Let me give away the ending by telling you that this was not my fastest 10 miles – not by a longshot! – but it was easily one of my favorite races of all time. Why? Well, lemme tell you all about it: Our story actually begins many, many months ago when UltraIronHubs was trolling […]
Fourteen Mile Friday
Before I tell you about my 14-miler today, lemme tell you about something that happened on Wednesday: Poor Ethel! (My last car was a bright red Camry named Lucy. When we brought home this big ol’ Mom-mobile and parked it in the garage next to Lucy, it was sort of inevitable to name her Ethel.) […]
Confessions of a Newbie Trail Runner
I am nothing if not pigheaded and stubborn doggedly determined. After last week’s less-than-stellar showing at the She Rocks the Trails race, I decided that trail running is my new “thing.” I can and will and must turn myself into the sort of runner who can go up and down steep hills, leap over rocks […]
She Rocks the Trails 25K–Race Report!
I’ve been running for several years now, and I think I’ve pretty much got the hang of it. I’ve run quite a few races and had such a great racing season in 2011 that I PR’d pretty much everything I ran. I guess you could say I was getting a little confident in my abilities, […]
