Went for a five mile walk down the greenway yesterday. Had to use Fall Risk and Rogue as handrails. When I stepped down off of sidewalks. Or embankments. Because my body was in full revolt. After spending the entirety of Saturday running. Up and down mountains. And just to add insult to actual injury. I … Continue reading Promiseland 50k++ April, 2021
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Promiseland 50k++ 2021
Went for a five mile walk down the greenway yesterday. Had to use Fall Risk and Rogue as handrails. When I stepped down off of sidewalks. Or embankments. Because my body was in full revolt. After spending the entirety of Saturday running. Up and down mountains. And just to add insult to actual injury. I … Continue reading Promiseland 50k++ 2021
Terrapin Mountain 50k
I was so ready. I was so emotionally prepared for this one. I maybe wasn’t physically prepared. But I was fully mentally and emotionally prepared. For Terrapin 50k. I’d read through all the emails. And watched Zealand’s race briefing videos. I’d even reviewed the course. Not, like, reviewed the course. Not, like, a map or … Continue reading Terrapin Mountain 50k
Holiday Lake 50k Virtual
It has been almost a year since I ran my last ultra. I have not been maintaining my fitness since then. My body is very clear on this point. But GJB and I want our Holiday Lake hats. So we needed to get our virtual run in. And we could’ve done the actual course. With, … Continue reading Holiday Lake 50k Virtual
Christmas Mountain Waterpark
Water parks in February. Wouldn’t have been my first choice. But I was in a dark place this weekend. For a few reasons. Mostly just one. One is really all it takes to send me into the darkness these days. I blame hormones. And assholes. So GJB put Christmas Mountain on the schedule. More as … Continue reading Christmas Mountain Waterpark
Holiday Lake 50k…
Ultrarunners are ridiculous. We are. We are absolutely ridiculous humans. That do ridiculous things. Without question. My new Holiday Lake 50k race shirt may be one of my most traumatic. And I didn't even run the race. But I'm gonna wear the hell out of this shirt. Let me tell you why. Got a snow … Continue reading Holiday Lake 50k…
Carvins Cove to McAfee
I was supposed to be helping out judging Forensics yesterday. The dramatic readings and poetry kind. Not the dead bodies and blood spatter kind. But then Janky Left Pinky Toe said it was cancelled. Cancelled? But if my volunteer commitments are cancelled...my people are gonna make me run 50 miles in the ice and snow. … Continue reading Carvins Cove to McAfee
Frozen Toe Not Quite 10k
So, on Wednesday I left work early. To run the virtual Frozen Toe not quite 10k. I could do this because I didn’t have any students to test that day. And I didn’t have any conviction to spend the entire day catching up on truancy phone calls. And because I didn’t have those things. I … Continue reading Frozen Toe Not Quite 10k
2020 Smashdown
Pics from Official Start of 2020 popped up in my memories today. That time the portal to chaos was opened. I’m not out there today. Today I’m here. On my couch. With coffee and books. Like all the other people afraid to peek their heads out to see how 2021 gonna act. Not because I’m … Continue reading 2020 Smashdown
Another .1 Christmas
You know in movies? When some emergency situation happens? And someone inevitably loses their shit? And just turns a standard emergency into an absolute shit show? I get angry. Like, screaming “get your shit together moron!” at the tv kind of angry. I got sucked into the rabbit hole that is Grey’s Anatomy at the … Continue reading Another .1 Christmas
