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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.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

101 Miles, 8 Running Stores

Once Sarah Graybeal yesterday finished putting together the flyer for HARRA's Party In The Park, coming up on Saturday, August 26th at Memorial Park, it was my job today to distribute flyers to the various running stores around the greater Houston area.

The only two I wasn't able to get to because I didn't hit the first store at 12 noon was On The Run in Clear Lake and Finish Line Sports in Sugar Land. (Maybe tomorrow!)

Here was the rundown (for fun):

+ Luke's Locker in The Woodlands (8.9 miles)
+ Fleet Feet Sports in Champions (18.5 miles)
+ Finish Strong Sports (24.3 miles and a couple of bucks on the toll road)
+ Fleet Feet Sports on Woodway (7.9 miles)
+ Tri On The Run on Memorial Drive (5.3 miles)
+ Luke's Locker on West Gray (1.5 miles)
+ RunSport on Richmond (1.5 miles)
+ Fleet Feet Sports in Rice Village (1.8 miles)

And another 19.4 miles home made it 101.1 miles - in my car!

This kind of looks like Rick Cook's plan in early October to conquer the Arkansas Traveller 100.

+ Talked to Andrew Perry at Luke's Locker in The Woodlands. The Caney Creek '06 graduate who competed at the 4A state cross country meet this year will be going to school in Hobbs, New Mexico at College of the Southwest (NAIA) to run for former San Antonio Antonian head coach Devlyn Lovell.
+ Saw Dave Gentry, a good friend from Run The Woodlands 5K, running the shop at the Champions location.
+ Store owner Raymond Cooper was in working at Finish Strong Sports. (Saw flyers there from Rocky Raccoon 50k/25k and the Huntsville Half Marathon.)
+ Met store owner Kevin Landry at Tri On The Run and got a chance to see and say Hi! to Sean Wade there as well. (Never know who you are going to run into.)
+ Had a good visit with store manager Rick Wood at Luke's on West Gray.
+ Met and talked to Bart Hornberger at Fleet Feet Sports' store in the Rice Village.

Finish Strong Sports and RunSport have vehicles with custom paint jobs to promote their store while Sean tools around in a jeep that prominently displays his Kenyan Way program.

1 Comments:

Blogger Sarah said...

I can handle On The Run if you haven't made it there yet.

9:18 AM  

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