Saturday,April 30th I headed down to the hills outside of San Jose,CA to lace up a new pair of Wildcats for the Quicksilver 50 Mile race at the Almaden Quicksilver County
After last year’s North Face Endurance Challenge,I had no intention of signing up for another ultra-marathon,but when two of your good friends are Brett Rivers and Larissa Polischuk,its harder than
“Tahoe training.. Tahoe training..” This was my mantra with each breath as I simply tried to zen-out. I was about 7 hours into the Jemez Mountains 50 Mile in Los Alamos, New Mexico and the course
Let me just say that, for me personally, 2010 has packed a life’s worth of emotional highs and lows into less than 6 months. . .and I haven’t even run Western States yet. After running
My full photo set from the 2010 AR50 can be found HERE The American River 50 Mile site can be
The Lake Sonoma 50 Mile. On Saturday, March 27 Larissa and I headed north of San Francisco for a relaxing trip up to the wine country. Relaxing of course being John Medinger’s Lake
The Avalon Benefit 50 Mile on Catalina Island, one of the nation’s oldest 50 milers, bills itself as “one of the country’s most challenging and scenic 50-milers. No cars, no smog,
It was finally here. The first race that I have run twice. I was excited about the 2009 North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile as it was finally a chance to see what my first full year of
Is it easier to run 50 miles the second time? Maybe. But it’s still hard to run 50 miles. On Saturday, December 5 I lined up with my boyfriend Greg at the start of the North Face Endurable
“I just have to laugh. For those of you who don’t know Ken, he’s an accomplished ultra marathoner. He’s done this before” says Dean Karnazes. I’m sitting at