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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, February 23, 2006

Thursday Trail Run / Workout

The quads have been overly sore the last couple of days from the downhill Freescale Austin Marathon course so I delayed getting back out there for a run. (After the Surfside Beach Marathon, I had zero quad pain.)

However Thursday afternoon I drove to Huntsville to meet up with Ken Johnson and to run the 6.7-mile trail at Huntsville State Park. Ken told me early on that if I wanted to run ahead that I could. But as we started running the trail (in the opposite direction that we normally do), I could still feel my quads talking to me so I told Ken that the pace was just fine.

I covered it in a leisurely 1:27:01 - which included a couple minutes of stopping to talk with Hans Jaegar, Marisa Padilla and John Cook (other Seven Hills Running Club members) who all were approaching from the opposite way on the trail as they started a half hour later.

On the way home, I stopped at Bally's in The Woodlands and added an hour on the stationary bike -- something I should have done yesterday.

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