I’m starting to think about MdS as a restful vacation with a bit running thrown in. I’m not underestimating the desert...
Liza Howard
Liza Howard is a long-time is a longtime ultrarunner who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She teaches for NOLS Wilderness Medicine, coaches, directs the non-profit Band of Runners, and drives her kids around in a minivan.
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Slow news day
There’s not much news to report here today. I’m plugging away on a To Do list of Doom. (If I owe you an e-mail response, e-mailing is scheduled from 9pm on tonight.) I have given up house cleaning again so I can train hard for this Desert Solstice run in December. (Nice excuse for thick dust and dirty bathrooms, eh?) (I’ve [...]
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Travellers and Dynasties
Have you seen this show “Duck Dynasty” on A&E? Eliot only let me watch two episodes last night. He’s good at that kind of moderation. I would have been up all night otherwise. “Frog hunting is a three man job. The catcher and the motor man have to have some skills. The ice chest man can be any human being.” [...]
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En route to Arkansas Traveller to pace and another glacier picture
Approaching Mt. Shuksan by the Sulphide Glacier. Amanda and Lalo are coming to pick me up at 430 tomorrow morning to catch our flight to Arkansas. Don’t tell them, but I’m not packed yet. I also just realized that I lent out both my hydration packs. The good UltrAspire ones. I do have a third one (because all addicts do), [...]
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Catching up and Arkansas Pacing
Hey there! I’ve been wallowing around in trail running camp tasks. Advertising, writing briefs, letters, orders and the like. We’ve got some great folks coming to help now. Marshall Ulrich, Mike Morton, David Riddle, Matt Hart, Pam Smith, Megan Kimmel, Dave James, Dominic Grossman, Katie DeSplinter, Zach Bitter, Jason Bryant, [...]
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