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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.

Friday, December 05, 2008

Friday Night El Stinko Run

Miles are miles, right?

Put down 4.25 miles for Friday night, December 5, 2008, but it isn't what I would have liked.

The 4+ mile loop that I run in my subdivision includes 1.77 miles to Spring Steubner and another 2.48 back to the house for a total of 4.25 miles.

The breakdown looked like this:

1.77 miles - 18:36.4 - 10:30.7/pace
2.48 miles - 26:40.7 - 10:45.4/pace
4.25 miles - 45:17.0 - 10:39.3/pace

But it is better than nothing.

My dinner table this evening at the Sunmart Pre-Race Dinner included Ken and Marilynn Johnson, Norman Langwell, Jr., Bill Dwyer, Misty Graham-Baugh and Robert Duncan and his sister and her friend from Baton Rouge.

Bill and I stayed to listen to the current 3,000 meter and 5,000 meter American record holder Bob Kennedy of Indianapolis, Indiana. Good speaker, but I think he could have been a little bit more prepared to try and focus in on something stronger that was relevant to ultrarunners.

Before I left, I noticed other Seven Hills members J.C. Guzman, Christopher Wilson and Felix Montelongo.

It should be a great day for runners tomorrow. I, in the meantime, am going to have fun out there myself. :)

1 Comments:

Blogger Adrienne Langelier, MA said...

Good Luck at the Decker Half! Good to hang out with you all this morning!

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