The Montgomery County Triple comes to you as a result of the creativity of The Woodlands ultrarunner Rick Cook, who recently completed his first 100-Miler this October at the Arkansas Traveller 100.
It was created during the Thanksgiving Day Weekend of 2006 and it requires an individual to run or work the Run Thru The Woods 5-Miler (in its 18th year in 2007), the City of Conroe Turkey Trot 5K (in its 3rd year) and the Run The Woodlands 5K.
It was created in the same spirit of the Texas Trilogy Award that is given by Bandera and Rock Raccoon 50/100-Mile race director Joe Prusaitis to the finishers of the Sunmart 50-Miler, Bandera 100K and the Rocky Raccoon 100-Miler.
Rick's design for the award takes into account three things:
+ We live in or on the outskirts of the piney woods of east Texas. (The pine cone)
+ The official mascot of The Woodlands is Puffy, the Pine Cone.
+ Conroe got started in 1881 with the establishment of a sawmill. (The use of 2x4's)
A spring version of the award was inaugurated in May 2007 to encourage runners to race the YMCA Trail Run 5K in Conroe, the David's Dream Run 5K in The Woodlands and Run The Woodlands 5K on three (3) consecutive weekends.
Why do we go to the trouble? To support road racing in Montgomery County!
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