Tornados Running Club featured in Thursday's Chronicle
The club that manages the first race (the Cross Country Relay on September 17th) in the 2005 HARRA Fall Series, the Tornados Running Club, is featured in Roberta McInnis' column in the Houston Chronicle.
The column speaks to the Tornados benchmark tempo runs in Memorial Park on Sunday mornings and if you've ever been out there on those mornings, you know who they are. And even on the club's website, they proclaim, "We're FAST and We Bring Home the Hardware."
Here is how the club has fared in the HARRA Spring and Fall Series team competitions:
4th: Spring 2004 (1)
5th: Spring 2005, Fall 2004 (2), Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2000, Fall 1999
6th: Fall 2003 (3), Fall 2002 (4)
7th: Spring 2003, Spring 2001
(1) Won Open Men and Open Women, (2) Won Masters Men, (3,4) Won Open Men
The column speaks to the Tornados benchmark tempo runs in Memorial Park on Sunday mornings and if you've ever been out there on those mornings, you know who they are. And even on the club's website, they proclaim, "We're FAST and We Bring Home the Hardware."
Here is how the club has fared in the HARRA Spring and Fall Series team competitions:
4th: Spring 2004 (1)
5th: Spring 2005, Fall 2004 (2), Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2000, Fall 1999
6th: Fall 2003 (3), Fall 2002 (4)
7th: Spring 2003, Spring 2001
(1) Won Open Men and Open Women, (2) Won Masters Men, (3,4) Won Open Men
posted by WalkSports.com | 10:14 AM
6 Comments:
What are you trying to say, Jon? :-)
For one thing, I will say that they're all faster than me! ..... And since the journalist part of me is being pressed, a conclusion could also be drawn that they're not fast enough ..... If I understand the way that the HARRA competitions work, I chose the team standings over the years because if enough teams are formed by a particular club -- the club scores more points (thereby allowing slower folks like myself to contribute to the club's effort).
Oh. I thought it was something about talking the talk but not walking the walk (in the HARRA competitions).
That sentiment might be able to be construed if they pursued the coverage in Roberta's column. (However, I doubt it. I certainly didn't pursue the coverage I got last November. I was trying to get it for others.) I noticed that she made reference to their recent division wins. However, their club isn't as big one as those like Bayou City or the Striders. Both clubs have runners that score team points in all six divisions.
Note the Tornados couldn't even field a team of 3 women (that's any 3 women regardless of age) in the last 4 races of the 2005 Spring Series. The article leaves you with a strong different impression.
We are still growing. Give us another couple of years. Considering the size of our club, we sure do bring home more than our fair share of hardware. Journalists never get their information correct. They make it sound better than what it really is - hey they have to sell papers.
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