When we left off, I was almost 27 miles into AR50, had a new pair of shoes and socks on, and had just picked up my first pacer Jojo. We were heading off into the trails, which I was very much looking forward to after over 20 miles of pavement. It was so nice to [...]
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Race Report: 2012 American River 50, Part 1
I am not typically a fan of multiple part race reports, but I think this deserves (and needs) 2 parts! Background After training for and running 11 marathons, I was starting to feel like I wanted something more and different when it came to my running. I had always thought about doing an ultra-marathon [...]
Race Report: 2012 Way Too Cool 50k
I have wanted to run an ultra-marathon for a very long time. I first started talking about it on the blog at the beginning of 2010, but it was probably in my head way before that. I really thought I would run one that spring, but nothing worked out with my schedule so it didn’t [...]
Race Report: 2012 Napa Valley Marathon
After almost 25 miles on Saturday, I knew I needed to eat a lot and try to get to bed really early in order to be successful at this marathon. I did the best I could at both, but sadly I didn’t fall asleep as early as I hoped. Even though this was a “training [...]
Race Report: ITR Lake Chabot 30k
Somehow I went almost a whole week without blogging which is so unlike me! I am not sure how that happened, it’s just been a busy week I guess with running, sleeping (a lot!), eating, working, and family time. I was originally signed up for the PCTR Pacifica 30k that had been previously moved from [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Race Report: 2012 CTR Crystal Springs 22 Miler
Two weekends in 2012 so far and two races done! I am on a roll. Last weekend my friend Kim told me she had signed up for a 22 mile trail race. I came home, checked my running schedule, thought about it for 2 seconds, and signed up. I didn’t have quite 22 miles on [...]
Race Report: 2012 Brazen NYD Trail Half Marathon
When we left off I had just finished a trail half marathon, yet Saturday night I was prepping for another one! New Years Eve was not spent out drinking and dancing the night away, instead I was in bed by 10pm with another early alarm set and asleep before midnight. I wouldn’t have had it [...]
Race Report: 2011 Brazen NYE Trail Half Marathon
When I saw that Brazen Racing was putting on a back to back race series for New Years Eve and New Years Day, I really wanted to participate in both. Then when I saw how well back to back half marathons fit into my training plan, I wanted to run them even more. On top [...]
