Yesterday, 4/14/12, I ran in a local 5k race, called the Sequoia Stampede, at my local high school. Â It was fun! Â The start was really like a stampede. Â We lined up by the end goal line of the high school’s football field (the start line). Â It was a pretty small race, maybe 600 runners. Â There
Last Saturday (April 7th), I attempted to run my first ultramarathon, the American River 50 mile run. Â I was excited to do it; from Thursday at work, then leading up to the event on Saturday, I felt ready (but not overly confident), that my training was adequate to get me to the start line. Â Â Â However,
I have roughly two and a half weeks till race day! I’m getting excited yet scared.   This anticipation is killing me! As I continue with my training, I feel that I am getting stronger – at least my legs. (Warning: Narcissist moment)  I have not really felt or checked my legs, but when I just
Training for a 50 mile race is a tough one. I knew this even before signing up for AR50, but I did not realize that it is a huge commitment. There is the commitment to do the miles, eat the right kind of food, and maintain a certain weight (especially being a light weight, I
I signed up for AR50 back in Sept 2011, and since then I have been logging all other activities I’ve done as my training for AR50. I log my training via dailymile.com, it is easy with Garmin (although I recently lost my Garmin ANT thumb drive, so I’ve been manually uploading my training runs and
