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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.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

So .... Sunday was my 2nd best Half Marathon

Why? Because while perusing the letsrun.com message board, I saw the following note about last year's 3M Half Marathon on the runtex.com website:

Upon further review, the 3M Half Marathon course on Sunday was about 1/10 of a mile short of the full distance. Not a big deal, but you can add about 25-50 seconds to your time.

What happened, 3M officials concede, was the course should have turned right from Stoneway Drive--just past the 10-K mark--onto Pioneer Place and then headed north onto Shoal Creek. Instead, the course went straight onto Stoneway before turning north onto Shoal Creek, resulting in the course coming up short by 1/10 of a mile.

The error does not affect the results in any way, nor does it change the Distance
Challenge points series.

"We deeply regret the error, especially since it was a wonderful day for runners," 3M race officials said in a prepared statement. "Fortunately, so many of our racers ran well, so many volunteers worked hard and so many people enjoyed the event. We are working hard to correct the error in course set-up and promise to do better in the future."
Cheap way to move up. (Although it wouldn't have been that way if I had known about this before Sunday.) But I'll take it. :)

posted by WalkSports.com | 2:28 PM

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