100 Mile Wilderness Challenge

The Challenge: Can I hike Maine’s Hundred Mile Wilderness in a weekend? The answer is YES and this September I became the first first female to start and record a sub 48 hour Hundred Mile Wilderness finish and First Female… Read More

Riverlands 100 – Maine’s and My first 100 mile trail race

The week before the race I had a very rare (for me) moment of “keeping up with neighbor” anxiety. It happened when I saw my friend Melissa’s facebook post that featured a picture of her car fully packed… Read More

Everything you wanted to know about my upcoming 100 trail race

Wait, what are you doing this weekend? In just four days I’ll be running the Riverlands 100 in Turner Maine, Saturday May 13-14th, 2017. It’s Maine’s first 100 mile trail race. No, I’ve never run a 100 miles before…. Read More

Training and racing Ironman Mont-Tremblant 2016

The value of training in adverse conditions My first ironman-distance triathlon was in September of 2014 in Hunter, NY and it included lots of elevation gain and frigid pouring rain. I knew the Mont-Tremblant bike course would be… Read More

Healing achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciitis

Too much of a good thing I had planned on finishing my 2013 six month ultra running and racing season with the Mount Desert Island Marathon on October 20. But then a couple late season opportunities came up… Read More

Outrunning the polar vortex

Learn to love the cold When I raced cross-country skiing in high school and college, -4F was the official low cut-off temp for competition. Because of this we spent many weekends standing around in our thin spandex suits freezing our… Read More

Four Yoga Poses For Runners

Read here about the four poses I do almost everyday to balance out my less-than-perfect running form.

Part 2: La Ruta Run, 2013 Race Report

La Ruta Run 100k & 52k Race Report, October 16, 2013 Race day morning started with a 4am minibus ride to a prerace breakfast of fruit and some particularly greasy gallo pinto. When we got to the start… Read More

Thirteen Tarahumara, a minibus and me

How I ended up in a minibus with thirteen Tarahumara Indians driving around San Jose, Costa Rica for five days On a rare rainy day this summer I was wrapping up an equally rare full morning of work… Read More

Day 2 with the Tarahumara in Costa Rica

We spent all day together – we sang, we danced, we ate and we bathed in holy water. We visited coffee plantations and a gorgeous permaculture farm. But the highlight of the day was Silvio’s fart on the… Read More