Thursday, July 24, 2008

Tornados Host Cornelio Garibay Benefit Run

The Tornados Running Club is hosting a Benefit Run, Saturday, July 26th at 5 p.m. to raise funds for Cornelio Garibay.

Cornelio suffered a broken ankle a couple of weeks ago and has no health insurance and will be out of work for about 3 months. Cornelio has lived and raced in Houston for over 20 years. He is still one of the top runners in Houston and runs for the Al Lawrence Running Club.

This non-competitive, untimed run consists of two 2-mile loops through the HoChiMinh Trails.

We will meet by the baseball fields at the Picnic Loop, south of Memorial Drive, across from Memorial Park. There is no cost for this run, but we will gladly accept donations.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Al Lawrence's Brad Ryan Completes IM Lake Placid

Al Lawrence Running Club member Brad Ryan was one of two Houstonians and 40 Texans to finish Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday, July 20.

Ryan covered the course in 14 hours, 57 minutes and 29 seconds. He swam 2.4 miles in 1:13:39, biked 112 miles in 7:19:24 and finished the marathon in 6:06:09.

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Seabrook Lucky Trails Marathon Registration Open Soon

HARRA learned today at the 30th annual Lunar Rendezvous Run 5K (the tech shirts were nice, by the way) from race director Robby Sabban that registration for the Seabrook Lucky Trails Marathon Weekend, to be held, March 14-15, 2009, is likely to open as early as next week.

The Seabrook Lucky Trails Marathon is part of the three-race Texas Marathon Triple, which also consists of the 10th annual Texas Marathon in Kingwood on New Year's Day and the Surfside Beach Marathon to be held this year on Valentine's Day.

Entry for the first two legs of the Triple are currently $40 and $50, respectively. The Texas Marathon incurs a price increase on August 1 while the Surfside Marathon price goes up once a certain number of runners are reached.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

HARRA Club Newsletters Online

Six of HARRA's affiliated clubs have their most recent newsletters online.

Two of them, the Houston Striders and The Woodlands Running Club, have posted their latest versions of "Stridelines" and "Deer Tracks", respectively, online in the last week or so.

The Striders' July 2008 edition of "Stridelines" can be found here.

The Woodlands Running Club's most recent version is a June/July 2008 edition and can be found here.

The Bayou City Road Runners' "The Bird" and the Houston Masters Sports Association's "HMSA News" have their club's June editions online currently. "The Bird" can be found here for June, while the "HMSA News" can be accessed here.

The Brazosport Area Road Runners Association's Spring 2008 edition is viewable here.

Finally, the most recent edition of "Bay Area Running & Fitness News", produced by the Bay Area Running Club, can be seen online here.

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Wade wins 2nd Masters title at Peachtree 10K

Kenyan Way's Sean Wade, 42, is having another one of those years.

Just as he did two years ago in 2006 when he became a masters runner, the New Zealand native is once again dominating the division.

Wade easily dispatched last Friday's field at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race 10K with a winning time of 31:24. It was Wade's second win in three years at one of the world's largest road races - and the site of his appearance in the marathon of the 1996 Olympic Games.

For the second time this year, he defeated Columbia, South Carolina's Eric Ashton, 40, who finished 21 seconds behind Wade on Friday in 31:45. Three months ago at the Cooper River Bridge Run 10K in Charleston, South Carolina, Wade recorded the win with a 16-second victory over Ashton in 31:13.

This year's U.S. masters 10K and cross country champion, Wade won $1,500 in winning the masters division at Peachtree. He was third a year ago as New Mexico's Mbarak Hussein won by posting the fourth fastest masters time in the event's history with a blazing time of 29:21.

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Schroeder, Tilton-McCarthy Lead at Howdy Du

The Houston Striders' Bill Schroeder and the Al Lawrence Running Club's Lisa Tilton-McCarthy were the fastest HARRA members to finish Sunday's Howdy Du Duathlon at Berry Springs Park near Georgetown. The Howdy Du Duathlon is the second race in RunFAR's Central Texas Duathlon Series.

Schroeder, 46, was the second fastest masters male to complete the 3-mile run, 17-mile bike and 3-mile run course in 1:28:03, just 65 seconds behind Austin's Jeffrey Stuesser. He was also 9th overall while Finish Line Sports' Walt Yarrow, 41, was three spots behind in 12th in 1:29:33.

Tilton-McCarthy, 41, a week removed from a disappointing 5:51:31 Buffalo Springs Lake Ironman 70.3 finish, rebounded Sunday to finish third overall - and the second masters finisher - in 1:34:15.

Schroeder, who maintains a home in Round Rock, was fourth overall in the first race of the Duathlon Series - the Dad's Day Du - in Leander on Father's Day, Sunday, June 15. His 57:10 performance on the 2-mile run, 10-mile bike and 2-mile run course was just 32 seconds out of third in addition to being the top masters finisher.

Labels: Duathlon

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2008 Spring Series Results: Now Available

Extra, extra, read all about it.

The 2008 Spring Series Results are now available on www.harra.org.

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