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
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
Posted on November 20, 2013 by charlotte
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
Posted on November 4, 2013 by charlotte
La Ruta Run!
In a little less than two weeks I’m headed to Costa Rica to run La Ruta Run. The details are still a little fuzzy to me, but here’s what I know so far. We start in Jaco, a… Read More
Posted on November 4, 2013 by charlotte
Six things I learned during my first year of training for ultramarathons
I had a solid four years of barefoot running behind me But I hadn’t run further than 8-miles since before my girls were born. I had heard about the Western States 100 when I thru-hiked the Pacific Crest… Read More