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Broken Femur, Broken Heart
WordPressThe other week I started writing about the feelings that came with my most recent stress fracture. As with any injury, my mind replayed all the reasons, all the decisions, everything that I could…
Eggs on Ice: My Experience with Egg Freezing
WordPressIn February of this past year, I had a moment of panic. I was 37, recently single, and facing down the realization that if I wanted kids, my window may be passing. I wrote an entire piece for Outside…
Running and Competing While in Eating Disorder Recovery
WordPressIn a journal entry from December 2018, I asked myself: “Can I be an athlete AND be in recovery from an eating disorder?” The rest of the page was blank. I didn’t have an answer. And not having the…
Reflections on a Year in Recovery
WordPressIt’s been a year since I was discharged from Opal Food and Body after entering intensive eating disorder treatment for my third and hopefully last time. A year since I hit publish on a blog where I…
Big’s Backyard Ultra: Just What I Needed
WordPressRunning Big’s Backyard Ultra was a gamble for me: it’s not exactly an easy race to return to as my first ultra in over a year since injury, undergoi
Where Do I Go From Here? The Ever-Evolving Relationship with Sport
WordPressSeptember is a month that brings up a lot of feelings for me. It’s the start of the championship season for obstacle racing, with Spartan Race World Championships kicking it off. It’s a month for me…
The 2018 Barkley Marathons: Confidence through Failure
WordPressMy training log entry the day before the 2018 Barkley Marathons read: “Once that cigarette is lit, I’m going to race my little brains out. Give it all my all, and give it hell.” I’ve never been one…
2017: A Year of Rediscovering Joy
WordPressI’ve talked a lot how I do a lot of my runs to a single song on repeat – past favorites include everything from Smashing Pumpkin’s “Tonight Tonight”
Rewriting the Script
WordPressSomeone once asked me what I thought was the one marker of a successful person: I answered with “the ability to pivot.” To adapt on the fly, to cast
I Fear My Own Return
WordPressFear. I’ve spent the better part of the past year advocating embracing fear – running towards fear, instead of running away from it. That (to butche
“When Will You Be Back?”
WordPressIt has been almost two months since I received the ok to cast the crutches to the curb.Two months since I re-entered the world of bipedalism after t
Recovery: On realizing you aren’t superhuman
WordPressIt’s been 6 weeks since that fateful run where lightning bolts shot down my leg. When the initial MRI was taken, and my sentence was given (12 weeks
Injury, Identity and the Athlete
WordPressYesterday, I decided to clean out the trunk of my car. It’s long overdue. As I surveyed the contents, I took notes (and yes, I realize this is disgusting): 9 pairs of trail shoes. 3 pairs of road…
Reflections: 2015 in Review
WordPressIs this the real life? I found myself asking that question several times throughout 2015. Ok, maybe on an (almost) daily basis. (And then it’d be fo
World’s Toughest Mudder 2015: Revolution
WordPressFor the fifth year, we came. We ran. We crawled. We swam. We jumped. We climbed. We laughed. We cried. We triumphed. Over these past five WTM’s, the
The Book of Ultra: The Georgia Death Race
WordPressObstacle racing has been fantastic. But last fall (fresh off of knee surgery), I was looking for something different. A new challenge, a new venture. Having made a brief foray into competitive…
On being broken, rehab and recovery
WordPressBefore I begin, let me preface that I am not a medical professional and hold no qualifications or certifications (even meaningless ones where you pa
Coming Home: World’s Toughest Mudder 2014
WordPressThere are times in life when things just feel right. When you know you are where you are supposed to be. And as soon as I pulled up to the site of W
Willingness to Suffer
WordPressThe typical interview question will go something like this: “So why do you think you are successful in obstacle racing?” Might as well look good doing it It’s a question that has given me pause, and…
Injured Reserve
WordPressI hate it when cliches are true: one moment, you feel like you are on top of the world, and the next – things coming crashing down. And you sit and