About: Linda Brown

Coach Andrew Fast Facts: Years Running: 12 Years with Austin Fit: 8 Number of Marathons: 5+ Half Marathons: 8+ Favorite Race: Napa-to-Sonoma Half Motto: Run now, Wine Later Goal: Be better today than I was yesterday. New PR in 2019-2020 (3:20) Andrew was a life-long soccer player, who later turned to soccer refereeing up to…

FAST FACTS: Years Running: 7 + Years with Austin Fit: 1 Number of Marathons: 2 Half Marathons: 3 Goal: Continue to be an all-around athlete focusing on endurance sports—all while still having fun. Isaac has been running and competing for over 7 years, but has been an athlete all his life. Playing in various different…

FAST FACTS: Years Running:  6 Years with Austin Fit: 2 Number of Marathons: 3 Number of Half Marathons:  6 Number of Ultras: 1 Favorite Race: The Cowtown in Ft Worth Goal:  Finish each race Jeff and his wife signed up for a running class at their gym 5 years ago.  Before the class began, he…

FAST FACTS: Years Running: 18+ Years with Austin Fit: 3 Number of Half Marathons: 9 Number of Full Marathons: 4 Favorite Race:  Galveston Sand Crab run Goal: Continue to complete marathons, half-marathons and other fun runs in other cities around the country. John began running at an early age, ran competitively in high school and…

FAST FACTS: Years Running:  20+ Years with Austin Fit:  3 # Marathons = 1; # Half Marathons = 9 Favorite Race: 3M Goal:  Have fun, keep in shape as I get older, and help others to experience and enjoy running! Brett has been coaching for three years with Austin Fit and has been running much…

FAST FACTS: Years running – 34 (first marathon in 2000) Number of Marathons – 32 Number of Ultra Marathons – 1 (Sunmart 50K Ultra Marathon) Number of Half Marathons – 16 Favorite Races – (1) Disney Marathon, (2) Sunmart 50K Ultra Marathon, (3) TCS New York City Marathon, and (4) Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon (Anchorage,…

FAST FACTS: Years with Austin Fit: 3 Half marathon: 7 Full marathon: 1 Ultra: 1 Marzi's story begins with a challenge from a friend ....1000 mile in a year ...challenge accepted !! She did that in 2016! She also joined Austin Fit in 2016 and haven’t stopped since! Marzi maintains,  she's now addicted :)

FAST FACTS: Years Running: 15 Number of Marathons- 2 Austin Full Marathon 2014 and Marine Corps Marathon 2015 Number of Half Marathons: 18 Favorite Races: 3M Half Marathon, Run For the Water 10 Miler and Marine Corps Marathon Favorite Distance: Half Marathon My Goal: To share my passion of running with others and help them…

FAST FACTS: # of Years Running: 15 years # of Years with Austin Fit: 10 years # of Full or Half Marathons: 15 half marathons, 1 marathon, & 2 Half-Ironmans Favorite race: 3M Half Goal: complete my 3rd half Ironman with my twin brother in August, Georgia this fall Betsy was a runner and race-walker…

FAST FACTS: Years Running: 10+ Years with Austin Fit: 2+ Number of Half Marathons: 6 and shooting for more Favorite Race: Austin Marathon Goal: Boston Marathon Amber has always been a runner!  In High School she did Cross Country and Track, then started doing races again in my early 30's.  She is married with 4…

FAST FACTS: Years running – 34 (first marathon in 2000) Number of Marathons – 32 Number of Ultra Marathons – 1 (Sunmart 50K Ultra Marathon) Number of Half Marathons – 16 Favorite Races – (1) Disney Marathon, (2) Sunmart 50K Ultra Marathon, (3) TCS New York City Marathon, and (4) Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon (Anchorage,…

FAST FACTS: Years Running: 20+ Years with Austin Fit: 9 Years Coaching: 9 Number of Marathons: 15 Number of Half marathons: 30+ Favorite Race: Zooma Half Marathon – Bastrop Goal (s): Break 4:30 for a Full Marathon and run healthy for many, many years Christine is retired from the US Army and was “forced” to run…

FAST FACTS: Years Running:  25+ Years with Austin Fit: 1.5 Number of Half Marathons:  15 Number of Full Marathons: 3 Favorite Race: San Antonio R&R Half Goal:  Improve full-marathon finish time and finish races feeling stronger Desirae started running in 1993 and, after finding running buddies about ten years ago, began doing full- and half-marathons. …

FAST FACTS: Years running – 8 Number of Marathons – 5 Number of Ultra Marathons – 8 Favorite Races – Berlin Marathon (Germany), J&J Reunion 25k (Camp Eagle, TX) Goals: Make the orange group a fun and welcoming group and my selected ‘epic and challenging’ trail run of the year (this year: Trans-Pecos). Roni grew…

FAST FACTS: Walking Is Life! Years with Austin Fit:  1 year Number of half marathons:  2 Goal:  María is a doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She joined Austin Fit to be and stay active, lose weight without fad diets, get in shape, and complete a half…

FAST FACTS: Years Running: ~6 - off and on Years with Austin Fit: 3 Number of Half Marathons: 1 Number of 5Ks: ~ 15 Favorite Race: Turkey Trot Goal: Finish each race About 6 years ago Coach Tami joined a walking group - thinking that running was not a game she could play in.  She…