the (mis)adventures of an ultrarunner
Why should you take advice from me? Crap. I don’t know, you probably shouldn’t. Regardless, I’m sitting home on my butt with no work to do, and Daniel is at the store. The result is a post about things I’m either learning to avoid or already learned to avoid being an ultra girl. I’m easily capable of offending pretty much anyone, so just close out this page if I piss you off! Easy enough, right? 😉
Continue reading “5 Things I Try to Avoid as an Ultra Chick”
See, I told you I had to tell you something cool about Badwater: http://www.ultrachicksunite.com/2012/03/chapter-1-badwater.html
But that’s not even all the cool stuff going on! I’ve also been invited to run and write about two other epic races!!!!! I’m running late to pick up Brooklyn, and I still gotta ride my brand spankin new bike today! 🙂 So I’ll dish on those later. But check out that article, and let me know what you think!
Just posted a new article about a woman that really inspired me by traveling the globe for a year having incredible adventures with her husband. If you know me well— well than you know me, and you’ll get why I found this woman so fascinating. Continue reading “New Post on UltraChicksUnite.com, and then some..”
I just need to write. Don’t expect any quality writing, grammar, humor, or depth from me today. This is just straight up raw emotion and thoughts.
I went out to run today. I couldn’t do it. My legs simply still do not work. I have no motivation, no ambition, no drive. No Ashley. Continue reading “I don’t know where I’m going with this..I just need to write.”
You know, I never thought it would be so bad.. a genuine suckfest! I pushed, pushed [PUSHED] and then REALLY pushed as hard as I possibly could for about two years. I got fast, I got strong, I won some races, I got injured, and then BAM….I got burnout. Real deal burnout. Continue reading “5 Personality Traits That Led to My Burnout”
I was so pumped to do this race.
Anyways… here’s the “recap”:
Continue reading “The 100 That Wasn’t & The Ashley That Isn’t”
So you guys always see me writing about my best friend Amber.. And now you get to read Amber’s take on life too! Continue reading “Amber is blogging!”
Check out a ultra chicks Q&A with Lisa Gonzales, a woman that went from 300 pounds to dedicated ultra runner! Her story will inspire you. 🙂 http://www.ultrachicksunite.com/2012/02/inspiring-females-lisa-gonzales.html?m=1
Cognitive Dissonance: the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes.
Double top: The fact I am facing is that this 100 is likely to destroy me. My defending logic is that a 100 is a cure all mental boost.
Hmm.
The straight up, un-sugarcoated honest truth… I’m in pretty bad shape. I’m not gonna go into details, bc frankly it’s none of yo biz..
Haha, wow. I forgot how hard a half is! Give me a 100 any day!!!!
So, I went into this race feeling tired, overtrained, and injured.
I knew I wasn’t going to have a peak performance; and I didn’t. But I had fun!
I found Beth M, another 100mile runner, at the start of the race.
Continue reading “Run the Reagan Half”
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