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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 06, 2008

Off to South Dakota for Nos. 24 and 52!

What do you do when life has kicked you in the rear end the last week?

Plan a trip to run a race -- and do it at the last minute even! (It's cheaper than therapy!)

Veronica Hoge and Joltin' Joe Carey, who needs to keep his body healed for March's Texas Independence Relay, are in Michigan this weekend running a shorter relay, but I think I read that Joe has just a couple of legs to run.

So I'm heading to Sioux Falls, South Dakota this evening to run the 11th annual Sioux Falls Half Marathon tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m.

I have a 5:50 p.m. flight to Omaha, Nebraska (reward travel, of course) and then it is a 181-mile drive to Sioux Falls. Run the race, shower, get back on the road and be home tomorrow afternoon by about 6:30 p.m.

It will be career half marathon no. 52 and "state" no. 24 (23 states and British Columbia) in the half2run.com competition.

And the weather? Showers, but 51 degrees! A glorious change versus the last two weekends!

posted by WalkSports.com | 9:56 AM

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