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.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A Writing Fiend

Yes, I know. The RunHouston Chronicle blog hasn't been updated in a little bit of time. However, I've still been writing quite a bit.

Over the next month, I'm going to try to figure out how to draw traffic to the HARRA website through the News blog that Sarah set up. Only HARRA members will be referenced there, and I think that is the right thing to do. We should recognize those who support HARRA. I had a great story fall into my lap for the April edition of Footprints, but I hesitated using it because the subject wasn't a HARRA member. (That was resolved in short order, and we have a great feature to go along with an excellent piece written by Edwin about HMSA's Sara Collazos, who will be running her first Boston Marathon next month.)

The week before last I wrote about the Texas Independence Relay in my Tuesday column as well as the "race story" of the Park to Park 5-Mile Run, which will appear in April's Footprints - in Inside Texas Running.

Last week, my Courier column was on the passing of Magnolia's Bill Phelan, who succumbed to a 28-year battle with oral cancer, plus I wrote my April "Talking The Talk" column for Runner Triathlete News about Texas now having two overnight, long distance relays and eight tips to making your next relay a successful one.

This week I was hoping to get in touch with The Woodlands Running Club president-elect Tony Allison to talk about his trip to run in the Antarctica Marathon; however, I cranked out just a routine "who, what, where, when and how" column. Then I finally finished up a story for the March edition of "Deer Tracks" on Sharon Griggs, Sarah Broyles and Carrie Davies finishing the Marathons of Texas Challenge.

There's a lot coming down the pike too ...

In the meantime, I would encourage each and every one of you reading this post to consider writing something for your running club newsletter.

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