Races
Goodbye to post-run cramping. Stoked on #itsthenerve!
There’s a rule I live by which is, “I’ll try anything two or three times.” It usually applies to foods (and I love interesting foods), although I tried it with country dancing and totally struck out three times. Hey at least I gave it a shot. Well, I decided to pack a whole case of…
Read More43 Days: My Nemesis – Trail Running with Wet Feet!
I have discovered my nemisis . . . wet feet. Every since the wet and muddy adventure at Peacock 100k with mud and rain, not only have I had a mental aversion to wet feet, but my feet just aren’t handling water the same as they did on that day. It seems that after only…
Read More144 Days: The Circus Act of Tapering
Tapering the week of a race is quite the circus act for me. Two weeks before a race, I tend to push pretty hard knowing I can recover in a week. However, race week is still a guessing game for me. Do I run a little, not at all? Am I recovered enough? Dare I…
Read More155 Days: Too Many Electrolytes on Maunawili
I have a tendency to overdo it. My goal this year for the 22 mile Maunawili Out & Back was to finish the race with gas in the tank. I didn’t go out too fast like I did last year, refilled my water pack at the turnaround (like I didn’t to last year), and paced my…
Read More162 Days: My first encounter with fear of running was at Maunawili 2013
Two days from now is the Maunawili Out and Back “race”, also known as Run with the Pigs, that starts up at the Pali Lookout, goes down to Waimanalo, then back up. It’s 22 miles and can be run as a relay or individual run. I’ll be going solo on this one. They do a staggered…
Read More163 Days: Okay, this is going way too fast.
It hasn’t even been a week yet, and numbering these posts as a countdown to HURT is making time seem to go way to fast. I may have to pull those off eventually. Anyway, yesterday I finally put in my registration for Peacock 100k in October. There were only 30-something spots open and the registration…
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