Now that I am 3 weeks removed from the race, I can fully embrace the whole experience and share some post-race thoughts about it.
Javelina Jundred 100K: The RBG Edition
Pre-Race I was as ready as I’d ever be. I put in my training time as best I could and I knew all of the races I finished this year were an accumulative effort to prepare me for the dance in the desert. Of course, this didn’t seem to curb the nervous and excited butterflies…
Moving Forward
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…
Life In A Nutshell
“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…
Angeles National Forest Trail Race 25K
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…
Cirque Du Griffith Park 12 Hour – 2018
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…
Laughing Through The Miles
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 50K 2018
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,…