Houston Running

One of the leading sources for the discussion of Houston-area (and Texas as well) road racing. Focus and attention will be given to Houston-area runners, specifically HARRA members, that compete in outside-of-the-area events as well as those who do interesting things that aren't captured in the various media outlets, such as Inside Texas Running, Runner Triathlete News and Roberta MacInnis' Running Notebook in the Houston Chronicle (all fine publications and columns but with limitations too).

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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.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Entering Leg 23 ....

...the Texian Road Warriors had a minute and 40-second lead over The Battling Bloggers of the Texas Republic in a spirited and tense battle that had been nip and tuck all day long.

Twice Juliee Sparks opened up significant leads of 20-plus and 8 minutes, in head-to-head matchups against Edwin Quarles, who particularly battled with the heat, in leg 7 going through Moulton.

But leg 23 went into Wallis and it was a matchup of the captains of both teams.

Tune in later for all of the details of this classic Texas Tough Throwndown.

(Karen, Sarah, Jose, Tommy, Edwin and Joe are asleep right now and Manny, Cassie, Adrienne, Katy, Holden and Dave are out on the course.)

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Go Bloggers!!! At lest one of you is living up to our name and blogging "on the run!"

5:31 AM  
Blogger equarles said...

Juliee Sparks is one excellent runner. I thought I was gonna be buried in Moulton.

7:11 PM  
Blogger Sarah said...

Woohoo, we finished!
I am still SO tired.

5:45 AM  
Blogger Barbara said...

I think you guys must all still be tired, or else getting back to the real life. I keep scoping blogs, waiting for minute-by-minute details of the weekend!

3:00 PM  

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