Touch All the Lakes FKT

I went for an FKT this weekend, the Ancient Lakes Touch all the Lakes challenge. There are 20 named lakes in the Quincy Wildlife area, and the challenge is to physically touch them all as fast as possible. I tried the route with a friend the week before, but we missed a lake (my fault),

Treadmill 100K

In honor of the first day of spring, I thought I’d share a post of a winter ultra challenge I did. I decided to go for a new kind of challenge this past December: a treadmill distance challenge. I’ve always struggled with the mental aspect of treadmill runs so I thought it would be a

Spray Park/Northern Loop FKT (!!!!)

To say I’ve been unmotivated since the Iron Cap incident would be an understatement. I thought for a while it might take years to work back up to an adventure run, especially solo. I did buy an emergency bivvy that now lives in my running pack as well as a bug net for my head

An unexpected night in the forest

Since summer has picked up here I’ve upped my training quite a bit in preparation for Wonderland Attempt 2.0. If you have been following my blog, you might remember my spectacular Wonderland DNF in 2020 due to a cougar encounter. Anyway, I completed (and CRUSHED), the volcanic Loowit Trail with a friend on the Fourth

Run your age!

My birthday was in the beginning of March, and while I’ve been low on blogging I’ve been high on adventures. I did something I’d never done before and took the day off work to run my age. What should have been 28 miles turned into 30 as I’m not good at maps. I have tried

When you can’t run, paint

Or do something you might not love but at least tolerate. I am awful at resting. I’ll be the first to admit I have a running addiction, but it becomes a serious problem when an injury comes along and I refuse to let my body heal. I had a bad ankle sprain in October, so

Finished last

I love long distances. If I’m going to sign up for a race, I want to get my money’s worth, and that translates in my brain to committing to the longest distance available in the event. When I first started running, I fell in love with the half marathon. It was a distance that was

Climbing Volcán Misti

I lived in Peru from 2015-2018, which is where I took up running more seriously. Before I was a runner, though, I was a hiker. Every time I saw a peak I wanted to see what the world looked like from its summit, and when I arrived in Arequipa the plane flew over Volcán Misti,

on hypothermia and learning from mistakes

I started getting much more adventurous with my trail running in spring and summer 2020. I like creating loop courses so much that I’ve gotten myself into trouble multiple times by underestimating the distance or elevation gain of a particular route. In late May, I decided to go out for a double (running in the

Up the ladder, down the ladder

It’s officially winter in the Pacific Northwest. Many of my favorite trails are covered in several feet of snow, and the closest local trail system closes from December through April to allow for mule deer migration. I have historically always hated winter. I don’t like driving in it, I don’t like running in it, and