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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.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Austin's Desiree Ficker 2nd at Ironman Kona

Ficker, 29, covered the Ironman distance (2.4 mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run) in 9:24:02 to finish second to Michellie Jones, who won in 9:18:31.

To read RunTex's report by Bob Wischnia, please click here.

The Woodlands' Emily Deppe finished 9th in her 25-29 age group with a time of 10:26:48. (I thought that Emily might had been the answer to a trivia question of being the only person to win a Run The Woodlands 5K and compete at Ironman Kona.) Actually, Deppe can be seen in this race writeup from 2000 )RTW #15) where she finished third behind Lisa Green and Bonnie Canter. But Deppe's strength is in the swim portion, where she competed collegiately for the University of Minnesota.

posted by WalkSports.com | 11:47 PM

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