When local Pearl iZUMi rep Heather Culig first facebooked me – I guess that’s how this stuff happens – about being a part of Team iZUMi Mountain States for 2012, my first question was, Um, Heather, have you ever actually looked at my race record? Slow, average, ultra-shufflers don’t get sponsorships. Then she set me [...]
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Antelope Island Buffalo Run 100M, Ogden, Utah – March 25 & 26, 2011 Davina: On Tuesday March 22nd, Emily mentioned that she would like to go watch our friend Sam run and pace him to get that coveted 100 mile buckle. Not sure how it happened, but I mentioned I would love to catch a [...]
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The first (possibly annual) running of the informal trail gathering dubbed the Wilson Creek Frozen 50k (and 20M and 10M) can be considered a great success. No one got permanently lost, for most of the morning the really bad mud stayed at bay, only one person reported blood (with pride and a great description of [...]
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I did not quit PRE-RACE Thursday, September 23, 2010: John and I dropped the kids off at my parents’ house in Nampa and then picked up Sam. After loading all his gear, making a stop at Subway for an early lunch, and swinging by the church for an improptu prayer lined up by Tina for [...]
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JUNE 20, 2009: First Ultra Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible. –Shakespeare, Julius Caesar My first ultramarathon was everything I thought it WOULD be, but better, and none of the horrible things I thought it COULD be. I have struggled much over the last months with how to write this story [...]
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WEEK 8: FEB 19 – FEB 25, 8.1 miles 2/25/07, Sun: NO RUN. 2/24/07, Sat: .5 miles, paper route. 2/23/07, Fri: 3.3 miles, 35:26. Little slower than yesterday, but I still felt great. 2/22/07, Thur: 3.3 miles, 33:55. Today, even as I ran through the fog, I felt as if I emerged from a very [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...The following is an excerpt from a paper on ultrarunning that I wrote for an English class in the Fall 2007. I merely extracted paragraphs from throughout the paper, so if it doesn’t seem very coherent, that’s why. I include it in this blog because it gives some background on the mentality with which I [...]
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