Correction: Sell will return to Houston
This just goes to show the type of journalists that we have in this town!
A former sports editor of the Lufkin Daily News, Edwin Quarles, who writes for HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and will be included in a piece in February for Runner Triathlete News on the area's running specialty stores, has been in contact with the folks at Michigan's Hanson Brooks Distance Project and Team USA Minnesota, which is a part of the U.S. Distance Project, and he will be reporting on his blog who will be coming to Houston from those two groups.
In addition, Sell actually announced during a December 22, 2006 podcast interview with TrackandFieldRadio.com that he would be returning to Houston on Sunday, January 14th.
Sell indicated that his mileage the week prior to the interview was 138 miles and that he and his wife, who is a nurse, would be expecting their first child in June.
I inaccurately surmised below that since Sell had a pretty good chance of nailing an Olympic spot that he wouldn't go back-to-back and this was not even knowing that the Ohme 30K had been moved up two weeks to February 4th. I learned that from some folks on the Houston Marathon's Elite Athlete Committee. (They've assured me that once they are in a position to release who is coming that I'll be among the first to know.)
The Detroit Free Press' Olympics writer Jo-Ann Barnas reports in this December 20th article that last year's USATF half marathon national champion Brian Sell will not return to the Aramco Houston Half Marathon this January to defend his title.
Sell, who ran 2:10:47 at October's Chicago Marathon, will in February "join five other Hansons runners for a 30K race in Japan," according to Barnas. The race is the Ohme-Hochi 30K in Ohme, Japan.
One excellent long-distance runner that I spoke with didn't rule out that somebody like Sell would do both.
"The Ohme 30K is the most prestigious 30K race in the world, so I highly doubt that those same runners would double," the individual said. "However, it is not out of the question that perhaps some of the stronger guys would run both, but due to the timing between races, this seems unlikely."
A former sports editor of the Lufkin Daily News, Edwin Quarles, who writes for HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and will be included in a piece in February for Runner Triathlete News on the area's running specialty stores, has been in contact with the folks at Michigan's Hanson Brooks Distance Project and Team USA Minnesota, which is a part of the U.S. Distance Project, and he will be reporting on his blog who will be coming to Houston from those two groups.
In addition, Sell actually announced during a December 22, 2006 podcast interview with TrackandFieldRadio.com that he would be returning to Houston on Sunday, January 14th.
Sell indicated that his mileage the week prior to the interview was 138 miles and that he and his wife, who is a nurse, would be expecting their first child in June.
I inaccurately surmised below that since Sell had a pretty good chance of nailing an Olympic spot that he wouldn't go back-to-back and this was not even knowing that the Ohme 30K had been moved up two weeks to February 4th. I learned that from some folks on the Houston Marathon's Elite Athlete Committee. (They've assured me that once they are in a position to release who is coming that I'll be among the first to know.)
The Detroit Free Press' Olympics writer Jo-Ann Barnas reports in this December 20th article that last year's USATF half marathon national champion Brian Sell will not return to the Aramco Houston Half Marathon this January to defend his title.
Sell, who ran 2:10:47 at October's Chicago Marathon, will in February "join five other Hansons runners for a 30K race in Japan," according to Barnas. The race is the Ohme-Hochi 30K in Ohme, Japan.
One excellent long-distance runner that I spoke with didn't rule out that somebody like Sell would do both.
"The Ohme 30K is the most prestigious 30K race in the world, so I highly doubt that those same runners would double," the individual said. "However, it is not out of the question that perhaps some of the stronger guys would run both, but due to the timing between races, this seems unlikely."
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