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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Prize purses and dopeyness
So there might be a 100 mile race next year with a $100,000 prize purse. Check out the details on iRunFar. Then get a cup of coffee and a doughnut and check out the comments. Fun stuff. One of the threads brings up the idea of doping with that kind of prize money on the table. Surely that’s a real possibility. But as someone [...]
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Cupcakes and skulls
I just spend a huge chunk of time tonight researching 100 mile races for a friend who wants to run his first hundred this year. Yup, I was entirely absorbed and happy this evening — except that now I have 15 more races on my bucket list. What are you all planning for 2012? Are you coming to Rocky? If you are, we have to hang [...]
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Flashcards and blog posts
I am quite the blogging slacker these lately. I’d tell you it’s because I’ve been busy baking dozens of Christmas cookies, but if you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you’ll know that I won’t manage to get my Christmas baking done until sometime late Christmas Eve. Conversation in our [...]
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“For the Ho-Ho-Honor of Grayskull!”
My friend Lauren assures me that “For the Ho-Ho-Honor of Grayskull!” is an actual line in movie. I have nothing to say. I am ordering my copy now.
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Volcanoes and Rain
Asa’s in the kitchen playing with baking soda and vinegar. It’s only 11am and the volcano was my big rainy day item, so I’m not sure how the rest of the day is going to play out. If only he wanted to follow the North Face 50 updates with me on Twitter… Eliot’s working hard all weekend, so the Boy and I are [...]
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