My personal race report and/or review of an event I participated in.
Gracie warming up with Mommy Signing Up Moving to Bend, Oregon just over a month ago, I have had the privilege of doing most my runs on beautiful trails right out my backdoor. Coming off a knee injury, this is a great way to get back into shape, running on softer terrain. So [...]
Mountains 2 Beach Marathon; 700 feet of net downhill over 18 miles – not too steep but just enough to let gravity help; starting in the quaint town of Ojai, California and ending on the beautiful beaches Ventura, CA. What I love most about this race is the fact it’s not a big, giant commercial [...]
Mountains 2 Beach Marathon; 700 feet of net downhill over 18 miles – not too steep but just enough to let gravity help; finishing on the beach in beautiful Ventura, CA; and the perfect setting to qualify for Boston. Sixteen weeks of training, four long months went into this race. The first half of training [...]
It had been six years since I last raced a half marathon, the Laughlin Half Marathon in 2008 where I set my half marathon PR. Life, work, and other race distances kept me from returning to focusing on 13.1 miles again until now. After my 70.3 distance triathlon in November 2013 I took almost three [...]
Last week I was fortunate enough to take part once again in the epic One Run For Boston coast-to-coast relay. In a previous post I wrote about my first experience participating in this event last year and was hoping this year would match the incredible experience of last. Not only did it match it but [...]
It started with a Facebook post from my friend Shaun asking if any of us wanted to join her on this cycling event. Of course I was curious and looked up more information…although very little “more” information was to be found. The website gave four distances to choose – 70 mile, 50, 30 and 15 [...]
