Based on how my body feels right now, I feel like taking the rest of the week off from running. Nothing will hurt my training right now more than continuing to push my body when it’s fatigued. After I finished the Quicksilver 50K, my body started to feel “off;” more tired than usual. It was…
Tag: hiking
Hello Darkness, My New-ish Friend
A few weeks ago, when my friend Melody and I got together for a trail run, it was dark and we weren’t thoroughly prepared for it. Two weeks ago, we met up at a slightly earlier time and were better prepared for darkness. That is, after I dug my headlamp out of my drawer it still…
reaching new heights
Saturday, July 23rd marked 14 weeks until Javelina Jundred and while I’d like to say it’s still waaay too early to freak out, I can’t help but have some mild anxiety over it. 14 weeks seems so short, now that I think about it. I mean, it was this time last year (July 2015) when…
a day on mount wilson
Trekking up Mt. Wilson is something I’ve been wanting to do for a really long time. So when my friend Crystal forwarded me an invitation to go, I knew I had to. Now, I’ll say this, going into this hike (and it was a LOT of hiking), I was pretty nervous about it because I’ve always heard…
the day I met my tree
In May, I made it a goal to run 100 miles that month. I felt it was an attainable goal and in fact, I did achieve it. Yay me! I decided to make it the same goal for June. But as I was adding up my miles in my training log, I found more holes…
coming up with a game plan
Even without doing any running for the past month, life has been pretty busy. Time has been spent trying to keep sane from all the lack of running and figuring out what the hell happened this year. I’ve never had a running year quite like this one. Before when I didn’t run, it was because I chose not…
making lemonade from another sprained ankle
When I was told last Wednesday not to run for a couple of weeks I was a little disappointed. Not because I was told to rest, but because I kept thinking I was careless enough to put me in that position in the first place. I’ve been replaying that disappointing morning when I rolled my ankle….