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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, November 25, 2005

Turkey Day Event Stats!

In Houston (by overall finishers) .....
First Choice ER Run Thru The Woods 5M - 1,328
TXU Energy Uptown Turkey Trot 5K - 1,032
TXU Energy Uptown Turkey Trot 10K - 857
Sean Scroggins SNB Turkey Trot 5M - 497
First Choice ER Run Thru The Woods Kids 1M - 419
Cinco Ranch Turkey 5K - 205

Across Texas (by overall finishers) .....
Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot 8M - 3,838
Austin Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot 5M - 1,767

What initially piqued my curiosity was what I thought the depth of the field at the Run Thru The Woods 5M was. When I just took a look at the number of runners posting gun times of under 6 minutes per mile, there were 27 while there were just 22 at the TXU Energy Uptown Turkey Trot 10K. Here are the rankings:

Run Thru The Woods 5M - 27 (2.03% of the entire field)
TXU Energy Turkey Trot 10K - 22 (2.56%)
Sean Scroggins SNB Turkey Trot 5K - 10 (2.01%)
TXU Energy Turkey Trot 5K - 19 (1.84%)
Cinco Ranch Turkey 5K - 3 (1.46%)

Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot 8M - 43 (1.12%)
Austin Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot 5M - 27 (1.53%)

Which is the strongest field? Do you take it out to 6- or 7-minute milers to determine the depth of the quality of the field? Or just simply the more number of faster runners make it a tougher race?

posted by WalkSports.com | 3:07 AM

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