Dream Big and Go For It
As a runner, you’ll fail lots, and you’ll fail publicly. That’s part of the point.
You will have crap races? Race anyway. You will get injured? Run anyway.
So go for it. Run with passion, race fearlessly, chase your craziest dreams without caring too much about how realistic they are. Do that, and yeah, you might fail.
And that’s pretty much the whole point.
Sheridan WY
2017 DNS. 2018 DNF. 3 times lucky?
January 5th. Alarm set. Registered before sell-out, third year in a row. BIGHORN!
Custer’s Last Stand (an hour away). 2019: my last stand. Know what to expect, getting it done.
Never soooo much MUD in my life, this year SNOW & water crossings. Heavy winter in the high country. Purchased Lekis (trekking poles). NO fear, ready to battle.
Friday flight to County Airport Sheridan. Easy afternoon of diner food, introspective walk downtown. WYO Country. Real deal here. No Deadwood shoot-out for tourists. Honest cowboy vibe.
Best Western bib pick-up. 32-mile tag retrieved.
New year, new distance. Start 3 hours later than the 50 (past two Bighorn attempts). Most miles logged EVER (life-to-date), last year’s DNF. [Didn’t quit, missed the time cut-off.]
No pre-race museum, no Nat’l Park drive. Serious face this year. Game on.
Early to bed, early to rise. 45-minute drive to Dayton. 6am school bus from Tongue River Valley Community Center. Head demons tamed. Unfinished business.
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- County Airport
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- Wyoming MOOSE
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- diner LUNCH 🍴
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- downtown Sheridan
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- Fruits of the Good Earth
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- Welcome BIGHORN
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- my year, my time
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- experience of a lifetime
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- historic SNOW ❄️
It’s not just for physical fitness, but for emotional and mental fitness, and really to be a part of something that is so much bigger than yourself ~ Deena Kastor, Olympian & American record holder
Global Running Day and ice cream? Heck yeah, sign me up! Runners Roost Ice Cream Social, first group run in weeks. New faces, new places. Good to get out & connect.
Google-mapped my route. Shorts, pair of Brooks, Jaybird tunes. 4 miles from our local Runners Roost. Why car-commute to Global ‘Running’ Day, right? 2 legs, will travel.
Harper Lake, Davidson Mesa Trail. Peeled off mile 5 & tagged a few new Louisville streets (on my way home). Every SINGLE Street – it’s a 2019 Louisville reality 😊
Happy Running! Dig this day, get out & move! ❤️
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- Welcome to Harper Lake
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- talk nutrition & eat ice cream
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- every Louisville street
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- Sis’ purple glow 💜
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- same Wednesday (good to have options, thanks Bro)
summer weather, season change
Deadwood SD
Deadwood Mickelson, Sunday last.
Not only finished a second 50 State trek – also, completed my marathon sesquicentennial. Finish #150. Never DREAMED that one-n-done run in Alaska, would spark a 5-year WORLD adventure.
Crazy, unexpected ride.
Remember watching runner Kerri Haskins on the evening news (first New Hampshire woman to run 50 marathons in 50 states). Met LIVE in Bristol race morn – told her: I can’t imagine running 100 marathons. Was never her intention either. Caught the 50 State bug, then years later – her home state, ran #100.
New Hampshire Marathon, October 2015.
We’re now only a handful of finishes apart. I’ll see Kerri at Bighorn, June 15th. I caught the bug too 😊
Behind the scenes the entire time, my PS Audio work family (in Boulder). Been there from the very first push-pin on my USA Wall Map. Celebrated 2016, my first 50 before 50 – and today, surprised me again. THREE cakes, one AMAZING card & a stack of Washingtons. Hundred fifty-one dollar bills. 150 marathon finishes & ONE to grown on. Loving, supportive & much appreciated – like ALL families.
DREAM on. Absolutely ANYTHING is possible ❤️
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- 50, 100, 150
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- my Sesquicentennial
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- stack of Washingtons
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- push-pin CELEBRATION
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- 850 to go? NO!
