M E M O R Y L E S S N E S S

This morning, we ran in the Klein High School Bearkat Bash for the third year. I finished in 30:21 and Liz finished in 30:27; both of us improved quite a bit over last year’s time of 31:43. And now we have new personal records!

Also, due to the fact that my birthday is on Tuesday, I managed to “win” first place in my age group (I wouldn’t have placed if I were in the 30-34 age group, but I’m still 29 for the next three days). Technically, the overall winner (who finished in 15 minutes and change) is in my age group, too, but they don’t allow duplication of awards. And to be fair, he and I were the only male participants in the 25-29 age group. But it’s still a major award and I won, to paraphrase “The Old Man” from A Christmas Story.

Here I am with my first place finisher award:

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Liz and I ran in the 2008 Chevron Houston Marathon on 1/13/2008. Liz finished in 5:31:01 and I finished in 5:50:05. It was a lot of fun! There’s more to come regarding how the race went, but for now, here are our results. (The “pictures” links don’t work yet, but they should by this Friday.)

On 1/13/2008, Liz and I are running in the Chevron Houston Marathon. This will be our first marathon; wish us luck!

For the marathon, we are raising money for the American Cancer Society; why not stop by our donation page?

We are participating in two 5K runs to begin our training for the marathon:

• 9/8: 6th Annual Bearkat Bash at Klein High School
• 9/20: Chevron Houston Marathon Kickoff Party 5K

Aww yeah!

aww yeah, that’s mine & liz’s chip time for the half-marathon today; we finished about, well, 9:36. fun stuff, aww yeah!

that’s 11:48 faster than last year (2:49:26), not bad, not bad.

time for a shower. more on this later, aww yeah. steev = quite happy with his time.

liz and i are running in the houston half-marathon on 1/14/2007.  once again, i am raising money for the american cancer society.  stop by my donation page if you want to donate.  if not, cool.

happy new year.