Obstacle racing champion, ultrarunner, and writer. Essays on sport, suffering, and what comes next.https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-un-optimizing-my-life/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-un-optimizing-my-life/Is it bad to want to know less?Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:47:38 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-eggs-still-on-ice/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-eggs-still-on-ice/Am I really just delaying grief?Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:37:34 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-holes-in-the-ceiling/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-holes-in-the-ceiling/As the nurse brought in my breakfast at 7:30 a.m., I realized I hadn’t left my hospital bed in a week: I had officially taken up residence on a 36 xSun, 01 Mar 2026 21:27:12 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-are-athletes-obligated-to-speak-out-on-social-media/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-are-athletes-obligated-to-speak-out-on-social-media/It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m following New York Times updates regarding the horrific killing 1 of Alex Pretti by a group of ICE agents. Two weeks ago, we watched as videos came out showing the…Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:30:55 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-now/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-now/In flipping through an old notebook the other day, I found a chicken scratch across a page: I'm not sure when or why I wrote it, but like most serendipitous things in life, I rediscovered it at…Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:27:22 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-maybe-your-body-isnt-cut-out-for/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-maybe-your-body-isnt-cut-out-for/(and other lies I've believed)Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:17:20 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-not-the-worst-case-scenario/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-not-the-worst-case-scenario/I would have canceled the appointment but I have extreme guilt about canceling on doctors last minute. It had been feeling progressively better over the past 72 hours and I'm aware that my health…Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:19:09 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-highs-and-lows/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-highs-and-lows/(Hint: it's what it took to get here)Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:37:18 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-the-great-unsettling/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-the-great-unsettling/“What do you want?” my boyfriend asked me the other day. “Uhhh for dinner?” I responded, not quite sure what to make of the question so naturally I went for the low-hanging fruit (which is not…Sun, 18 May 2025 20:17:15 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-i-said-id-be-done-with-this-by-40/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-i-said-id-be-done-with-this-by-40/I sat cross-legged in the corner of the large sectional couch, eyes darting around to the six other women who sat in a circle in the living room with me. "I mean, that's why I'm here before I go to…"Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:37:46 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-temporary/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-temporary/For better or worse, the past decade plus of my life has been measure in racing seasons. 2024 was the first year since I ran my first race in 2011 that I haven’t gotten to a start line, let alone a…Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:37:35 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-i-wish-this-was-a-stress-fracture/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-i-wish-this-was-a-stress-fracture/“I can’t believe I’m saying this,” I admitted to my physical therapist the other day, “but I wish this was a stress fracture. I’d give anything for this to be a stress fracture. Give me crutches, a…Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:09:59 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-its-a-pause-not-a-goodbye/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-its-a-pause-not-a-goodbye/I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how multiple things can be true at once: how many things are actually “ands” instead of “buts”. I can want to fight like hell to keep getting to start lines, and…Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:07:46 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-past-my-prime/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-past-my-prime/“We won’t need to file Schedule C anymore after this year,” I told my accountant this winter, “I’m no longer getting any sponsor money.” “Oh, Amelia - I’m sorry!” she replied, with that mildly…Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:47:38 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-mirrors/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-mirrors/I walked into a completely empty apartment in Golden, Colorado. Empty, except for a full-length freestanding mirror propped up in the master bedroom closet. I've avoided mirrors most of my life.…Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:47:13 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-recovery-has-no-endpoint/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-recovery-has-no-endpoint/In June 2000, six months after being discharged from the pediatric ward at Emanuel Hospital, my treatment team officially declared me recovered, complete with a paper certificate (I kid you not). At…Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:47:17 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-finding-myself-again/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-finding-myself-again/This past week, I was bopping along on a weekday run down my familiar dirt path, jamming out to the best of Sunny Day Real Estate (hello teenage emo years!) and a realization suddenly dawned on me:…Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:47:26 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-maybe/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-maybe/I fought back tears and growing panic as I said to my therapist, “ok so I know it’s a super low risk but my fear is that I will be one of those few people who gets that rare side effect and it will…Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:47:25 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-childless-or-child-free/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-childless-or-child-free/The other day, my dental hygienist made small talk as she cleaned my teeth: “so, do you have any kids?” “Nope,” I sputtered through a mouthful of dental instruments, and quickly changed the subject…Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:17:27 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-if-it-warms-up-it-cant-be-a-stress/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-if-it-warms-up-it-cant-be-a-stress/And other things I've found to be all wrong about bone injuriesSun, 12 Nov 2023 22:07:32 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-this-is-the-hard-part/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-this-is-the-hard-part/A week after my stress fracture diagnosis, I crutched around Leadville 100, putting on a brave face (ok, failing but trying). Many wonderful people came up to me and said something along the lines of…Sun, 15 Oct 2023 21:17:09 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-so-this-is-40/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-so-this-is-40/My dad's 40th birthday is emblazoned into my brain: the black decorations, the cake napkins that read "over the hill," the tombstone cake topper, the constant jokes that he was officially old. To an…Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:07:04 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-please-believe-me/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/substack-please-believe-me/An hour after I arrived at the residential treatment facility in Carlsbad, I asked a staff member where the restroom was. “I have to go with you,” she said. As I started to enter the daisy yellow…Sun, 17 Sep 2023 23:17:26 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/brokenfemurbrokenheart/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/brokenfemurbrokenheart/The other week I started writing about the feelings that came with my most recent stress fracture. As with any injury, my mind replayed all the reasons, all the decisions, everything that I could…Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/eggfreezing/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/eggfreezing/In February of this past year, I had a moment of panic. I was 37, recently single, and facing down the realization that if I wanted kids, my window may be passing. I wrote an entire piece for Outside…Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/runningineatingdisorderrecovery/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/runningineatingdisorderrecovery/In a journal entry from December 2018, I asked myself: “Can I be an athlete AND be in recovery from an eating disorder?” The rest of the page was blank. I didn’t have an answer. And not having the…Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/reflections-on-a-year-in-recovery/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/reflections-on-a-year-in-recovery/It’s been a year since I was discharged from Opal Food and Body after entering intensive eating disorder treatment for my third and hopefully last time. A year since I hit publish on a blog where I…Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/eatingdisordersandpandemics/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/eatingdisordersandpandemics/As I chatted with a friend on FaceTime the other week, I made the joke: “I dunno…maybe the silver lining of this pandemic is it will cure me of my eThu, 26 Mar 2020 20:30:37 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/thestateofthings/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/thestateofthings/When I was 6 years old, if I couldn’t get to sleep by 7:30pm, I would start crying hysterically. I was convinced I was going to die if I couldn’t faFri, 13 Mar 2020 13:25:39 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2019yearofrebirth/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2019yearofrebirth/On paper, 2019 probably looks like a rough year for me. Fractured calcaneus two weeks before the Barkley Marathons (making that four stress fractureTue, 31 Dec 2019 14:46:01 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/bigsbackyardultra/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/bigsbackyardultra/Running Big’s Backyard Ultra was a gamble for me: it’s not exactly an easy race to return to as my first ultra in over a year since injury, undergoiMon, 28 Oct 2019 22:33:45 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/letstalkaboutfeelings/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/letstalkaboutfeelings/I was a colicky baby. A temperamental child. I was prone to tantrums, and expressed myself violently through a wide range of emotions. I felt, and IWed, 09 Oct 2019 22:37:47 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/relationshipwithsport/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/relationshipwithsport/September is a month that brings up a lot of feelings for me. It’s the start of the championship season for obstacle racing, with Spartan Race World Championships kicking it off.  