Houston Running: Bricktown Saturday Evening

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Name: WalkSports.com

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.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Bricktown Saturday Evening

After filing my column with the Conroe Courier this evening (and after Waverly got a bit of a nap), we went back to downtown Oklahoma City in the Bricktown area.

We went to Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill for dinner. (I knew it would be a little pricey, but not outrageous. Just given that it is in a downtown entertainment district; however, it is a one-time thing.) We thought that the wait was going to be an hour and a half to two hours, but it only ended up being about 35-45 minutes.

The food surprisingly was excellent. I didn't have a runner's meal and I'm quite sure that somewhere at about mile 4 I'll get a reminder of what I had last night. :)

The baseball stadium for their AAA minor league baseball team (the Oklahoma Redhawks) is the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark and it is absolutely gorgeous. Outside they have full body statues of Hall of Famers Johnny Bench and Mickey Mantle as well as head statues of the Waner Brothers (former Pittsburgh Pirates who were on the '27 World Series team), Carl Hubbell, Bobby Murcer and Allie Reynolds. Cool stuff if you're a baseball fan!

Tomorrow will be interesting. Everything about this Marathon here in OKC that I've seen is absolutely first-class.

1 Comments:

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