While looking at the Tejas Trails events page to see what events might exist that would get me a supported trail run somewhere other than my normal haunts, I found this Texas Trail Festival. I feel like I'd heard the name, but it was all 'family friendly' and all day, and I didn't know what to make of any of that. BUT it turned out to have a ( Read more... )

Oh, geez. Where do I even start? By the time I finished day 2, I'd forgotten most of day 1. I considered making this into three separate race reports, but it really feels like one event, so one race report seems more appropriate. Hopefully I've forgotten so much that it won't end up being so long I can't post it on livejournal. Because I'm so good ( Read more... )

Though technically I'm counting down to the day we leave town, which means we have 8 days to go ( Read more... )

Weird. Four more weeks until race week. Sounds short, but the next two weeks will be our hardest, so we can't relax yet ( Read more... )

2 months to go. It feels like that's still so much time, but then it's also just 8 weeks, which feels like not much time at all. But those 8 weeks contains a lot of intimidating runs ( Read more... )

Now that we're back from Colorado (and so sad about going from dry and 30 degrees to warm with 98% humidity) and the legs are mostly recovered, it's time to choose what's next!

The answer is actually a little amusing, given our recent history.

In my CIM race report, somewhere after the halfway point where I fell apart a bit, I noted to Kate that ( Read more... )

Oops, it's been a while since there's been anything on my blog. I should really write even when I'm not actively racing. But hey, I've reentered the world of racing (well, "racing", anyway), so let's jump back in!

Matt and I are signed up for the Collegiate Peaks (CP) trail run again this year, mostly as an excuse to take the dogs up to Colorado ( Read more... )

Some time in 2014, I decided that 2015 would be the year I ran another marathon, and maybe tried again to qualify for Boston. I had vague memories that I suffered a lot the last time I ran a marathon ( New Orleans in 2012), but it's been several years, so the pain had faded to where it seemed logical to do another one.

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After my Off-season ruminations, part 1 post, sheilagh commented and asked what BQ and MGP stood for. So here's a not-so-brief history of me versus the Burger Queen.

BQ is Boston Qualifier, or the time that an individual needs to run in order to qualify to run the Boston Marathon. For many, many years, this was 3:40:59 or less for women under 35, 3:45:59 ( Read more... )

Short version: My first (unintended) DNF (Did Not Finish) that I can remember.

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