Year in Review: 2017

IMG_1580I know I have been delinquent in my posts but I’ve been, you know, trying to LIVE the life.  I like to do an annual look back at the past year.  Here are my posts from 2015 and 2016 if you want to go down memory lane.

But 2017, without further ado…
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How to Stop Being a Wannabe: Signing Up for My First Ultra

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The ultrarunning world has its own lingo, its own customs, its own podcasts, its own “major” races, its own stars, its own running clubs.  It also has its own website: ultrasignup.com.

For the past few months, I’ve secretly held an account on Ultrasignup, lurking in the background without actually having run or signed up for an ultra race on the site.  In other words, even though I’ve run a good bunch of trails, and even though I’ve fallen and gotten “best blood” on a run or two, and even though I took an official rite-of-passage full immersion dunk in the swimming hole with a crew of badass trail runners this past summer in Southwest Virginia, and even though I ran in Colorado in the dark and in the snow for the last few months of 2016, I am not an ultrarunner.   I’m a wannabe, a noob, an interloper, a poser.  But that’s going to change…

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