Seven Hills Dominates HRB at Historic RTW!
While I'm working on the official results (and it may take a very long while), I would like to congratulate president Ken Johnson and the Seven Hills Running Club for an impressive turnout and effort at today's record-shattering Run The Woodlands 5K #159.
Including Waverly and myself, who hold dual memberships in HRB and 7HRC, the Huntsville-based club registered a turnout in the mid 40's - an all-time club participation high - and ran extremely well to boot. (Rick Cook, who also holds dual memberships, was on vacation with his family.)
Additionally, the record of 127 participants from earlier this year (in January when Bill Dwyer put together a Team In Training challenge of the six (6) greater Houston-based groups and challenged The Woodlands Fit) was destroyed as there were over 170 finishers!
(Run The Woodlands 5K uses essentially what is known as a card finish system. The number of finishers is unofficial right now as there were some runners who had finished once, grabbed a card (today - tongue depressor with a number on it), placed their results on the board, but went out to pace somebody and crossed the finish line.)
The Challenge scoring will come later as will the official results; however, I have a number of people to thank and things to point out.
+ Thanks to the staff at Luke's Locker in The Woodlands. Store manager Susie Schreiber and her staff of Becky Isaac, Mary Kerschbaum, JoAnn Blakely, Cathy Steele and Tara Wilson did a heckuva job today in the face of the all-time number of participants. (Oh, Susie's husband, Brad, did a great job as always in taking pictures!)
+ Thank you to all of the members of the Houston Running Bloggers who made the trek north and made time for the event. I personally appreciate it. We'll do this again next year with Seven Hills Running Club on Saturday, June 9th, 2007.
+ HRB had three husband-wife tandems and two parent-child teams as the following ran for "the Bloggers" - PR Keith Kelleher, Barbara Boone, Vic Kaiser, Dave Smart and his son, Nicholas, Sarah Graybeal, Cassie Cowan, Edwin and Donna Quarles, Holden and Franchesa Choi, Joe and Gerlinde Carey, WaverlyWalk and finally, me.
+ Franchesa and Donna ran their debut races today! Vic did his first race in recovering from his ankle injury!
+ Barbara got to meet Joe for the first time as did Parkersburg, West Virginia natives Cassie Cowan (HRB) and Tara Wilson (of Luke's).
+ Thanks to my wife, Gena, for coordinating the delivery of ice cream sandwiches to both teams. While we lost, they were a sure hit with everyone!
+ Thanks to Bill Dwyer, Debbie Tripp and others who I may be missing for bringing Team In Training - Fall Season The Woodlands and Luke's Locker Ten For Texas training groups to the event today. (Bill: Your help with runners who finished over 107 - our places on the two boards - was nothing short of phenomenal.)
+ It was great to have John DiMarco and his son, Ryan, out to do the event for the first time in a couple of years. (Thanks guys for making the trek from Sugar Land!)
+ Always good to see two-time Ironman Nora Wilson and her ageless wonder of a husband, Lou. (It won't be long until Lou passes his age by the number of marathons that he does!)
+ I got to run part of mile 2 with the editor of the Conroe Courier, Jim Fredricks. Jim is part of Team In Training (and Bill Dwyer's group) and was the only media representative to make the event this morning. (Former running blogger Lisa Foronda of KHOU-TV Channel 11 is obviously on my mailing list and I had invited Richard Justice of The Chronicle, who lives in The Woodlands and trained for the Half this past January.)
+ Comment of the day belonged to Jeff Westergren of The Woodlands, "There was a day that I drove up at 7:50 a.m. and parked up close to the front." Yes, I was there on a day that there was 9 finishers too -- November 8, 2003. (It was the week after I did my first half marathon in 2:50!)
+ There were so many finishers that the normal amount of fluid replacement that Luke's brings out wasn't enough. The event was completely prepared for the increase that may have been accounted for with the SHRC-HRB Challenge; however, nobody EVER expected over 170!
(More to come ...)