It’s a month for me…Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/bodiesandresponsibility/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/bodiesandresponsibility/(Content warning: This post contains my thoughts and feelings around my body and pictures of me. There are no numbers, behaviors, or weights.) In eaMon, 12 Aug 2019 15:02:03 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/therecoveryineeded/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/therecoveryineeded/In March, after sustaining my fourth stress fracture in the past three years, I wrote that it was time to take a step back and re-evaluate – to stopMon, 08 Jul 2019 15:26:56 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/dont-fight-the-water/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/dont-fight-the-water/When I first started swimming, I couldn’t understand why it was so hard. I knew there were probably a million reasons for it (my last swimming lessoTue, 19 Mar 2019 00:09:10 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2018-the-year-of-letting-go/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2018-the-year-of-letting-go/Several months ago, I had a long conversation with one of my best friends from law school. “Amelia,” she said, “You are really good at holding on toMon, 31 Dec 2018 09:00:47 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/barkley2018/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/barkley2018/My training log entry the day before the 2018 Barkley Marathons read: “Once that cigarette is lit, I’m going to race my little brains out. Give it all my all, and give it hell.” I’ve never been one…Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/year-return-running-logs/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/year-return-running-logs/Several months ago, I promised that I would share my return to running logs for those interested, not thinking that anyone would actually want to seWed, 31 Jan 2018 17:25:40 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2017-year-rediscovering-joy/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2017-year-rediscovering-joy/I’ve talked a lot how I do a lot of my runs to a single song on repeat – past favorites include everything from Smashing Pumpkin’s “Tonight Tonight”Mon, 01 Jan 2018 19:38:14 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/rewritingthescript/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/rewritingthescript/Someone once asked me what I thought was the one marker of a successful person: I answered with “the ability to pivot.” To adapt on the fly, to castTue, 07 Nov 2017 16:49:14 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-injury-commandments/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-injury-commandments/While it’s not something I’m exactly proud of, if there’s one thing I’ve become well-versed in this past year and a half, it’s been dealing with injThu, 17 Aug 2017 16:34:05 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/race-happy/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/race-happy/I feared my return to racing, and I faced that fear. I feared not being the athlete that I once was, and I’ve wrestled with my struggle to live up tTue, 20 Jun 2017 16:05:09 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/i-fear-my-own-return/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/i-fear-my-own-return/Fear. I’ve spent the better part of the past year advocating embracing fear – running towards fear, instead of running away from it. That (to butcheWed, 19 Apr 2017 16:51:16 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2016-a-year-of-healing/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2016-a-year-of-healing/On April 26th of this year, a few days after the whole “broken femur” thing started, I picked up a copy of Cheryl Strayed’s book “Brave Enough.” I fWed, 28 Dec 2016 15:45:42 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/when-will-you-be-back/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/when-will-you-be-back/It has been almost two months since I received the ok to cast the crutches to the curb.Two months since I re-entered the world of bipedalism after tFri, 23 Sep 2016 17:25:31 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/finding-joy-in-the-dns/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/finding-joy-in-the-dns/For anyone who has ever signed up for a race via Ultra Signup, you are probably familiar with the most dreaded of features – a listing that displaysTue, 05 Jul 2016 16:58:40 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/superhuman/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/superhuman/It’s been 6 weeks since that fateful run where lightning bolts shot down my leg. When the initial MRI was taken, and my sentence was given (12 weeksThu, 02 Jun 2016 23:23:14 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/identity-injury-and-the-athlete/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/identity-injury-and-the-athlete/Yesterday, I decided to clean out the trunk of my car. It’s long overdue. As I surveyed the contents, I took notes (and yes, I realize this is disgusting): 9 pairs of trail shoes. 