Hager Adds Yet Another Hometown Race to Win Column
Thursday's 17th annual GE Run Thru The Woods 5-Miler certainly was a race that 35-year-old The Woodlands resident Kim Hager could win.
In 2003, Hager finished second to future Houston Marathon winner, Kelly Keane.
It's just that yesterday's win wasn't originally in the game plan.
The mother of two, who ran with her 6-year-old Hannah in the kids 1-mile race just 30 minutes before the start of the 5-mile race, was using Thursday's event as a training run with specific instructions from her coach.
Somewhere on the course, it kicked in that Hager wanted to make sure that somebody from The Woodlands won the event and figured -- it might as well have been her.
Cruising across the finish line in a time of 30:36.5, Hager easily defeated 26-year-old Andrea Kaylor (2nd, 31:28.6) and 36-year-old Krista Blevins (3rd, 32;33.8).
The girls cross country coach at College Park High School, Kaylor, in May, ran the Congress Avenue Mile in Austin in 5:09.05 -- good for second among all women. The former Andrea Bookout, Kaylor is a The Woodlands HS graduate who ran for Texas A&M and was the 1998 UIL 5A state champion in the 800 meters (2:12).
Blevins, at 31, ran the 2002 Las Vegas International Marathon in 3:05:46 followed by a 3:01:27 showing that fall at the Chicago Marathon.
Last month, Hager - with Ironman Florida in between - also won the return to The Woodlands of the Ten For Texas 10-Miler. (Photo courtesy of Bill Dwyer)
In 2003, Hager finished second to future Houston Marathon winner, Kelly Keane.
It's just that yesterday's win wasn't originally in the game plan.
The mother of two, who ran with her 6-year-old Hannah in the kids 1-mile race just 30 minutes before the start of the 5-mile race, was using Thursday's event as a training run with specific instructions from her coach.
Somewhere on the course, it kicked in that Hager wanted to make sure that somebody from The Woodlands won the event and figured -- it might as well have been her.
Cruising across the finish line in a time of 30:36.5, Hager easily defeated 26-year-old Andrea Kaylor (2nd, 31:28.6) and 36-year-old Krista Blevins (3rd, 32;33.8).
The girls cross country coach at College Park High School, Kaylor, in May, ran the Congress Avenue Mile in Austin in 5:09.05 -- good for second among all women. The former Andrea Bookout, Kaylor is a The Woodlands HS graduate who ran for Texas A&M and was the 1998 UIL 5A state champion in the 800 meters (2:12).
Blevins, at 31, ran the 2002 Las Vegas International Marathon in 3:05:46 followed by a 3:01:27 showing that fall at the Chicago Marathon.
Last month, Hager - with Ironman Florida in between - also won the return to The Woodlands of the Ten For Texas 10-Miler. (Photo courtesy of Bill Dwyer)
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