With my plan all laid out for me, August was meant to be a solid month of consistent training. Unfortunately, I found myself logging more zeros than I intended. Nobody ever intends to get sick, or injured, and have their training derailed by forced rest for days, even months at a time. Life itself even…
“I remember you wrote about that when you had your blog.” Eek. Had??? Those words were said to me last week and I’ll admit they stung for a millisecond. It wasn’t news to me that I let the dust settle on this blog and it’s no accident I’m posting this 2 months to the day…
As I sat down on a boulder alongside the trail, I could feel this intense wave of nausea rising quickly. I had slowly been ascending for the past hour in temperatures hovering around 100. Each step becomes increasingly more difficult the further I go. My breathing was more labored as my heart felt like it…
When I told someone the premise of the Cirque Du Griffith Park, thinking that maybe they’d like to participate, their immediate reaction was, “BORING!!” I could see why they’d think that. The idea of going around a 2.5-mile loop for 6 or 12 hours with no change in direction could sound, yeah, downright boring. Luckily…
Based on how my body feels right now, I feel like taking the rest of the week off from running. Nothing will hurt my training right now more than continuing to push my body when it’s fatigued. After I finished the Quicksilver 50K, my body started to feel “off;” more tired than usual. It was…
Quicksilver has been on my race radar for a few years now. Back in 2015, I knew my Spring 2016 race was going to come down to either Quicksilver or Miwok, and I told myself if I didn’t get into Miwok through its lottery, I’d hop on over to my second choice, Quicksilver. Of course,…
It is a new month and upon me, is a new race! Well, not exactly a new race, but a new race for me because I’ve never done it before, and I’m excited about it! There isn’t any race I go in without any sort of excitement attached to it, or else why would I…
Going into the Leona Divide 50 Mile, my body wasn’t feeling 100%. Recently, I’ve been experiencing a weird sensation on the outside of my left leg; below the hip and above the knee. It doesn’t hurt when I run. It doesn’t hurt at all. No pain whatsoever, but something is there. I can feel something…