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These are some of my favorite photos and moments of 2013. Enjoy! Happy New Year!! Women’s podium at UROC Cif Bar HQ Goofing around at the Clif Bar Athlete Summit Emigrant Pass Treadmill challenge at Footzone REP open house Snowshoe National Championships Kauai Wintry day at Mt. Bachelor Skiing near Devil’s Lake Too Cool for…

[NOTE- this is a long post. I’ll post another version of my 2013 reflections in PHOTOS for those who don’t want to read my ramblings] So I didn’t get to race TNF 50 last weekend. I was pretty bummed. BUT, I was happy to be letting my body heal! After UROC I had some lingering…

 Photo: Matt Trappe Wow. I am still in total unbelief that I was able to pull off this race! UROC was the race that almost didn’t happen for me. I’m sure glad that I changed my mind and toed the line. It was an incredibly hard sufferfest and I am SO, SO glad I raced!…

Yep, way overdue. BUT- still within the one month limit! I’ve had a lot of great things in my life lately so hopefully the late race report is forgiven 🙂 Sierre-Zinal Uff da! Pardon the Minnesotan slang, but that pretty much sums up my feelings after Sierre-Zinal. It ate me alive! I still had a…

Photo: Thomas Martens- Pure Light Images I was nervous for Speedgoat. Maybe it was the course profile. Or maybe it was the stories I’d heard from past racers. Sure I like to climb hills, but I’d never run a race with as many steep climbs as Speedgoat. Still, I was drawn to this race. Maybe it was…

Western States I had a last minute opportunity to pace Denise Bourassa at Western States this year. I was pretty excited to head down to Squaw and be around all the excitement again. It was a great weekend and Denise finished 8th! She impressed the heck out me with her perseverance and mental toughness. I…

“I’m Running!” I’m running! I had a grin on my face the whole way! This was the exact phrase I yelled at a couple of my friends volunteering at a local 5k two weeks ago. I was just so happy to finally be running again and couldn’t hide my excitement. I’m not sure those friends…

Photo: Glenn Tachiyama One again, I raced in the Gorge Waterfalls 50k put on by James Varner at Rainshadow Running. Again, he put on a fantastic event with a great race course and plenty of fun surrounding the race. If you haven’t done one of James’ races before I highly recommend it! Weather in the Gorge area…

This winter has been a time for me to recharge. After a bad start to the year I chose to take a step back and not take life so seriously. This resulted in me doing quite a few things out of the ordinary. Let me start with the most recent. Snowshoe National Championships Photo: Joe Viger…

Running in Bend in January It seems that every year around the holidays, or shortly after, I end up getting sick. This year was no exception. The only difference was that this year I was planning to race in January. Maybe that was bad planning. In any event, I got the flu shortly after the…