome-to-wild-trail-running-with.html

Keep up the great blog!

SD

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