Tag: racing
All the articles with the tag "racing".
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Broken Femur, Broken Heart
WordPressThe 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…
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Eggs on Ice: My Experience with Egg Freezing
WordPressIn 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…
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Running and Competing While in Eating Disorder Recovery
WordPressIn 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…
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Reflections on a Year in Recovery
WordPressIt’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…
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Big’s Backyard Ultra: Just What I Needed
WordPressRunning 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, undergoi
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Where Do I Go From Here? The Ever-Evolving Relationship with Sport
WordPressSeptember 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…
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The 2018 Barkley Marathons: Confidence through Failure
WordPressMy 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…
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2017: A Year of Rediscovering Joy
WordPressI’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”
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Rewriting the Script
WordPressSomeone 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 cast
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I Fear My Own Return
WordPressFear. I’ve spent the better part of the past year advocating embracing fear – running towards fear, instead of running away from it. That (to butche
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“When Will You Be Back?”
WordPressIt 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 t
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Recovery: On realizing you aren’t superhuman
WordPressIt’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 weeks
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Injury, Identity and the Athlete
WordPressYesterday, 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…
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Reflections: 2015 in Review
WordPressIs 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 fo
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World’s Toughest Mudder 2015: Revolution
WordPressFor 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, the
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The Book of Ultra: The Georgia Death Race
WordPressObstacle 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…
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On being broken, rehab and recovery
WordPressBefore I begin, let me preface that I am not a medical professional and hold no qualifications or certifications (even meaningless ones where you pa
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Coming Home: World’s Toughest Mudder 2014
WordPressThere 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 W
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Willingness to Suffer
WordPressThe 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…
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Injured Reserve
WordPressI 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 and