Houston Running

One of the leading sources for the discussion of Houston-area (and Texas as well) road racing. Focus and attention will be given to Houston-area runners, specifically HARRA members, that compete in outside-of-the-area events as well as those who do interesting things that aren't captured in the various media outlets, such as Inside Texas Running, Runner Triathlete News and Roberta MacInnis' Running Notebook in the Houston Chronicle (all fine publications and columns but with limitations too).

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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.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Vacation Travel is Set!

Waverly and I will be flying to Denver on Sunday evening to take in Colorado and Wyoming.

(These won't be new states for her; however, it will be longer than we spent in both states our first pass through there in the summer of 2003 when we did a St. Louis-to-Mount Rushmore-to-Las Vegas drive that included five state capitals in five straight days and two towns named Waverly - Missouri and Nebraska.)

We'll be staying in Denver Sunday and Monday nights; Laramie, Wyoming on Tuesday; Cody, Wyoming on Wednesday and Thursday nights and then Lakewood, Colorado on Friday and Saturday before flying home Sunday morning.

From a running perspective, I'll be doing the 28th annual Lander Half Marathon in Wyoming on the fourth of July (Wednesday) and the Heavy Half Marathon in Leadville, Colorado on Saturday.

They will represent states No. 16 and 17 in my chase to get to 25 states in which to run a half marathon in. (Actually, the Leadville race is basically 15 miles; however, it counts for the half2run.com criteria.) It is a race that Rick Cook and Andrew Perry were going to drive to and do (and I would have probably gone along to make sure Andrew didn't get lost.)

We're going to go to Elitch Gardens amusement park (a former Six Flags park) on Monday and we'll definitely be in Yellowstone National Park all of Thursday. The rest? We usually make it up as we go. We take a look at where we need to be the next evening, see what is in between and go from there. We've seen a lot of the country that way!

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