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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.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Aguirre, Brown and Rios take on Des Moines Marathon

(Update, 10/23/06) Tornados Running Club president Victor Aguirre paced club member Jennifer Brown through the first half at 1:34:36 before Brown ran into problems on the back half.

Aguirre, 54, from Katy, finished in 3:22:05 (6th in his age group) while the 30-year-old Brown completed the distance in 3:42:59.

Earlier this year, Brown covered the Freescale Austin Marathon course in 3:26:36.

I found out from talking with Joe Oveido at the Huntsville Half Marathon on Saturday, October 21st that Leno Rios of Dickinson ran this marathon as well. (How did I miss him as he finished just one spot behind Jennifer? Well, his town was listed as Dickinson, Iowa instead of Texas.)

An interesting side note from Des Moines -- the winner of this past year's 2006 Houston Press/Smart Financial 5K, Scott Gall, 32, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, was fourth in the Des Moines Half Marathon today with a time of 1:10:01.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting my finish time. I should have a report posted on Thursday 10/26. Go to http://www.barefootrunner.org if interested.

Regards and Cheers!

Barefoot Rick

8:58 AM  

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