Cook gets in Western States; Here in Tucson!
Congratulations goes out today to two individuals --
1.) Rick Cook for gaining a lottery spot in the Western States 100 this summer. He is one of 10 Texans to win a spot in today's lottery as well as one of two runners from The Woodlands. The other being Pat Shannon.
2.) Fellow TIR teammate Karen Felicidario for nailing her 18-mile training run today in Kingwood. Great job!
The karma must have been working one particular street in The Woodlands today. The two of them lives two houses apart from one another!
I'm here in Tucson this evening relaxing for tomorrow's Tucson Marathon.
Flew into Phoenix today, got out of the rental car complex at around 2 p.m. and got to the hotel - in what is known as Oro Valley - where the Expo was (very small) at about 4 p.m. (Cops are everywhere on the Interstate even though there are parts of I-10 that you can drive 75 out here.)
Have already eaten (Olive Garden was packed so I dove-tailed - in the same parking lot - over to Jason's Deli), put away at least a quart of water (as it is dry here) already and am looking forward to taking this thing easy and getting state No. 10.
I spoke to the guy with the Ragnar Relays. They were at the "Expo" and have four different relays - one in Arizona, Wisconsin & Minnesota, Utah and Washington. I saw their ad in Running Times on the way out today and he said that they've talked with Jay and Joy Hilscher with the Texas Independence Relay.
There are supposed to be some other folks from Houston here including the Tornados' Jennifer Brown (faster) and Cindy Laidlaw (fast), Paul Cooley and Clark Courtright of the Houston Masters Sports Association as well as Houston Fit's Claire Greenberg and Al Lawrence Running Club's Mari McCain.
The most odd thing that I didn't expect to see driving from Phoenix to here? Cotton fields along the interstate. You just don't think of that when you think of Arizona - or at least I didn't. Learn something new every day.
The marathon starts at 7:30 a.m. and we're on Mountain time here. I was told that there really was no time benefit on the marathon because of the downhill nature of the course - because of the fact that you don't want to tear up your quads. The woman said that if someone was running the half marathon, they might PR here. [Believe me, I'm NOT looking for a PR here. Just looking to finish - and hopefully to be respectable.]
Regardless, it will be nice long training run for Sunmart next Saturday.
1.) Rick Cook for gaining a lottery spot in the Western States 100 this summer. He is one of 10 Texans to win a spot in today's lottery as well as one of two runners from The Woodlands. The other being Pat Shannon.
2.) Fellow TIR teammate Karen Felicidario for nailing her 18-mile training run today in Kingwood. Great job!
The karma must have been working one particular street in The Woodlands today. The two of them lives two houses apart from one another!
I'm here in Tucson this evening relaxing for tomorrow's Tucson Marathon.
Flew into Phoenix today, got out of the rental car complex at around 2 p.m. and got to the hotel - in what is known as Oro Valley - where the Expo was (very small) at about 4 p.m. (Cops are everywhere on the Interstate even though there are parts of I-10 that you can drive 75 out here.)
Have already eaten (Olive Garden was packed so I dove-tailed - in the same parking lot - over to Jason's Deli), put away at least a quart of water (as it is dry here) already and am looking forward to taking this thing easy and getting state No. 10.
I spoke to the guy with the Ragnar Relays. They were at the "Expo" and have four different relays - one in Arizona, Wisconsin & Minnesota, Utah and Washington. I saw their ad in Running Times on the way out today and he said that they've talked with Jay and Joy Hilscher with the Texas Independence Relay.
There are supposed to be some other folks from Houston here including the Tornados' Jennifer Brown (faster) and Cindy Laidlaw (fast), Paul Cooley and Clark Courtright of the Houston Masters Sports Association as well as Houston Fit's Claire Greenberg and Al Lawrence Running Club's Mari McCain.
The most odd thing that I didn't expect to see driving from Phoenix to here? Cotton fields along the interstate. You just don't think of that when you think of Arizona - or at least I didn't. Learn something new every day.
The marathon starts at 7:30 a.m. and we're on Mountain time here. I was told that there really was no time benefit on the marathon because of the downhill nature of the course - because of the fact that you don't want to tear up your quads. The woman said that if someone was running the half marathon, they might PR here. [Believe me, I'm NOT looking for a PR here. Just looking to finish - and hopefully to be respectable.]
Regardless, it will be nice long training run for Sunmart next Saturday.
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