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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

HRBs Turkey Day Weekend Update

Dallas Turkey Troy 8M
Edwin Quarles 57:45.2 (time is listed as 57:50.55; chip difference is 5.35 seconds)

Run Thru The Woods 5M
Rick Cook 39:16.6
Dave Smart 46:46.7
Jon Walk 48:21.3 (chip) 48:23.34 (watch)

TXU Energy Uptown Turkey Trot 10K
Scott Effner 39:20.0
Manuel Mondragon 58:38.8
Cassie Cowan 1:02:27.2
Jennifer Kim 1:04:05.3
Sarah Graybeal 1:06:29.7
Erica Smith 1:20:45.8

Friends of HRB!
Lance Collins, Sean Scroggins SNB Trot 5M, 31:01.1, 5th in age group
Steve Schroeder, Dallas Turkey Trot 8M, 53:11.4


(Lance and I got in what I hope to find out to be a little more than 4 miles this evening here in my subdivision. I can't "google map" the streets where I live because most are new since the last set of maps were done. Lance is a fellow Spring HS graduate (him '81, me '84) whose parents live on the other side of Interstate 45. He had a chance to meet my wife, Gena, and check out, as Jennifer Kim put it, "Chateau de Walk." We had a good run that lasted 44:14. I wasn't running at 5K or 10K pace but slightly behind it. I was still fairly conversational the entire time. We share a passion for the sport that many of us that congregate around these blogs, as well as race courses, do. I had a great visit and appreciated him dialing back the pace a little bit. It's the first time in two months that I've run twice in the same day; however, I'm all the better for it!)

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jon,
I ran the Dallas Turkry Trot. I did race day registration. They listed my age as 52{I am 39}. Chip time 53:11, 170 place overall. Nothing like kicking some dallas butt.

11:04 AM  

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