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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.

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Five Interesting Notes to Start Your Weekend!

1.) Houstonian masters runner Sean Wade will face his biggest challenge of the year this weekend at the 34th annual Falmouth Road Race (7 miles) when he goes head-to-head with Albuquerque, New Mexico's Mbarak Hussein, 41, who is the defending Masters champion and 8th place overall finisher from 2005. (The confirmation list shows 13 other runners from Texas. None are HARRA members.)

2.) Hanson-Brooks' Brian Sell, who finished 4th at Boston and won the U.S. Men's Half Marathon championship here in Houston in January, will be running the 30th annual Chicago Distance Classic on Sunday. (I ran this event in 2004 and Holden Choi ran it last year.) Also running this year, according to a note on RunnersWorld.com, is veteran masters runner Dick Beardsley.

3.) According to his blog at http://www.50in50in50.com/, Sam Thompson ran with Dean Karnazes on next year's new ING Atlanta Marathon course. Karnazes, of course, shortly will begin running his version of 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. HRBer Keith Kelleher will join Karnazes in Dallas. Thompson will be running the Dallas White Rock Marathon course on Thursday, August 17th.

4.) On Tuesday, according to the USATF, Baylor freshman Erin Bedell won the junior women's 2,000 meters at The Road to Eugene '08 track meet in a time of 6:04.60. (Texas' state record holder in cross country, the 800 and 1,600 meters, Bedell is one of Texas' best ever high school runners who competed at Plano West High School.)

5.) Seven (7) Texans, including Katy's Rich Fredrich, finished the La Luz Trail Run on Sunday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fredrich, 49, was 43rd of 341 finishers covering the 9 miles in 1:55:18. (The La Luz Trail Run is a 9 mile trail run that starts near the intersection of Tramway Road and the road to the Juan Tabo Picnic Grounds in the far northeast heights of Albuquerque, NM. The race consists of 1.8 miles of paved road and 7.2 miles of dirt single track trail with a 12% grade. The race finishes at the Sandia Crest (10,678') near the gift shop located by the radio and TV towers on the crest.)

Interestingly, 19-year-old Keith Howard of Albuquerque finished 2nd in his age group (1:53:46) and less than 2 minutes in front of Fredrich. What's impressive is that Howard has cystic fibrosis.

posted by WalkSports.com | 12:26 AM

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