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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.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

First Radcliffe. Now Tergat. Out in London.

In a copyrighted story by Race Results Weekly on marathonguide.com, David Monti reports that world record marathon holder Paul Tergat will not run Sunday's Flora London Marathon due to an injury.

"He had a problem with his calf beginning last week," said his manager Federico Rosa in a telephone interview from London. Rosa said they treated the problem aggressively, but that Tergat was simply not 100%. "We made the decision last night (to drop out)," he added.

Tergat, 36, was one of the favorites for victory against a stacked field, which includes multiple Olympic medalists, world champions and world record holders, like Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, Stefano Baldini of Italy, and Jaouad Gharib of Morocco. Tergat, who set the world record in Berlin in 2003, has never tasted victory at London, the race where he made his marathon debut in 2001 when he finished second. He was also second in 2002, fourth in 2003, and eighth in 2005.

"He was in the shape of his life," added Rosa, "even better than Robert (Kipkoech Cheruiyot)," who won Monday's BAA Boston Marathon. Cheruiyot is a training partner of Tergat's.

Sunday's Flora London Marathon is the second race in the World Marathon Majors series.

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