Going into the San Diego 50, I had a few main goals in mind: don’t die, don’t get injured, don’t hear any coyotes howling, have fun, and finish…in one piece. I’d like to say I succeeded on ALL of those, but there was one particular goal, I just couldn’t avoid.
Tag: trail running
what’s to come: san diego 50 mile
In a matter of minutes, it seems, I’ll be toeing the line at my second 50 Mile race, the San Diego 50. As of right now, I’m experiencing a flurry of emotions — a little nervousness tied in with a little excitement — okay, that’s pretty much it. Seeing as I participated in this race last year,…
ray miller 50k 2015
If you’ve read a few posts in the past month or so, you may have known I had a little race coming up called the Ray Miller 50K. Initially, I signed up for the 50 Mile back in July, but as time went on and training wasn’t going as well as I planned, I decided to…
angeles crest 100 mile endurance run
Most of the time as runners, we’re focused on the training plans, the miles we need to run, the fuel, clothes, shoes, weather, post-race euphoria… Somewhere along the lines we forget the races we’re training for don’t just happen automatically by the wave of someone’s magic racing wand. Planning, organizing, figuring out the logistics, and…
san diego 50 – my first 50 mile ultramarathon
Last Saturday, my eyes opened up on 1:48AM, a full 12 minutes before my alarm was set to go off and I was to hear “Lately I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep…” the first line of “Counting Stars” by OneRepublic, which has been my go-to let’s go running wake up song for the past year or so. Yes,…
final thoughts before 50 miles
I had something a little more elaborate and more well-thought of that I had written, but I tossed it and decided to make this post raw. Excuse all the grammatical mistakes that may follow. These are just last minute thoughts running through my mind and hoping I can type fast enough to get them all,…
paramount ranch trail 30k
Lately, I haven’t been much in a writing mood but here it is, my final race recap for 2014 on the Paramount Ranch Trail 30K. Almost took me the remainder of the year to write it up, and I think I’m down to a few hours, but with the holidays, work, taking naps, reading, putting gas in the…
griffith park trail 10k 2014
Let’s just say the day didn’t start out as smoothly as I would have hoped. Because this race started an hour earlier, my Sunday morning started earlier, and I was just a little tired and heat drained from the day before. Again I ate my banana and peanut butter for breakfast and afterwards, headed over to where I…