My immediate reaction post-adventure was, I never want to enter the canyon again. The next day, feeling mostly normal and without enough soreness, I thought more that there is unfinished business in the canyon and started looking for flights back. And now, a few days afterward, I don’t feel the need to ever go back, but… Read more: R2R

We had run these trails a few times in our preparation for the race, and those runs were quite tough for me… I generally just had very heavy legs and thought the trails were way too technical to find a groove. But I went into the race with no expectations for how the trails would feel.… Read more: TARC Fall Classic 50k

Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. Wow, two races in a row that have inspired Tim Tollefsen vernacular to run through my brain. We raced the Loon Mountain Vertical Kilometer (VK) this past weekend. A VK race is usually straight up a mountain with an elevation… Read more: Loon Mountain Vertical Kilometer

Whew! What a finish to a whirlwind of a month in which I traveled every weekend and somehow also did Farmers Markets every Tuesday. I’m so privileged and grateful and amazed I get to do these random things. SO many people were involved in making this happen. When you get to these long or multifaceted events… Read more: Ironman 70.3 Happy Valley

The trails in Marin were the first trails I’d ever ran on. The Marin Ultra Challenge (MUC) 50 miler was the first trail race I did. It sounds silly and exaggerating, but this MUC 50k race felt like a homecoming, in a hilly trail-running way, at the same time intimidating and comforting. My training in the few months… Read more: Marin Ultra Challenge 50k

Volunteers at trail races are usually awesome, but I have to say that the TARC (Trail Animals Running Club) volunteers are really a step up. This was my first race with them, and I am so happy I found this small trail running community on the east coast! The nothing-fancy, local, volunteer-based nature of this race… Read more: TARC Stone Cat Trail Festival 50 Miler

An “aquabike” is a triathlon without the run. I was signed up for the Pilgrimman Half Triathlon. But when my shin started flaring up 10 days out from the race (right as I was beginning to taper… ugh), I realized I should seriously consider dropping the run. So aquabike it was! The distances were the same… Read more: Pilgrimman Half Aquabike

Accompanying video on my YouTube channel: Core Essentials. Core is essential to both activate (before training) and strengthen (separately). A strong and active core helps with injury prevention and efficiency of movement. The core core exercises:

This isn’t really a race report because I didn’t end up racing. But I think DNS (did not start) events deserve as much reflection as completed (and DNF (did not finish)) races do. The Healdsburg Running Company put on a phenomenal race. I was so impressed by their trail work, given the muddy, drowning mess the trails had… Read more: Lake Sonoma 50 Miler

I couldn’t find a table that had it all, so I made one myself. This is a synthesis of the training zone information I’ve gathered over the past few years of coaching myself for these endurance events. There is a lot of nuance not shown in the table. In college, I always wondered why we did the… Read more: Training Zones 101

It’s the morning after the inaugural Mammoth Trail Fest 50k (~33 miles with ~6,600 feet of elevation gain), and the sun has just risen above the eastern mountaintops outside our bedroom window, casting the morning glow only well-known to some on the western mountains opposite it. Mammoth Lakes, where this trail race takes place, is a tourism town… Read more: Mammoth Trail Fest 50k

The last 2 miles of the run, I thought to myself “I am never doing this again,” but last night when I couldn’t sleep due to the pain in my legs, I was already looking up races for next year… I raced an Ironman 70.3 (1.2 mile open water swim, 56 mile bike ride, 13.1 mile… Read more: Ironman 70.3 Santa Cruz

Thanks a million to the Marin Ultra Challenge for saying the 50k race was full when I went to sign up, which meant instead we entered the 50 miler… but, in all seriousness, thank you so much to the organizers and volunteers and of course to my fellow trail runners. I could not have asked for… Read more: Marin Ultra Challenge 50 Miler

Accompanying video on my YouTube channel: Knee Pain. Knee pain. It does not discriminate. I’m by no means an expert on knee pain, but I’ve accumulated some tips and tricks over the years that I’d love to share with you. These are assuming that, if you’re a biker, you’ve had your bike fit or at least tried… Read more: Preventing and Treating (most) Knee Pain

That was so fun. Thank you so much to all the volunteers and race staff for smoothly running such an amazing event. I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun racing before. Or been in so much pain for so long racing before. After all, a 2k (rowing race) in college was extremely painful but… Read more: Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon

This was an adventure. I remember six months ago when I was like “why would anyone do that,” and I remember a month and a half ago when I wasn’t sure I’d be able to physically do it, and that’s why I decided to try. So excited for more long events hopefully in the running world!… Read more: Road Bike Everest

So last night I decided that I hadn’t done enough elevation or distance that morning and I’d go for a dress rehearsal today (including trying caffeinated Tailwind as a source of energy). It was very foggy and I regretted my decision because my legs were tired from the 9.5k the day before but also didn’t regret… Read more: Road Bike Everest Basecamp

I keep putting off writing a real race report for a few reasons: I’m not sure what to share, and I’ve never written a “real” race report before. But here’s my attempt: First, many thanks to all the volunteers who manned the course. We could not have done what we did without you. Your smiles and… Read more: Ironman Canada

I rowed bow seat in the 1V for Head of the Charles and we won the entire event. We didn’t just win, we totally dominated. We passed the Dutch National Team as we were passing Riverside, and we beat second place BU by 11 seconds. I won a gold medal at Head of the Charles. It… Read more: Head of the Charles Regatta