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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.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Texas Independence Relay Team Challenge #2

Since Bill Dwyer and I had no takers to join us in the 9th annual Midnight Bike Cruise, which benefitted the Montgomery County Food Bank, on Sunday, August 12 ... it's time to have some more fun at our own expense!

So ... here comes Challenge #2 to our Texas Independence Relay teams - the "Texian Road Warriors" and the "Battling Bloggers of the Texas Republic".

On Labor Day, Monday, September 3, Bill and I will be teaming up and participating in the 2nd annual The Woodlands Adventure Race, which is being put on once again by and for the benefit of The Woodlands High School Triathlon Team. Coached by Sandra Sutherland, the team was featured in the August edition of Runner Triathlete News.

The event, which costs $50 per team, will take place at The Woodlands' Northshore Park and will start at 8 a.m. Registration information is listed in the PDF file on the link above. Please note that there is no race day registration.

If you can't participate or find somebody to compete with you, we would request that you come out and cheer us on!

Earlier in the day, I had suggested also about recommending a team name for Bill and I. Bill had sent me the initial e-mail late last night and I rattled off a number of suggestions a couple of hours later. They were as follows:

"Double Bigfoot Thunder" ... after Darryl Dawkins' favorite slam dunk
"We'll Shake The Ground"
"Three Months to Sunmart"
"No 101 For Us"
"Ironman Prelude" ... 2009 perhaps?
"We Have To Be Fast For This?"
"Chicks Will Dig Us" ... a play on words to the Chris Cagle song
"We Can Do More Than Write"
"HARRA Fully Loaded"

His family liked what will go on the registration form Saturday morning ... Double Bigfoot Thunder!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here is a thought. The soccer team in Dallas is called FC Dallas. FC is for "Futbol Club"

To go with your Parkersburg finish we can call ourselves BW Spring. We're both from Spring, BW for Blazeman Warrior.

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