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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, April 30, 2008

Tuesday's Recovery Run/Workout

I should have done a little bit of something on Monday; however, the day -- and me being dead tired from the weekend (sheesh, I wonder why!) -- got away from me.

And with some behind-the-scenes information provided to me by Steven Karpas with the Chevron Houston Marathon on the new ABB Team Challenge when I got home from the office, I almost missed getting in a good hour on the stationery bike before I went to track night at Knox Junior High.

Nonetheless, a got a good hard hour in. (Maybe it should have been easy, but I did want to work up a sweat.)

I realized that I'm still a little banged up from Sunday. Maybe the recovery as you get a bit older is really real. :)

I did a steady mile (11:23 - laps of 2:49, 2:52, 2:51 and 2:51) in lane 2 and then went two slower miles with Juliee Sparks out in lane 6 and 7.

Juliee was celebrating her 32nd birthday yesterday. Mr. Relentless - that's Bill - was waiting for her to make a lap as he got everyone to sing Happy Birthday! to her.

I think Bill said it best that being out in that supportive, work-to-achieve the same goal environment with your friends is better than any money that you can ever spend on therapy.

1 Comments:

Blogger equarles said...

if only juliee had timed her pregnancy better...geez....

6:47 PM  

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