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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.

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Rodney Hayden in Tomball Friday Night

Waverly and I drove about 12 miles down FM 2920 to Main Street Crossing in Tomball to see our friend, Rodney Hayden, play an acoustic set with Jason Allen (who I like too) and Josh Ward.

I typically like to just hear Rodney, but I had heard Jason Allen once before at the River Road Run (12-Miler) in New Braunfels on a cold January Sunday morning. He's got some good stuff and a pretty good following. Rodney, I think, would have more of a "following" if he were more of a "showman", but the one thing that I like about him is that he just gets up and plays.

He played a few new songs from his fourth - and new - CD, "12 Ounce World", including two songs about his wife, Shawna, and his late mother, Laquita. The latter, "Song For Momma", brought tears to my eyes, and the song about his wife, "Waltz With Me", was equally as good. We heard that song at his Fourth of July performance in The Woodlands.
He's even got a song called, "Huntsville"! (Have to play that one for Katy!)

I had Waverly to go and ask him to play "Waltz With Me" and he mentioned - before he played it - the fact that we've seen him perform many, many times since 2001 or 2002.

We had a good time, but knowing that I had to be up at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning we left at 10:30 p.m. I'm suspecting that they kept playing until near midnight. (They started at 8 p.m.!)

posted by WalkSports.com | 9:20 PM

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