Tag: trailrunning
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Fastpacking 100km of Appalachia Mountains: TN & NC
Appalachia, or the Appalachian cultural region, stretches across the Eastern United States and popularized for the long-distance national trail system that follows mountain ranges from Maine to Georgia. A few months ago, Nikki and I, chose to fastpack a short section of Tennessee and North Carolina. Via fastpacking we chose to cover the distance self-supported…
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North Face Ultra at Bear Mountain
Embrace the sufferfest. April 30th, 2016 I set out to attempt my third ultra. What you DO is who you are, not what you THINK about. Want something bad enough? Grind and kick your own ass. Training Back in January I wrote about a pretty simple training plan from the Ultra Ladies 50k schedule. I…
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Naked Bavarian Marathon
It’s 5am and I have only slept about 4 hours. My nerves have officially reached a crazy level. There’s something about a “marathon” race that gets to me. I did my usual gear and food check, then hurried out the door by 5:40 in hopes of arriving at a decent time to meet up with…
nature or bust 