Houston Running: Montgomery County Triple Award

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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.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Montgomery County Triple Award

Courtesy of the creativity of Rick Cook, we will have an "informal" yet fun award for all of those tomorrow who either ran or worked the Montgomery County Triple -- Run Thru The Woods 5M, City of Conroe Turkey Trot 5K and Run The Woodlands 5K.

It was created in the same spirit of the Texas Trilogy Award that is given by Bandera and Rocky Raccoon 50/100M RD Joe Prusaitis to finishers of the Sunmart 50M, Bandera 100K and the Rocky Raccoon 100M.

However, Rick's design takes into account a few things:

+ We live in or on the outskirts of the piney woods of east Texas. (The pine cone)
+ The official mascot of The Woodlands is - I kid you not - Puffy, the Pine Cone. (See picture here!)
+ Conroe got started in 1881 with the establishment of a sawmill. (The use of 2x4's)

But ... we will not also be giving out computer monitors to with it!

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Long Live Puffy the Pine Cone!!!; 9:26 AM