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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.

Monday, February 02, 2009

How Bill Crews Remission Run 5K Stacks Up?

I'll comment more later on how Saturday's Bill Crews Remission Run 5K was on a global basis, but the early comments are that it was a smashing success!

For those of you who have access to this blog and if you came out, thank you!

I hope that you had a very good time, understood and appreciated the cause and recognized that we set out to do something completely different. I feel like the team succeeded.

Being a numbers guy though, this is how I often measure success.

It isn't the only way, but it is often one of them:

362 - Spring Fever 5K, The Woodlands, 2007 (1st year; Roger and Anne Gilmore Smith were RD's)
272 - YMCA Trail Run 5K, Conroe, 2008 (3rd Year; Hard to outdo Roxanne Davis)
224 - Muddy Trails 5K, The Woodlands, 2008 (Debut)
207 - Spring Fever 5K, The Woodlands, 2008 (2nd Year; New RD's; CATW Parks and Rec takes over this year)
204 - YMCA Trail Run 5K, Conroe, 2007 (2nd Year)
195 - Bill Crews Remission Run 5K, Conroe, 2009 (Debut) ... we actually had 204 times, but didn't have more tags listed ... so we're good for 195!
175 - David's Dream Run 5K, The Woodlands, 2008
167 - David's Dream Run 5K, The Woodlands, 2007
74 - BMI Fun Run 5K, Conroe, 2008 (1st Year after a year layoff from '06 cross country; no finishing numbers from that year ... Bill Dwyer ran this one fairly well; the '06 version)
71 - City of Conroe Turkey Trot 5K, Conroe, 2007 (3rd Year)
65 - City of Conroe Turkey Trot 5K, Conroe, 2008 (4th Year)
65 - Willis Wildkat 5K, Willis, 2008 (3rd Year)
48 - Willis Wildkat 5K, Willis, 2007 (2nd Year)
42 - Willis Wildkat 5K, Willis, 2006 (Debut)

Bigger than all but one Run The Woodlands 5K - the November '06 Run For Hans RTW that Beth Whitehead spearheaded.

posted by WalkSports.com | 3:44 PM

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