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.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

My Friends Are Good: Part 2,451

I sent my cultured Battling Blogger teammate, Mr. Carey, a note last evening:

"When I told Waverly this evening at the Astros game that the BARC Mile 4 water station was going to be a POD, she very quickly said that is could also be a "Point of Dehydration" too! That's why I'm not as smart as my 8th grader!"

Mr. Carey wrote back this morning:

"That's clever! We will use it. One can never be as smart as one's 8th grader .... didn't you study Walk's Laws of Intelligence Relativity in physics?"

Physics? What's physics? :)

My Dad had been given tickets to Friday night's Astros game with the Braves and the plan was for me, my Dad, Waverly and my grandfather to go to the game together. My grandfather's 85 and I just never know when it will be their last trip down.

Neither one of them ended up going and I didn't find this out until I checked my voice mail on my cell phone at 5:15 p.m. Friday. Before a 7:05 p.m. first pitch! I talked to Cassie and Sarah (knowing that they both enjoyed baseball) but both of them had obligations. (I even tried Bill, but he wasn't answering his phone around about that time.)

1 Comments:

Blogger Tiggs said...

:( I wanted to go :( stupid job

1:24 PM  

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