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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.

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Dead Man Walking on Saturday Afternoon

That is about what it turned into this afternoon as I went out to log 4.1 miles in the heat of the afternoon -- a little after 4:00 p.m. (I should have just done 2.1; however, once I had gotten past the one turn, it was 4.1 or bust!)

I can't show you the route because it isn't on the Google maps and I don't have one of those fancy map-charting devices (aka Garmin).

I ran the first 17:45 out to Spring Stuebner and then it was a run/walk fest the remainder of the way. Towards the end, I got it to a 3-minute run/1-minute walk (well, this is what happens when you take a collar for the week -- 2 days to just being lazy, 2 to lower back pain and 1 to pain at the top of the IT band) where I kept my foot turnover at about 170 steps per minute.

It was definitely not pretty as I hit the 4.1 miles in an ugly 48:08.70 -- 11:45/mile.

posted by WalkSports.com | 5:15 PM

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