Houston Running: New Houston-Area Running Blog and New Strider!

Houston Running

One of the leading sources for the discussion of Houston-area (and Texas as well) road racing. Focus and attention will be given to Houston-area runners, specifically HARRA members, that compete in outside-of-the-area events as well as those who do interesting things that aren't captured in the various media outlets, such as Inside Texas Running, Runner Triathlete News and Roberta MacInnis' Running Notebook in the Houston Chronicle (all fine publications and columns but with limitations too).

About Me

Name: WalkSports.com

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.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

New Houston-Area Running Blog and New Strider!

Doing my periodic Technorati blog search, I uncovered that Houston Striders runner Scott Effner, who finished 15th in the 35-39 age group Sunday in the HMSA Classical 25K in a time of 1:53:29, kicked off his own running blog after Sunday's race.

Check out, "On the road again ... A runner's story", at http://runnersstory.blogspot.com/ and welcome Scott to the running blog fold!

Additionally, I received the following e-mail from Steve Shepard last Friday afternoon: "Anna Saeger is a Houston Strider! Anna did her net research, came across some guy who's a member of the Striders and a Huntsville running club (can only be Jon Walk) and decided the Striders sounded like the perfect running club for her."

Anna, thanks for checking in here and welcome as a member of the Striders! The Internet! An amazing thing!

1 Comments:

Tiggs said...: Cool! Welcome Scott and Anna :); 6:51 PM