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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.

Friday, November 30, 2007

"Just Another Hour, Bill"

Didn't make the gym to hit the stationery bike Thursday night, but I did make it on the treadmill here on Friday morning at the hotel in Pasadena for another hour.

I have to take Delta back through Salt Lake City as I got squeezed price-wise by Continental around the Thanksgiving holidays. But I have a friend who is a gate agent at IAH and, without me saying anything or even expecting it, he got me an upgrade on Monday morning's leg from Houston to Salt Lake City.

So nice and easy today, which is going to be the theme on Sunday for the Tucson Marathon, which I hope will result in me finally being able to complete a goal and join the Fifty States Marathon Club -- with state No. 10.

Yes, unorthodox and non-textbook training, but I'm not coaching anybody that I have to maintain an expectation of following traditional norms.

If Waverly wanted to do another half, we would do it textbook -- the way that we did it last time in January '06.

Maybe a short run tomorrow morning before catching my flight to Phoenix late Saturday morning. I found out that good friend Jack McClintic, the Katy Fit director and the individual that graciously took over the Power In Motion program for HARRA, will be going back to Tucson this year. It will be good to see a familiar face there.

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