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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.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's 5:15 a.m. and I'm a few minutes from going in and getting a shower before waking Waverly up and heading up the road to the First Choice ER Run Thru The Woods 5M / 1M Kids event today near The Woodlands Mall. This will be the first event that I've run (other than Run The Woodlands 5K) in each of the three years that I've been running.

I've made a couple of additions to the web site. They are as follows:

Event Logs: Waverly Walk Jessica Alexander Cassie Cowan Holden Choi
All-Time Houston Marathon Warm Up Series Winners
First Choice ER Run Thru The Woods 5M Results (2001-2004)

I told Waverly that she'll have a chance this morning to meet one of the best runners in the city in Sean Wade. Sean came up to The Woodlands last Thanksgiving and was defeated by 23-year-old Adam David. When I was at packet pickup Tuesday evening, it was hard not to notice "Wade" a few lines above "Walk". I e-mailed Sean and asked to see about saying "Hello!" after the race. (I really didn't get a chance to see who else was going to be there. Run Thru The Woods will probably have about 2,000 runners participate this morning. It's a community-like event and I anticipate seeing a lot of my friends and great people.)

Again, Happy Thanksgiving!

1 Comments:

Blogger Jessica, a Austin Runner AND triathlete said...

thanks again for the event log!!!
YOU ROCK!!!
-Jessica

9:41 AM  

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