Browsing the YMCA Dallas Turkey Trot literature, I noticed that dentist Melisa Christian, who practices in the Lake Highlands area and who we featured in the Advocate years ago, won last year’s Turkey Trot in the open female division.
Looking through results, it appears she has won the race, which boasts some 40,000 entrants, five times, and she came in third in 2011.
She tends to run the 8 miles in something like 46-47 minutes (47:50 last year and 45:xx in her best), so if you want to beat her, you’ll need to clock about a 5:45 minute mile.
The male winner last year was Bobby Zeller of Flower Mound in 42:45.