Houston Running: Leading Texas "Hood to Coast Relay" Team Profiled in Chronicle

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Monday, September 05, 2005

Leading Texas "Hood to Coast Relay" Team Profiled in Chronicle

In case you missed the hardcopy Houston Chronicle on Sunday (or simply do not live in the greater Houston area), there was an excellent article, written by Roberta MacInnis, about the leading Texas team (which she was a part of) at this year's 24th annual Fred Meyer Hood to Coast 197-mile Relay.

The online link is: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3335716.

The area team, which was named "Houston We Have A Problem," finished the 197-mile race in 23:49:27, a pace of 7:16/mile which allowed them to finish 75th of 1,063 teams. (The winners did it in 17:34:51 - a staggering 5:22/pace.) It was also the best time by a Texas team in two years when Dallas' "Texas Waarped Speed" finished 52nd in 22:27:55.

The team members included MacInnis, Matt Kolesar, Anna Sumrall Helm, Wayne Cohen, Bryan Harris, Molly Swinney, Dora Tognarelli, Dirk Voorhees, Fernando Marcenaro, Brett Riley, Shawn Emerick and Shay Emerick.

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Tiggs said...: It appears from checking out the Striders list that I already know some other members! I even work with one! Looking forward to meeting everyone eventually!; 3:25 PM