Mid-Week Musings
It's been awhile, hasn't it?
Got back in to town last Friday, had a chiropractor's appointment that morning and again late Saturday morning. Trying to start to get my back loosened up so I can start to work on the tight hamstrings that cause the back the problem!
In between those sessions, I had a good-in-company, but bad-in-effort abbreviated long run Saturday morning. I ran with Karen (and thanks to her for starting early for me) for about 11 miles, and I ended up only going a little over 13 before I was just worn out.
I'm sure a red-eye flight, followed by a short nap in the afternoon and about three hours of sleep Friday night/Saturday morning didn't help to be rested and ready. (And the humidity Saturday morning was just wonderful ... yes, that's sarcasm you're hearing.)
I'm over it. Went to church with Waverly Sunday morning, and spent parts of two days finishing up Christmas shopping before not getting situated - in the schedule - to get a workout in at all on Monday.
So here it is late Wednesday night (without having done anything since Saturday) and I got an hour in on the stationery bike, and will attempt to get up and run on Thursday morning here in Pasadena. And ... it is cold here!
Working on a number of new books ...
+ Almost finished with "Character Makes A Difference" by Mike Huckabee
+ Almost finished with "The Greatest Texas Sports Stories You've Never Heard" by former Abilene Reporter-News sportswriter Al Pickett
+ Just started tonight with "God On The Starting Line" by Marc Bloom
Regarding the Chevron Houston Marathon ...
+ You heard it hear first, even though it is in the media materials (and I could break it anytime I want because the press isn't exactly clamoring to write things), but the CHM and the Aramco Half will have a wave start this year. One group will go off at 7 a.m. and the next will go off at 7:10 a.m. (I've known about since late April, but my source was confidential. Therefore, I was obligated to keep it quiet. I think it is a good move however.)
+ There is nothing on the USATF web site about the National Championship Half Marathon. I suspect they're trying like the dickens to get Ryan Hall here, but who knows. I'm just surprised that we're less than three weeks away and there's no press on the event. (My question is: How do you get the average runner more excited about the sport when you're not out there pushing the big names? Honestly, I don't get it.)
+ It'll be interesting to see where the women's runners that are on the cusp of an Olympic Trials time will go -- Houston or P.F. Chang's in Arizona. Heidy Lozano and Kim Hager from the greater Houston area are close; Hager hasn't run a marathon outside of a triathlon in awhile. Lozano has. But Hager qualified in '04 and Lozano hasn't ever. I would suspect that Peggy Yetman - who qualified in '00 - will give things a shot here in Houston. (I'm sure Mr. Riley has the scoop over at his blog, which I haven't checked in awhile.) P.F. Chang's is offering pacers from the Brooks-Hanson group to those women who are on the cusp of a qualifying Trials time.
+ Finally, you have to wonder if we're still going to be going to the Roger Clemens Expo in two weekends. I've seen no movement, obviously (I guess), from Memorial Hermann with his name on their Sports Institute (even though it is ironic that Rusty Hardin, his lawyer, is representing doctors for a failed hospital that accuse Memorial Hermann of running them out of business.) I sense that since we haven't been hearing much at all from the Marathon that they might be a little busy with the image issue that this may possibly present them. (If you'll remember last year, we had a column from Roberta in mid-December talking about people potentially changing bib numbers. It has been remarkably quiet.)
Regarding my Courier column ...
+ It is online from this Tuesday and it can be found by clicking here. (If you get a chance, go to http://www.findyourdetour.com/ and vote for "Runningboy".) The column is about The Woodlands' Chris Higgins and his hope to win a contest adminstered by Runner's World and sponsored by Saturn Motors that will allow him to run across the country this summer.
+ Last week's column - which isn't online - was about The Woodlands' Susan Meyer, who is training for her first half marathon as she has lost 110 pounds overall - including 35 since she started running a year ago. (Funny story: I saw a picture in the December edition of "Deer Tracks" of her and didn't recognize her because I had never seen her without her running hat on. I'll pay more attention now!)
+ I'm trying to reach out to Gayle Wells - the wife of Woods Edge senior pastor Jeff Wells (and the former American record-holder in the marathon in the late 1970s). She's doing what I believe is her first half marathon and I'm wondering what it'll be like when the family's running focus is on her completely in a couple of weeks.
And finally ...
+ Waverly got her ACT results in the mail today. (For a seventh grader, she did wonderful!)
Her practice results, which she took a week before the actual test, were as follows:
English - 19 (43 of 75 questions right)
Mathematics - 16 (21 of 60)
Reading - 20 (22 of 40)
Science - 16 (13 of 40)
Composite - 18
Her actual results, and she took the same test in the same room with the high schoolers:
English - 19
Mathematics - 17
Reading - 18
Science - 21
Composite - 19
(The average high school senior scores a 20.)
Got back in to town last Friday, had a chiropractor's appointment that morning and again late Saturday morning. Trying to start to get my back loosened up so I can start to work on the tight hamstrings that cause the back the problem!
In between those sessions, I had a good-in-company, but bad-in-effort abbreviated long run Saturday morning. I ran with Karen (and thanks to her for starting early for me) for about 11 miles, and I ended up only going a little over 13 before I was just worn out.
I'm sure a red-eye flight, followed by a short nap in the afternoon and about three hours of sleep Friday night/Saturday morning didn't help to be rested and ready. (And the humidity Saturday morning was just wonderful ... yes, that's sarcasm you're hearing.)