Including Waverly and myself, who hold dual memberships in HRB and 7HRC, the Huntsville-based club registered a turnout in the mid 40's - an all-time club participation high - and ran extremely well to boot. (Rick Cook, who also holds dual memberships, was on vacation with his family.)
Additionally, the record of 127 participants from earlier this year (in January when Bill Dwyer put together a Team In Training challenge of the six (6) greater Houston-based groups and challenged The Woodlands Fit) was destroyed as there were over 170 finishers!
(Run The Woodlands 5K uses essentially what is known as a card finish system. The number of finishers is unofficial right now as there were some runners who had finished once, grabbed a card (today - tongue depressor with a number on it), placed their results on the board, but went out to pace somebody and crossed the finish line.)
The Challenge scoring will come later as will the official results; however, I have a number of people to thank and things to point out.
+ Thanks to the staff at Luke's Locker in The Woodlands. Store manager Susie Schreiber and her staff of Becky Isaac, Mary Kerschbaum, JoAnn Blakely, Cathy Steele and Tara Wilson did a heckuva job today in the face of the all-time number of participants. (Oh, Susie's husband, Brad, did a great job as always in taking pictures!)
+ Thank you to all of the members of the Houston Running Bloggers who made the trek north and made time for the event. I personally appreciate it. We'll do this again next year with Seven Hills Running Club on Saturday, June 9th, 2007.
+ HRB had three husband-wife tandems and two parent-child teams as the following ran for "the Bloggers" - PR Keith Kelleher, Barbara Boone, Vic Kaiser, Dave Smart and his son, Nicholas, Sarah Graybeal, Cassie Cowan, Edwin and Donna Quarles, Holden and Franchesa Choi, Joe and Gerlinde Carey, WaverlyWalk and finally, me.
+ Franchesa and Donna ran their debut races today! Vic did his first race in recovering from his ankle injury!
+ Barbara got to meet Joe for the first time as did Parkersburg, West Virginia natives Cassie Cowan (HRB) and Tara Wilson (of Luke's).
+ Thanks to my wife, Gena, for coordinating the delivery of ice cream sandwiches to both teams. While we lost, they were a sure hit with everyone!
+ Thanks to Bill Dwyer, Debbie Tripp and others who I may be missing for bringing Team In Training - Fall Season The Woodlands and Luke's Locker Ten For Texas training groups to the event today. (Bill: Your help with runners who finished over 107 - our places on the two boards - was nothing short of phenomenal.)
+ It was great to have John DiMarco and his son, Ryan, out to do the event for the first time in a couple of years. (Thanks guys for making the trek from Sugar Land!)
+ Always good to see two-time Ironman Nora Wilson and her ageless wonder of a husband, Lou. (It won't be long until Lou passes his age by the number of marathons that he does!)
+ I got to run part of mile 2 with the editor of the Conroe Courier, Jim Fredricks. Jim is part of Team In Training (and Bill Dwyer's group) and was the only media representative to make the event this morning. (Former running blogger Lisa Foronda of KHOU-TV Channel 11 is obviously on my mailing list and I had invited Richard Justice of The Chronicle, who lives in The Woodlands and trained for the Half this past January.)
+ Comment of the day belonged to Jeff Westergren of The Woodlands, "There was a day that I drove up at 7:50 a.m. and parked up close to the front." Yes, I was there on a day that there was 9 finishers too -- November 8, 2003. (It was the week after I did my first half marathon in 2:50!)
+ There were so many finishers that the normal amount of fluid replacement that Luke's brings out wasn't enough. The event was completely prepared for the increase that may have been accounted for with the SHRC-HRB Challenge; however, nobody EVER expected over 170!
(More to come ...)
posted by WalkSports.com | 1:02 PM
1 Comments:
Jon: On behalf of all members of the Seven Hills Running Club, thank you and the bloggers for the challenge. We not only enjoyed the inter-club competition, we believe it was beneficial for both clubs. It also introduced many runners to the RTW. As usual, Suzie, Becky and the others from Luke's Locker did a great job.
Ken Johnson
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