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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.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Run The Woodlands 5K to break with tradition!

Yes, it will happen in October! For the first time in its seven years of existence, the Run The Woodlands 5K (RTW) will not happen on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month.

After consulting with four of the event's most frequent runners as well as the staff at Luke's Locker in The Woodlands, the bi-monthly race in October will occur on the first and fourth Saturdays of the month -- the 7th and the 28th.

The reason for the change is the addition of the Ten for Texas 10-Miler in The Woodlands, which will be held on Saturday, October 14th.

Since all of Luke's Locker staff will be needed to put on the event that day and many of the regular runners who volunteer for RTW will be running "10 For Texas", a staffing shortage existed. Several alternatives were explored, but the best solution was to move the date of Run The Woodlands 5K up one week.

Ten For Texas was originally targeted for Saturday, October 7th but it would have conflicted with one of the top high school cross country meets in Texas, the 2006 Nike South Cross Country Invitational. It is an event that is put on with Luke's Locker's assistance.

Online registration for the Ten for Texas 10-Miler is slated to begin on Tuesday, August 1st.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Throw in the Huntsville Half on the 21st, and we've got one heck of a great racing month to look forward to - let's run them all!

6:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of the Huntsville Half, registration is now open at http://www.7hills.us

7:38 PM  

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