It’s been years since I’ve written in this blog but it’s been years since I’ve raced! Last month I traveled to Big Bend once again to tackle the insanely tough Big Bend Ultra. I wanted to document everything so there’s no better time to bring the blog back from the dead. I love this race. […]
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It’s been a month since Rocky 50. For various reasons it has taken that long to get this post finished. I started writing it, then got distracted, the edited it some, then went on spring break, then came home, wrote/edited some more. I knew I’d get it eventually. I could have scrapped it entirely but it
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I DID IT, Y’ALL!!! WHAT. A DAY. The week leading up to the race was crazy. It was the longest 7 days of my life. I spent most Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nervous-cleaning my house, doing laundry, frantically cooking, and otherwise trying to keep myself busy. Thursday and Friday was spent in The Woodlands picking
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I’ve been wanting to run Big Bend Ultra for about the last three years. I found out about the race shortly after our family trip to Big Bend Ranch State park five years ago and it’s been on my list ever since, but for one reason or another, mainly Boston, the timing never seemed to
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I haven’t said anything about BCS. I know this. I needed some time to process the race before I talked about it. BCS was supposed to be my BQ for 2019. The weather looked good. I was well trained. All signs pointed to a great race. Spoiler Alert: It wasn’t a great race. My kids
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The road to Ironman started this past Sunday, when I did my first triathlon. Cypress Triathlon was a sprint distance event held in a local neighborhood with about 1000 participants. It was a FUN event and I’m already planning on doing it again next year! I’m not going into much technical detail here because no one
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I’ve been working on this post for nearly two weeks and have found the task of writing about my trip to Boston daunting. It was emotionally overwhelming, so much so that I can’t find the words to describe how I felt. The entire trip I fought tears. On the plane up there. Driving around Boston. All
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I’ve been running a lot of trails lately. Near our house are several miles of wooded trails that run through the flood zone of a creek. I’ve always been a little afraid to wander out into the woods alone to run them but this past summer I stumbled upon a group who runs them regularly
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Two weeks ago I ran the Shiner Beer Run Half Marathon. After my relatively good performance at Virginia Beach in September on zero training (and zero sleep), I went into Shiner with the intention to fully train and to give it everything I had. I tried a different training strategy this time around, focusing on
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Labor day weekend we made a somewhat regular trip to Virginia Beach to visit family. As is tradition Jason, his brother and I ran Rock n Roll Virginia Beach half marathon together. This year the race was unique because tropical storm Hermine moved through the day before, leaving behind a half-assembled course and 35 mph
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