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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1st Annual Hills & Dales Neighborhood Marathon
I’m here in the kitchen counter working on my second cup of coffee. Ruby woke up at 5am with a “hungry tummy.” I’ll be feeding her more for dinner tonight… The kids have today off from school for Fiesta. And I’m hoping the third cup of coffee gives rise to some ideas about kid-occupying fun. I [...]
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Lake Sonoma 50: Liza 1 + Asthma 1= F11
I went into this race with a bit of trepidation. My bib # was 13. This was my surprise seat mate on the plane. The race has 10k of vertical gain and 1/2 mile hill that I trained on has just under 200… feet. (I though it was 1024 feet for a while, but then I realized I’d just been reading the altitude.) This was my first 50-miler [...]
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Up early and writing
I woke up at 2:45 this morning and decided to go ahead and get up and start the daily grind of shooing the cats away from our love seat. They’ve taken to using it as a scratching post. It was my grandmother’s couch and it’s well-used and loved at this point — and it’ll be what you sit on if you ever come to [...]
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