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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.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

TIR Tuesday Update

I've been tinkering with the leg assignments a little bit and I may be able to pull off one van swap AND get everyone, but me, between 15 and 20 miles (which makes me happy).

As I've mentioned before, Edwin, Cassie and I have all invites outstanding - in that order - to get our team back to 12. I'm hoping that one of theirs and mine comes through as that would give us 6 men and 6 women on our team.

If that is the case, what we would do is the following:

+ Guys would run legs 1-6.
+ Gals would run legs 7-12.
+ Do a van swap before the start of leg 13.
+ Those two vans would then stay the same the rest of the way - with three men and three women each.
+ The extra legs have already been slotted to balance the miles out.

The mileage distances would look like this:

13.13 (me), 20.14, 16.67, 17.8, 19.24, 16.97, 16.43, 15.13, 17.22, 17.17, 17.16 and 15.08.

Based on my pace estimates for everyone, and getting the two people that I hope I can, we may be able to get a 7:30 a.m. start time in Gonzales (which would put us in downtown Houston by 11:20 a.m.)

Our projected finish would then be 31 hours, 42 minutes - finishing at 3:15 p.m. (just in time for some pizza and good Texas born-and-bred country music at the Monument!)

3 Comments:

Blogger Bill D said...

I estimate or group at 31 hours 41 minutes.

11:04 AM  
Blogger Tiggs said...

Jon- I don't care how far I run...short or long.

Still waiting on my guy- he's checking with work.

Bill D- Ha ha. not!

12:15 PM  
Blogger WalkSports.com said...

We're in good shape to win our Throwdown challenge with the Road Warriors. :)

Besides, I'm taking the short leg that finishes at the Brewery. Not that we have any alcoholics on our team, it just keeps everyone from getting detoured anyway. :)

12:22 PM  

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