Houston Running: Best Wishes to Jessica and her first 10K!

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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, July 07, 2005

Best Wishes to Jessica and her first 10K!

Best wishes go out to Jessica Alexander, who posts comments on this web blog, this weekend as she will be running her first 10K ever in Lampasas on Saturday, July 9th in the 25th annual "Toughest 10K in Texas."

She will join Houston Striders father and son combo John and Ryan DiMarco, who will be completing the fourth leg of the 5-leg HEB Texas 10K Challenge.

And since Jessica hasn't got her own running blog started yet, I'm hoping that she'll share her experiences here with all of us in a "Houston Running" race report.

(For that matter, if any of you who read this blog on a regular basis wish to contribute a race report of any race that you run, please don't hesitate to contact me at my AOL e-mail address, walksports.)

2 Comments:

Tiggs said...: GOod Luck Jess!!; 10:34 AM
Anonymous said...: Wow-Thanks so much Jon and Cassie!

I can't wait for tomorrow, I have been so excited and nervous all day today. I can only imagine the larger the race gets, the more the excitement builds!

I will certainly write up a little report after the race. In fact, I am planning to to start up a running BLOGsite sometime next week, so stay tuned and i will post the URL as soon as i get it up and running!

And on top of that, i'll be joining a certain running club sometime next week too...more details coming soon! ;)

I better end this before I end up with a BLOG entry in the comment area!:)
-Jessica, a Houston Runner; 12:42 PM