I'm over it. Went to church with Waverly Sunday morning, and spent parts of two days finishing up Christmas shopping before not getting situated - in the schedule - to get a workout in at all on Monday.
So here it is late Wednesday night (without having done anything since Saturday) and I got an hour in on the stationery bike, and will attempt to get up and run on Thursday morning here in Pasadena. And ... it is cold here!
Working on a number of new books ...
+ Almost finished with "Character Makes A Difference" by Mike Huckabee
+ Almost finished with "The Greatest Texas Sports Stories You've Never Heard" by former Abilene Reporter-News sportswriter Al Pickett
+ Just started tonight with "God On The Starting Line" by Marc Bloom
Regarding the Chevron Houston Marathon ...
+ You heard it hear first, even though it is in the media materials (and I could break it anytime I want because the press isn't exactly clamoring to write things), but the CHM and the Aramco Half will have a wave start this year. One group will go off at 7 a.m. and the next will go off at 7:10 a.m. (I've known about since late April, but my source was confidential. Therefore, I was obligated to keep it quiet. I think it is a good move however.)
+ There is nothing on the USATF web site about the National Championship Half Marathon. I suspect they're trying like the dickens to get Ryan Hall here, but who knows. I'm just surprised that we're less than three weeks away and there's no press on the event. (My question is: How do you get the average runner more excited about the sport when you're not out there pushing the big names? Honestly, I don't get it.)
+ It'll be interesting to see where the women's runners that are on the cusp of an Olympic Trials time will go -- Houston or P.F. Chang's in Arizona. Heidy Lozano and Kim Hager from the greater Houston area are close; Hager hasn't run a marathon outside of a triathlon in awhile. Lozano has. But Hager qualified in '04 and Lozano hasn't ever. I would suspect that Peggy Yetman - who qualified in '00 - will give things a shot here in Houston. (I'm sure Mr. Riley has the scoop over at his blog, which I haven't checked in awhile.) P.F. Chang's is offering pacers from the Brooks-Hanson group to those women who are on the cusp of a qualifying Trials time.
+ Finally, you have to wonder if we're still going to be going to the Roger Clemens Expo in two weekends. I've seen no movement, obviously (I guess), from Memorial Hermann with his name on their Sports Institute (even though it is ironic that Rusty Hardin, his lawyer, is representing doctors for a failed hospital that accuse Memorial Hermann of running them out of business.) I sense that since we haven't been hearing much at all from the Marathon that they might be a little busy with the image issue that this may possibly present them. (If you'll remember last year, we had a column from Roberta in mid-December talking about people potentially changing bib numbers. It has been remarkably quiet.)
Regarding my Courier column ...
+ It is online from this Tuesday and it can be found by clicking here. (If you get a chance, go to http://www.findyourdetour.com/ and vote for "Runningboy".) The column is about The Woodlands' Chris Higgins and his hope to win a contest adminstered by Runner's World and sponsored by Saturn Motors that will allow him to run across the country this summer.
+ Last week's column - which isn't online - was about The Woodlands' Susan Meyer, who is training for her first half marathon as she has lost 110 pounds overall - including 35 since she started running a year ago. (Funny story: I saw a picture in the December edition of "Deer Tracks" of her and didn't recognize her because I had never seen her without her running hat on. I'll pay more attention now!)
+ I'm trying to reach out to Gayle Wells - the wife of Woods Edge senior pastor Jeff Wells (and the former American record-holder in the marathon in the late 1970s). She's doing what I believe is her first half marathon and I'm wondering what it'll be like when the family's running focus is on her completely in a couple of weeks.
And finally ...
+ Waverly got her ACT results in the mail today. (For a seventh grader, she did wonderful!)
Her practice results, which she took a week before the actual test, were as follows:
English - 19 (43 of 75 questions right)
Mathematics - 16 (21 of 60)
Reading - 20 (22 of 40)
Science - 16 (13 of 40)
Composite - 18
Her actual results, and she took the same test in the same room with the high schoolers:
English - 19
Mathematics - 17
Reading - 18
Science - 21
Composite - 19
(The average high school senior scores a 20.)
posted by WalkSports.com | 9:29 AM
6 Comments:
Gratz to Waverly!
So a wave start in 2 weeks, eh? I see the need, but the idea of keeping the herd of cattle in the 2nd wave still will be interesting...especially after the howitzer goes off.
When I spoke to Steven Karpas on the phone many weeks ago, he told me that they would pen in the first group and leave everybody else outside of it.
I've sent him an e-mail this evening indicating that I want to run with the information on the blog and to reiterate the information that he shared with me before.
Ryan Hall is lucky. without that wave start he would be eating my dust!
Way to go Waverly! Jon, we can make up that 10 minutes, no problem... LOL! How exactly do they decide who gets to run when?
Same way they assigned bib numbers, last year, by time or estimate of your time.
They'll have to keep the streets open 10 minutes longer plus whatever time it takes the last person to cross the start line. Better for the back of the pack bunch who need the extra minutes to finish in time.
Oh, I wanted to alert y'all about the January 24 showing of the movie "Spirit of the Marathon" at 7:30 p.m. across the country. It's a 1 time event and being shown at many theaters in mostly outside the Beltway locales.
http://www.marathonmovie.com/home.html
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