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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).

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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 10, 2005

The Woodlands' Jim Braden is THE MAN!

I've often talked about in this blog about The Woodlands' Jim Braden, who turned 70 earlier this year. Braden ran the NYC Marathon on Sunday in 3:59:01. (By comparison, Jim ran Houston this past January, at 69, in 3:40:59.)

The top five (5) - out of 103 finishers - in the 70-74 age group in New York City looked like this:

1.) Phillippe Pinon, 72, France, 3:45:01
2.) Lido Mannucci, 73, Italy, 3:46:53
3.) Orazio Rampani, 71, Italy, 3:49:39
4.) Mikio Kashiwagi, 70, Japan, 3:57:50
5.) Jim Braden, 70, TX, USA, 3:59:01

Read his race report (you have to scroll down a little bit) on the Team Woodlands Team in Training web site.

3 Comments:

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

That is a cool report-wow, i hope I can keep WALKING at age 70, let alone run!
-Jessica

8:33 AM  
Blogger Tiggs said...

wow, how awesome!!! This guy rules!


Jess- think about it- me, you, NYC in 2050. Can we make it a date? hehehehe

11:15 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

That was a nice race report. What a guy. I'm so loving reading good race reports, especially marathon reports. I'm pumped already for 2007. I'm gonna do it.

9:00 PM  

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