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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, April 22, 2008

Four Texas Athletes Do IM Arizona/Boston Marathon Double

(This is what I sent to various media yesterday -- and is what people used to come to this blog for!)

Four Texas athletes completed Ironman Arizona on Sunday, April 13 and the 112th Boston Marathon today on Monday, April 21.

They are as follows, listed by their combined time in the two events:

14:34:20 - Jonathan L. Minor, 30, Temple, 10:56:07, 3:38:13
14:36:23 - Mark Hooton, 31, Lewisville, 11:19:04, 3:17:19
17:43:40 - Rachael Payne, 27, Dallas, 13:33:02, 4:10:38
19:43:33 - Nora Wilson, 51, The Woodlands, 15:06:14, 4:37:19

Minor, a Texas A&M Health Science Center medical student, ran the Boston Marathon with his 37-year-old girlfriend Jill Howard, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado. She also finished the Ironman Arizona in a time of 14:23:41. Both Minor and Howard were on the winning team, the Road Killers, of the inaugural Texas Independence Relay on March 1-2, 2008.

Wilson crashed her bike at mile 86 of Ironman Arizona in 18 mph winds (with gusts up to 25 mph). After numerous bandages and antiseptic for multiple raspberries and cuts as well as repairs to her bike to be able to complete the ride in low gear, she persevered to finish the marathon and her third career Ironman (includes two finishers at IM Coeur d'Alene.)

I do not know how many athletes from all of the finishers of Ironman Arizona did this double. There were 767 Texas finishers today in Boston.

posted by WalkSports.com | 10:01 PM

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