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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.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Post-Tour de Bayou / Looking Ahead

After Waverly and I had been home and gotten a bite to eat, we went out to do our 2.1-mile course. As it turned out, we both ran a little too soon after we had eaten and Waverly nearly bonked within the first mile given the heat and humidity. Another reason that she did is because she went out really fast in the first four-tenths of a mile - like Dad in a race!

She sucked it up though and did the loop in 25:52.03. We were longer in the first mile about a minute and a half, steady for much of the next .8 of a mile and only about 8 seconds longer in the last three-tenths of a mile were we always try to pick it up into the finish. We'll run it together the next two evenings and then she plans on running Run The Woodlands 5K #152 on Saturday to become the youngest in the Series' history to run ten (10) races.

Tomorrow evening is the LP Run (as many laps in 33:20) at St. Thomas High School. I'm not sure of the history of the limerick competition with this event; however, my fellow Houston Running Bloggers - via Joe Breda and Jan Poscovsky - have provided some limericks to enter.

Thursday night, we'll convene at the Junction Restaraunt in Huntsville with the Seven Hills Running Club for the quarterly club meeting at 7 p.m. The guest speaker will be Stacy Wagner, a registered dietitian with Huntsville Memorial Hospital, and her topic is going to be something I need to hear, "Sports Nutrition: The Long and the Short Run."

Sunday evening at 7 p.m. at Texadelphia's on Memorial Drive is our second monthly Houston Running Bloggers club meeting. We'll gather at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot to head out on a group run and I'm still working on a speaker to follow up last month's great job that was done by Tom and Mary Ann McBrayer on course certification.

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