Hanging Out at Sunmart Packet Pickup

I've been at the Sheraton North for about an hour at 12:30 p.m. and here is who I've seen or talked to:

+ Joe and Missie Martinez of Montgomery
+ Sandy Wollangk, former president of the Houston Striders
+ Jim Harrington, defending 50K champion from Michigan (He'll probably take off at the start as if it were a 5K again.)
+ Rick Ames, Team In Training The Woodlands coach
+ Ron Berglund, Kingwood (Karen is working. Ron just came in from Denver.)
+ Joel Barr, Conroe
+ Jacqueline O'Brien-Nolen, Kingwood
+ Roger Soler, Sunmart race director from San Antonio (I had never met Roger before.)
+ Raul Najera, Run-Far from Austin
+ Ann Leoni and Carlos Ortegon, The Woodlands Running Club
+ Misty Graham-Baugh's friend who passed me in the last two miles of San Antonio
+ Wendy Terris, of Milwaukie, Oregon, who ran in the U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials and then turned around the next day and ran the Boston Marathon

There's a group of runners here from Saskatchewan, Canada.

I just had a good conversation with a woman from California who is doing the 50-Miler, but needed sight-seeing tips. She's planning on going to the Bush Library in College Station on Sunday, the Galleria and the Museum of Fine Arts on Monday before flying back.

I need to check her name - to cheer for her, of course - because there can't be too many 50-milers from California. (Update: She came back down from her hotel rooms to buy another pair of shoes from Roger Soler's table, and she was wearing a Harvard Crew sweatshirt. Turns out that she is Francesca Stone, who was an All-American in lacrosse at Harvard and is in the school's Hall of Fame.)