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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.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

North Park Baptist Striders?

The running club that I belong to, Houston Striders, put together 10 teams that were composed completely (or predominately) of club members for this past May's Beach to Bay Relay in Corpus Christi -- an all-time Strider high, by the way!

According to the June edition of Stridelines, another five (5) teams featured Striders!

That will probably be the route that I will follow in 2006 as some members of the church that I belong to, North Park Baptist Church in Humble (really smack dab in the middle of I-45 and Hwy. 59 along FM 1960), will be putting together a team to represent our church.

Joining me so far will be Kenny Gibson, Nathan Shanahan and Gregg Sizemore. Since there is no division for church or non-profit groups, we'll have to compete (ha ha!) in the Men's Division!

Actually, competing really isn't the motivation at hand. In fact, Kenny brought up the idea about using our effort as a fundraiser for our church's youth department to help defray the cost of kids to go to summer youth camp. Stay tuned!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The obvious comeback is that Kenny Gibson, Nathan Shanahan and Gregg Sizemore need to become Striders.

Steve

9:53 AM  
Blogger WalkSports.com said...

Too funny, but very true!

9:58 AM  

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