3 pairs of road…Tue, 10 May 2016 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/injury-when-it-all-comes-crashing-down/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/injury-when-it-all-comes-crashing-down/There are times in life when you feel like everything is FINALLY coming together, like life is finally making sense. And you are happy. Really, trulWed, 27 Apr 2016 19:15:34 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/sean-obrien-100k-and-the-golden-ticket/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/sean-obrien-100k-and-the-golden-ticket/In November, I made a really bonehead move. After securing a Western States lottery ball with my Georgia Death Race (and first ultra) finish last spTue, 09 Feb 2016 19:46:05 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/reflections-2015-in-review/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/reflections-2015-in-review/Is this the real life? I found myself asking that question several times throughout 2015. Ok, maybe on an (almost) daily basis. (And then it’d be foThu, 31 Dec 2015 15:09:18 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/worlds-toughest-mudder-2015-revolution/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/worlds-toughest-mudder-2015-revolution/For the fifth year, we came. We ran. We crawled. We swam. We jumped. We climbed. We laughed. We cried. We triumphed. Over these past five WTM’s, theMon, 23 Nov 2015 19:50:44 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-book-of-ultra-the-georgia-death-race/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-book-of-ultra-the-georgia-death-race/Obstacle racing has been fantastic. But last fall (fresh off of knee surgery), I was looking for something different. A new challenge, a new venture. Having made a brief foray into competitive…Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/on-being-broken-rehab-and-recovery/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/on-being-broken-rehab-and-recovery/Before I begin, let me preface that I am not a medical professional and hold no qualifications or certifications (even meaningless ones where you paMon, 22 Dec 2014 20:21:28 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/coming-home-worlds-toughest-mudder-2014/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/coming-home-worlds-toughest-mudder-2014/There are times in life when things just feel right. When you know you are where you are supposed to be. And as soon as I pulled up to the site of WMon, 24 Nov 2014 20:18:31 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/willingness-to-suffer/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/willingness-to-suffer/The typical interview question will go something like this: “So why do you think you are successful in obstacle racing?” Might as well look good doing it It’s a question that has given me pause, and…Mon, 05 May 2014 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-way-back/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-way-back/It’s been a hibernation kind of winter here in Chicago. And for most of it, I’ve buried my head in the sand. Thrown myself into work (lawyering likeSat, 15 Feb 2014 20:15:36 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/injured-reserve/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/injured-reserve/I hate it when cliches are true: one moment, you feel like you are on top of the world, and the next – things coming crashing down. And you sit andFri, 08 Nov 2013 20:13:07 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/one-year-later-spartan-race-championships/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/one-year-later-spartan-race-championships/If there is one thing I learned from the Reebok Spartan Race World Championships this past weekend, it’s that you can EASILY get rope burn through cWed, 25 Sep 2013 20:08:25 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-push-for-legitimacy/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-push-for-legitimacy/At my grandma’s 90th birthday party following the Pacific Northwest Spartan Sprint, I found myself in a conversation with a family friend, who I hadFri, 06 Sep 2013 20:06:40 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/death-race-truths/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/death-race-truths/*for me. (like I would proclaim universal truths. pshaw) (1) The Death Race isn’t fair Andy and Joe should really keep a running tally of the number of times racers complain “but this isn’t FAIR.”…Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2013-summer-death-race-by-the-numbers/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/2013-summer-death-race-by-the-numbers/Participants registered: 390 Participants that started the race: 206 Finishers: 41 Finishers that received all 8 chips as of 6am Monday morning (“fiWed, 26 Jun 2013 20:05:34 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/worlds-toughest-mudder-2013-and-it-wont-change-a-thing/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/worlds-toughest-mudder-2013-and-it-wont-change-a-thing/World’s Toughest Mudder registration went live two weeks ago, and judging from the Facebook and social media reaction, you would have thought TMHQ hTue, 04 Jun 2013 20:03:32 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-trouble-with-chicking/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-trouble-with-chicking/As I passed a group of guys at the sandbag carry during the Indiana Spartan Sprint this past weekend, I heard “Are you kidding? She’s passing us. AThu, 02 May 2013 20:01:21 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/meels-on-wheels/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/meels-on-wheels/During P.E. class in fifth grade, we timed our 100m dash in the parking lot of good ol’ Palisades School. I finished last in my class of 30. Dead laThu, 18 Apr 2013 19:59:44 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/walking-a-tightrope/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/walking-a-tightrope/A conversation that happened with a couple in my apartment building the other day: Man: “Excuse me, but I have to ask, are you a trainer? My wife anWed, 03 Apr 2013 03:17:13 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-first-dnf/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-first-dnf/Two years ago, the letters “DNF” meant nothing to me. Nor did the letters “DNS.” Despite running some road races, I’d never really heard the terms thrown around. I’d never known the stigma attached…Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/coming-back-as-a-veteran/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/coming-back-as-a-veteran/The racing season hasn’t exactly started off with a bang. After missing the Spartan SoCal due to weather and air traffic control (thanks Philly!), IWed, 30 Jan 2013 03:14:47 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/a-racing-year-in-review-the-tippity-top/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/a-racing-year-in-review-the-tippity-top/So the world didn’t end today, though judging by the looks of the weather outside here in Chicago, it may still choose to do so. I guess that meansFri, 21 Dec 2012 03:13:51 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/wtm-commandments-revisited-one-year-later/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/wtm-commandments-revisited-one-year-later/You all can blame WTM 2011 for me entering into the blogosphere. It’s because of that race that you feel obliged to read my unimportant and trivialWed, 21 Nov 2012 03:12:38 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/day-after-worlds-toughest-mudder-hangover/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/day-after-worlds-toughest-mudder-hangover/No, not like booze hangover. I wish. Back to work, back to the grind, and thanking the higher powers I’m a desk jockey. Sitting is the only thing thMon, 19 Nov 2012 03:10:08 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-gearwhore-edition-cold-weather-racing/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-gearwhore-edition-cold-weather-racing/It’s that time of year again. The time when I dig out my boxed up hats, gloves, snow boots, and full-length down coat. The time when I mournfully puFri, 02 Nov 2012 03:09:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/how-worlds-toughest-mudder-ruined-my-life/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/how-worlds-toughest-mudder-ruined-my-life/The second ever World’s Toughest Mudder is rapidly approaching on November 17th. It’s not technically a perfect one-year anniversary, since TMHQ moved the race up a month this year, but on that day,…Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:00:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-trouble-with-rr/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-trouble-with-rr/It’s “Active Recovery Week” here at my Crossfit box, and I am irrationally angry about it. All I want to do is throw heavy shit around. I wake up crTue, 16 Oct 2012 03:07:24 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/spartan-ultrabeast-the-happiest-place-on-earth/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/spartan-ultrabeast-the-happiest-place-on-earth/The winners have been declared, the legs have become mobil-ish again, and the bruises and scrapes have begun to heal. And all I can think is “Woo, lFri, 28 Sep 2012 03:00:53 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/ultrabeast-eve-eve-non-sequiturs/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/ultrabeast-eve-eve-non-sequiturs/As I sit in an Epsom salt bath, the random musings of a brain on overdrive: Grape Pedialyte is the bomb. Ironic that this is my first “real” SpartanThu, 20 Sep 2012 03:00:12 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/how-far-weve-come/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/how-far-weve-come/I’m not big on anniversaries. They always seem to forced, so artificial, to me. Then again, I’m also a sentimental person. I enjoy milestones. I enjWed, 05 Sep 2012 02:59:29 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/dr-recovery-at-sea/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/dr-recovery-at-sea/A funny thing happened over the past few weeks. I’ve had post after post started concerning the Death Race, yet I couldn’t finish any of them. ThereTue, 03 Jul 2012 02:57:58 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/dr-2012-cheaters-and-brats-never-prosper/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/dr-2012-cheaters-and-brats-never-prosper/As we began the 6hr drive back to Philly from Vermont, I broke out my legal pad and a pen and began to list all the tasks we completed in the 2012 DThu, 21 Jun 2012 02:56:24 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/death-race-by-the-numbers/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/death-race-by-the-numbers/Total time to finish: 60 hours, 23 minutes Place: 2nd female Total approximate distance covered: 50-70 miles (depending on who you talk to) Clif barWed, 20 Jun 2012 02:55:41 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-betrayal-has-begun/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-betrayal-has-begun/When I signed up for the Death Race back in December, I remember talking to a previous Death Race finisher and asking about the race. “What is it?”Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:52:12 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/crossfit-obstacles-combine-love/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/crossfit-obstacles-combine-love/When you take three of my current obsessions (Crossfit, obstacles, and hills) and roll them up into one race, I may start foaming at the mouth out oFri, 25 May 2012 02:51:00 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/s-e-r-e-urban-chicago-is-a-dangerous-place/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/s-e-r-e-urban-chicago-is-a-dangerous-place/I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out practical uses for my shiny new KA-Bar,* spoils of being crowned “Top Team” at S.E.R.E. Chicago thTue, 15 May 2012 02:48:13 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/used-and-abused-the-essentials/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/used-and-abused-the-essentials/My body hates me. There isn’t a day where I’m not nursing some type of sore muscle, blister, injury, or rash of some sort (yum). If you know me, youMon, 16 Apr 2012 02:46:02 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/everyday-im-shufflin/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/everyday-im-shufflin/I posed the question this past weekend: “Which is harder to describe, the Death Race or a GoRuck Challenge?” Obviously, to the average person, bothWed, 21 Mar 2012 02:43:59 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/winter-death-race-faqs/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/winter-death-race-faqs/Post-Winter Death Race, I’ve received tons of questions about the race, my experience, and life in general. I do not claim any special DR knowledge–Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:43:10 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/32-hours-and-21-minutes/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/32-hours-and-21-minutes/A stump almost broke me. I was finished chopping my wood and stacking it, except for this bastard of a stump about 3 feet in diameter, knotted to heTue, 06 Mar 2012 21:43:23 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/these-races-should-be-everything-i-hate/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/these-races-should-be-everything-i-hate/T-minus one week til Winter Death Race. And I feel like I’m missing something. It’s this weird nagging feeling, that something isn’t exactly right.Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:41:08 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/adventures-in-urban-training-wood-chopping/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/adventures-in-urban-training-wood-chopping/The Winter Death Race is three weeks away. I have never swung an axe. Now would be about the time to panic, no? There is one thing, and only one thiThu, 09 Feb 2012 21:39:59 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/cashews-leadership-and-lessons-learned/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/cashews-leadership-and-lessons-learned/[Fair warning: this post may be full of typos and grammatical errors. I’m tired. I’m freakin’ tired. 15+ hour work days, pre- and post-S.E.R.E., havWed, 01 Feb 2012 21:37:58 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/mission-unknown/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/mission-unknown/If you looked up the definition of “creature of habit,” I would be highly surprised if there wasn’t a picture of me sitting there. My alarm goes offFri, 20 Jan 2012 21:36:40 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/volenti-non-fit-injuria/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/volenti-non-fit-injuria/To the consenting [willing], no injury is done. In the law, the Latin maxim of “volenti non fit injuria” is typically used as a defense in a tort acFri, 13 Jan 2012 21:33:58 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/on-girl-crushes-and-the-interwebs/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/on-girl-crushes-and-the-interwebs/A tangential conversation that took place between my girlfriend and I a few weeks before WTM: GF: “So how are you getting out there?” Me: “We’re driSun, 08 Jan 2012 21:33:27 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/adventures-in-urban-training-hills/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/adventures-in-urban-training-hills/I live in the middle of a concrete jungle. Picture downtown Chicago, and insert me right there. I live on the 15th floor of a 24-story condo buildinMon, 02 Jan 2012 21:30:20 GMThttps://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-ten-commandments-of-worlds-toughest-mudder-part-i/https://amelia-boone-archive.netlify.app/posts/the-ten-commandments-of-worlds-toughest-mudder-part-i/(1) Thou shall respect the power of neoprene All stripping down was done separately While there were many different types of crazy at WTM, it quickly became apparent that many people underestimated…Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT