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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.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Lost Runners on the Trail

The following was shared recently by Ken Johnson, president of the Seven Hills Running Club which is hosting the 28th annual Huntsville Half Marathon on Saturday, October 21st. (A perfect place to get some hill training in within a race!)

"My son, Ranger Tim (Johnson), who works at the Huntsville State Park, called me from the Park about 9:30 p.m. tonight. He said that he and a park policeman just rescued two trail runners (guy and a girl). Tim said that he heard someone yelling for help over by the dam. He got a park police officer and they took a boat over to the dam. The couple said that they were running "Ken's Course" from the Seven Hills Running Club web site, starting at 5:30 p.m., and got lost. On the way back in, Tim told the guy that Ken was his Dad. The guy said, "Tell him his course sucks."

I e-mailed Ken and asked him if I could share it, and this was Ken's response:

"Sure, Tim didn't get their name. They were around 30. Just before they picked them up in the boat, Tim saw an alligator in the water. When the couple got into the boat, the guy said that they were about to swim across the lake."

posted by WalkSports.com | 4:32 PM

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