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WS 100 prologue/retrospective
WS 100 warm-up, road/speed edition. Squaw Valley Half marathon. When I made my #womanup goal this year "cultivate unfuckwithable baddassery", I was not even sure what that meant. I just knew that I...
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WS 100- round up
Photo by Oiselle Wow, WS 100 2016 is in the books. What a journey, what an adventure. I have already posted my race recap over on the Oiselle blog, so I just wanted to pull together a few resources in...
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Strengthening my weakest link
I only ever want to be laid out by giving it my all, not by getting ill. "Sickly D"- that was my college boyfriend's nickname for me. And pretty much sums up my entire life. For someone remarkable...
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Lessons of the pink mohawk
I have a pink mohawk. It is pretty fun. Before I got it, I thought about it for a long time. Wasn't it too drastic, what if I didn't like it, what if it didn't turn out well, what would people think,...
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Best laid plans
Racing is easy, the path and way forward are clear (well, generally at least!) Photo by Let's Wander Photography It's easy to trust the process when the process is easy, when the path and progress are...
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First Pancake- Caumsett 50km National Road Championship
"Beyond the mountains there are more mountains"- Haitian proverb I've written a lot of blog post beginnings over the last 3 months time since my last post. But they have never really resonated with me...
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The Physics of Vulnerability
Laughably what the actual fuck If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability. Fortune may favor the bold, but so does failure. Once we fall in the service of...
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Bend or Break, free
Embracing failure without acknowledging the real hurt and fear that it can cause, or the complex journey that underlies rising strong, is gold-plating grit. To strip failure of its real emotional...
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The Art of Unlearning
Women Run Strong Panel w/ Kelly Roberts, Susie Chan and Sophie Walker. Photo by @annarachphotography. What seems like forever ago now, on April 21st whilst in London for the marathon, I had the...
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Strength
Sarah Bard and I all smiles at the finish line of Comrades 2017. I can't believe I am doing this (terror- early miles)I can't believe I am doing this!!!! (elation- finishing straight)This is so hard....
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Leadville 100 mile
Photo by Glen Delman Photography "I have one goal" I told my husband before this past Saturday's Leadville 100. "I want to be the happiest person out there."And while I will never be able to...
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Plot Twist
Savoring a fried egg sandwich at my bakery post race. I've been throughly enjoying my off season. I've been basking in the down time, the lack of structure and enjoyed running when I feel good and...
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Beyond #metoo: The power to change the paradigm.
I have been ruminating a lot over the last few weeks about the #metoo campaign. I have gone through a great spectrum of emotions about it, everything from pride to anger. These emotions have swirled...
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Elastic Heart
Sunrise cruise. Photo by Kim Gaylord This post has languished there for a while. Dangled there really, making me want to give it a good punch in the throat. I didn’t know what more I wanted to say. If...
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How far it goes- Houston Marathon 2019
It is hard to describe the feeling of crossing the finish line on Sunday. It is hard to explain how far away I felt from the person I was when I ran the Olympic Trials in 2012. When I was running...
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Zebra woman
A zebra hugging a giraffe. "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras" That has been my approach in life to all that ails me, whether illness or injury. I am not unique and my problems are...
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Return to myself
It has been approximately 713 days since my last blog. I never really intended to stop blogging but found over 2018 and 2019 it just kind of faded away. Into nothingness. And then I just never got my...
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Performative okayness
I have been through a great deal in my life. Some of it I have shared over the years on this blog, other things I have shared with no one, other things I didn’t think to share because at a certain...
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UTMB, not for me.
Chronic and autoimmune disorders are invisible. Do I look sick to you? I will say right off the bat, so you don’t get it twisted, I am 100% in favor of drug testing in ultra running. Especially in...
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Umstead 100 Race Report
Photo by Dennis Geiser I am a few days removed from Umstead. It is the time when the race starts to feel like it is fading in the rear view, that the typical post-race blues, the WTF did I even do’s,...
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