Just when I thought I couldn’t be more inspired by trail running and ultra-marathoning, yesterday happened. My training partner Jojo had her first 50 miler Saturday – the Lake Sonoma 50. I was lucky enough to get to be a part of her big day and try to return some of the amazing support she [...]
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Before, During, After
Before… Brand new pretty gore-tex shoes being tested for the first time (and little did I know how tested they would be!). During… A reward of beautiful views of the CA coastline after climbing some messy muddy hilly trails. A visit to the magical Muir Woods. All on a preview of the North Face [...]
To The Top
My good friend Kerry is sadly moving away in a couple of months, but the awesome part is she has created a “Bay Area Bucket List” of things she wants to do and see before she leaves. She has been checking them off left and right and I was lucky enough to get to join [...]
Race Report: 2012 CTR Golden Gate Marathon
When I first started making my training plan for AR50, I printed out the dates of all the local trail races to see what matched up. Running trail races as training runs is so great – the course is marked, there is food at the aid stations and just the general feel of trail races [...]
Today
Today I had 14-15 miles to run on trails. Today I really wanted to run farther, but I was a good girl and listened to my training plan that said this week is a cutback week even though I wanted to ignore it. Today I met up with my friend Jojo to run in the [...]
Race Report: 2012 ITR Brooks Falls Half Marathon
I had gone back and forth on running this race and still hadn’t decided on Wednesday last week. Billy must have been reading my mind because I got a message from him asking if I wanted an entry to run the inaugural Inside Trail Racing event. A quick check in with my plans and I was in, [...]
Sunrise, Sunset
Yesterday I was lucky enough to see the sunrise and the sunset the best way I know how… on a run of course! The morning started off with a drive into the hills for some trail running! My running group from work decided to switch things up and I was so excited to get to [...]
One Fear Down: Biking up Mt. Diablo
Yesterday afternoon after a morning long run cut short, an early afternoon of errands, and a desperate late lunch, Chris and I went out for a bike ride. We had debated on going for a while, but eventually just decided to go. I got my cycling clothes on, filled up our bottles, loaded my shirt [...]
Friday Favorites: Diablo Date Nights
Chris and I are both leading very busy lives right now and our schedules are often conflicted. He has been avoiding running on roads for a while now since he is still battling a foot injury, but somewhere in the last month I talked him into running trails with me and it’s been so so [...]
2011 Walnut Festival Run
I started talking with my friend Jason about The Walnut Festival Run back on New Years Eve. He had organized the race in 2010 and wanted some more help for it this year. I had never been involved with anything like this and since one of my big goals for 2010 was to be more [...]
