Houston Running: Funny Race Picture from the HMSA Classical 25K

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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, November 29, 2006

Funny Race Picture from the HMSA Classical 25K

As I've stated before, I like to scan through race pictures so that I can put faces with names of runners that I don't already know. (I also check out photos of runners that I know too!)

One of the funniest moments of the day is captured in this picture (link) of my good friend and HARRA Footprints writer, Edwin Quarles.

Edwin is rounding the SE corner to begin his last lap of the 25K and HARRA President Anna Sumrall Helm can be seen within striking distance. I remember hollering out something to the effect, "You better get a move on it or the President is going to catch you." (If you click on the "next" button, you'll see that he's got a pretty big smile on his face.)

The other thing that is funny to see in pictures is when a guy is captured checking out the attractive woman that just passed him!

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I canvassed HARRA members for a Footprints story to list their top 10 "most athletic" male and female runners.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: The photographer sure took a lot of pictures of EQ. Hmm, maybe he was moving so slow it was easy to do or then again, maybe he should model :); 3:51 AM
equarles said...: hey, i'm not slow. geez...i should definitely not model. Did you see my pics from the half marathon?; 7:04 PM