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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.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

9th on Seven Hills RC Marathon Leaderboard

Make that a tie for ninth - with 21 marathons or ultramarathons - with one of the classiest and most-talented runners you'd ever want to know -- Ben Harvie.

The Seven Hills Running Club leaderboard looks like this now:

+ John Slate - 62
+ Bill Dwyer - 54 (It'll be fun to see him get No. 55 in San Antonio)
+ Hans Jaeger - 42
+ Ken Johnson - 36
+ Marvin Dittfurth - 31
+ Jerry Flanagan - 25
+ Ray Alexander - 24
+ George Stewart - 22
+ Ben Harvie / Jon Walk - 21
+ Doug Dretke - 18

I thought about going to do God's Country Marathon in Pennsylvania in two weeks, but I have to get my hip situation taken care of first - and then see how my work schedule is going to be since I'll be working on two projects (in Jackson, Mississippi and Kansas City, Missouri.)

I put in a call to a good friend of mine this evening, John DiMarco, while I was sitting on the plane in Minneapolis. I wanted to see where he was at. After St. Louis, he had completed 12 marathons in 11 states, and unfortunately had a DNF this month in New Jersey. His next marathon will be the Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon in South Dakota in the next two weekends, I believe.

I think I may look for back-to-back half marathons again to do as well.

posted by WalkSports.com | 10:19 PM

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