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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.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Yoder picks up 4th win of 2005 last Saturday

While cleaning things up around the house to get ready for the arrival of Hurricane Rita, I noticed in Thursday's Chronicle that fellow Houston Strider John Yoder notched at least his fourth overall win of the 2005 calendar year.

Yoder held off Junior Mitchell to win the Life Change Institute 5K in north Houston in a time of 17:23. Mitchell was four (4) seconds behind Yoder in 17:27 while Chad Laster finished 3rd in 18:08 and the younger brother of Spring Westfield HS cross country and track star Nicole Jones, Nathaniel, was fourth in a time of 19:44.

Yoder started 2005 off on January 1st with a win at the Texas Marathon in Kingwood before recording wins at the Blue Bell Fun Run 10K in Brenham and the inaugural League Play Grill 5K in Cypress three weeks ago.

Faith Sanders, who is spotted often at races with Nicole and her two brothers, Nathaniel and Jonathan, won the women's division in a time of 21:52 while Houston running veteran Eva Luckey was second in 22:40.

posted by WalkSports.com | 7:05 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Woodlands Runner said...

Hang in there Jon!

5:45 PM  

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