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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Done with fall and ready for winter
I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck a few times tonight. I’m chalking it up to the late September humidity. (This was 25 minutes into my run.) I ate five (ok, seven) popsicles to recover. It was fun, but I still feel two-dimensional. After 25 miles Friday, an hour on Saturday, 14 on Sunday, and 1:20 with some speed today, [...]
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Diagonale des Fous race report reading continued
Yesterday I started reading this fellow Jalmin’s race report about DdF last year. He’d just started running at an 8 minute pace after waiting forever at the race start. “I’m feeling good, there are a lot of people cheering along the road, big fireworks on the beach, it’s great.” I get to see Six Flags’ fireworks [...]
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More DdF race report reading
After annotating Joe Grant’s Diagonale des Fous race report yesterday, I figured we could go through a few of them together and see what we could learn. Here’s the next one that came up by a fellow named Jalmin. “When I decided to participate to “La diagonale des fous” back in august 2015, I had no idea where I was setting [...]
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Race report reading
I’ve started reading race reports to prepare for Diagonale des Fous. Here are bits from Joe Grant’s from 2012 and a few of my initial thoughts about this race. “Let me start from the beginning. 2,700 runners are lined up for the twentieth anniversary of La Diagonale des Fous(English: The Diagonal of Fools) on Reunion Island; [...]
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Working on my makeup
I know this isn’t good by movie-industry standards, but it definitely gets the students’ attention. It’s supposed to be a partial thickness burn. I’ve got to work on the blisters. The antibiotic ointment isn’t yellow enough. Maybe Vaseline. It’s just weird to travel with a big jar of Vaseline — [...]
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