Conditioning for Trail Runners: The Essentials
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by Sarah
2y ago
This post is a repost from my weekly newsletter, “Colorado Mountain Running & Living.” I hope you’ll read the full post on my new platform & subscribe for updates there! The wind is howling, which I would mind less if it brought storm clouds our way. Recently, it’s been delivering blasts of warmer air from the south. I’ve been checking the weather apps obsessively, clinging to hope that the forecast calls for a few inches of snow to blanket the dull brown patches on the landscape, now drained of color. Fresh white would make it feel like winter again. Our driveway, and some of my favor ..read more
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A Day Well Spent
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by Sarah
2y ago
I’m cross-posting this race report here and on my new platform, sarahrunning.substack.com, where I’ve been publishing posts each Wednesday. I hope you’ll check out the other site and subscribe for updates.  What makes running fun? Friends often say, “have fun” when you go to race, as I did last weekend. “Fun” is different than satisfying. Generally, running brings satisfaction—the feeling of the body heated, loosened and strengthened, mind cleared, mood elevated, sights observed over miles of terrain—but most runs I wouldn’t call fun, unless it’s the kind of “type 2” fun that comes in hin ..read more
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New Season, New Platform
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by Sarah
2y ago
Dear readers, This isn’t a race report or a story cooked up when I couldn’t sleep. Rather, it’s an announcement. I started a weekly newsletter on a different platform, and I hope you’ll follow me there! It’s called Colorado Mountain Running & Living, and it will deliver training tips and midlife musings every Wednesday, limited to 1000 words. Check out its About page for an overview, and please subscribe by visiting the site sarahrunning.substack.com. I’m offering two levels of subscription: free, for the weekly newsletter; and paid, for the newsletter + some bonus content and a monthly Z ..read more
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Telluride Mountain Run Report: Still Got It
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by Sarah
2y ago
The 40-mile Telluride Mountain Run loops around the town’s box canyon to capture one of the steepest, most scenic routes possible around Telluride. I’ve tackled the race in three different years (2016, 2018 and 2021), and each time, the race director has altered the course to make it more difficult. This year’s edition, held a week ago on August 28, ascended over 14,000 feet total at high altitude and added a bonus mile-plus, so it measured almost 42 miles. Moreover, the route changed its final climb in the last 10 miles to go up roughly twice as high as the final hill in prior years. This mak ..read more
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Race Report: Bears Ears 50, Highs in the Abajos
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by Sarah
2y ago
When I drove two-and-a-half hours west from home to Monticello, Utah, last Friday for the inaugural 50-mile Bears Ears Ultra, my mind was picturing the dramatic red-rock landscape around Canyonlands National Park and Bears Ears National Monument. The relatively small Abajo Mountain range, where the ultra course loops around, sits in between those special areas in eastern Utah. I thought we’d be racing through high-desert countryside, and I braced for high heat because temperatures had reached the 90s a week earlier. I was totally surprised, therefore, when I saw the Abajo Mountains rising as a ..read more
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Running the Rimrocker: My Own Ultra to Kick Off Summer
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by Sarah
3y ago
Shortly after 5 a.m. on Thursday, I ran westward down a road near the remote town of Nucla, fueled by excitement, nervousness and a little pride. No cars drove by, no lights shown in the smattering of ramshackle farm homes, no streetlights lit the way. Only the sound of sprinklers irrigating acres of hay fields gave a sign of life and filled my ears. A full moon and my headlamp lit the way. I carried a pack heavy with nearly a gallon of water, plus enough snacks and safety gear to get me through an all-day journey when I’d be out of cell range and alone for the first two-thirds of the way. Da ..read more
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Where I’m Going and Where I’ve Lately Found Joy
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by Sarah
3y ago
I’m getting ready to drive down to the Sedona-Flagstaff area to pace/crew my friend Soon-Chul Choi as he and 177 other participants travel by foot an unthinkable 250-ish miles as part of the inaugural Cocodona 250. I’m meeting him at the mile 181 aid station and accompanying him a little over 50 miles, if all goes according to plan. I doubt I’ll run much at all; by mile 181, runners likely will slog at a tortoise-pace hike through heat in the day and cold at night, stopping for naps along the way, but that suits me fine. My primary running gear now is slow-and-steady with a lot of hiking. I’m ..read more
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My Very Mixed Feelings About Running 100 Miles
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by Sarah
3y ago
When I crossed the finish line of the Coldwater Rumble 100-miler a week ago after 26 hours and 25 minutes, I felt emotionally flat-lined. I’ve cried at finish lines before, overcome by the feeling of triumph over adversity and the sheer drama of the human effort. And I’ve done a cartwheel over the finish line, so full of giddiness and joy that I wanted to show off with a final “ta-dah!” gesture. This time, however, I could barely muster a polite smile and “thank you” to the handful of volunteers standing around. To my stalwart pacer who’d accompanied me 40 miles through the night, I just kept ..read more
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Why I Raced in 2020
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by Sarah
3y ago
Ever since my last ultra in mid-November, I’ve intended to write a year-end recap that reflects on the unusual mix of virtual and real races I was fortunate to experience in this infamous year of 2020, and why I’m heading to Arizona in January for a 100-miler. But I couldn’t get motivated to write. My running seemed not totally irrelevant, and not entirely selfish, but occupying a smaller and more private part in my life. The specter of the pandemic held me back. The reality of some 2000 to 3000 people dying every day, the threat of our town being shut down again, my husband’s struggle to gene ..read more
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Joe Biden’s Lessons for Ultrarunners, Discovered Mid-Ultra
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by Sarah
3y ago
I was approaching Mile 37 of the Whiskey Basin Trail Run when I got the news last Saturday afternoon. I had been reluctant to turn on my phone during this 57-mile ultra through high desert and piñon-juniper woodlands on the Prescott Circle Trail around Prescott, Arizona. I knew my phone would blow up with notifications, and I feared the news would be bad. But I wanted to listen to music for the final 20 miles, for the boost and distraction that a playlist would provide, so I had to turn it on. I know, I could have silenced the notifications. But I wanted to peek for an update. I had been glued ..read more
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