Gary Kubiak, Treadmill on Richard Justice's Blog

I think sportswriter Richard Justice of the Chronicle is one of the best to come around in the last 30 years on the Houston sports scene. (I'd throw the Chronicle's current travel editor Harry Shattuck into that mix too. If you included high school sports, I'd add the Post's Ivy McLemore and the Chronicle's Bill McMurray and David Barron.)

Right around the time of the marathon last month, I was perusing the participants' listing and I saw Justice's name signed up for the half marathon, but I didn't know where he lived so I didn't know if it was him for sure. I e-mailed him and he said that he was trained for it, was ready to go, but had to cover the AFC semifinal games in Denver and Indianapolis that weekend.

In this blog post Wednesday, Richard had this insight about new Houston Texas head football coach Gary Kubiak:

We interviewed Kailee Wong on SportsRadio 610 Wednesday morning. He said he'd seen Gary Kubiak running on the treadmill at 6:30 many mornings and then back for a second run at 11:30. Does that qualify as a fanatic?

There's an NFL runing backs coach named Bobby Jackson. He was such a workout warrior he'd lift weights and run sprints almost everyday.

Once he pulled a muscle in his side and couldn't lift. I joked that he was going to get fat and lazy.

''I've already run on the treadmill twice today,'' he said, ''and I'm not done.''

Justice moderates his comments. So if you either 1.) make sense on an issue or 2.) make him laugh, yours gets through. I think mine qualified under the 2nd provision:

Gary's just getting ready to run the Half with you next January. Oops! That would mean that the Texans weren't in the AFC championship game. On second thought, you both will be ready by then!