Halloween Costume

So now that I have reclaimed my life, what on earth am I going to be?

My Trail Trouble partner is looking to do Blades of Glory. I'm going to a superheroes and villians party. I always want to be She-Ra.

Back story- a few years ago, I had a She-ra dress custom made for me. Basically all of my childhood dreams came true, and my life has not been the same since. It's really hard to find anything that I like as much as She-ra.


Rainbow Brite? Punky Brewster? A psycho ultramarathoner?

Reclaiming my life...

So I have been training for a race or a hike or an adventure basically non-stop since March...and I have to say the process of training, the long runs to Shek O, the hours of hilltop hiking have all been transformative. It has been wonderful to set goals and work towards them.

But I finally hit my wall. I have one last big race before the end of the year- Trailwalker. It's 100 kilometers over the largest hills in Hong Kong. It's going to be hell and I have no idea why I agreed to do it.

We have a night hike scheduled for Saturday night. Saturday night is Halloween. Finally I put my foot down. This girl has got to go out. I need to dress up, dance, and DFMO.

Costume ideas anyone? Shake the glitter...

More Trail Trouble...

Yup that's us at the finish...just so you have some proof that we actually did it...

Oh yeah

And there are prizes!!!!!

But in a sad twist of fate, in the safest place on earth, they were stolen...

:(

Trail Trouble

So it's been an intense couple of weeks with long runs and hikes and cross training, but we finally went to Singapore for our crazy race this weekend.

I just want to begin by reminding myself why we decided to do this race:
1) Shorter distance than the Gobi
2) Trail Race
3) Singapore is flat
4) By October it will be fall and cool


So those first two were true, but the second two were not.

I am pretty sure the race organizers found all of the hills in Singapore and included them in this race. I am also thinking they talked to the big guy upstairs and asked him to turn the heat up a notch just to make sure no one thought this was going to be easy.

And easy it was not. It was hard as hell.

We started with a gear check at 6am. I had an early morning contact lens disaster but fortunately I brought an extra set. The gun was off at 7am and we were on our way.

It was a long and hot course, but in my typical fashion I met a bunch of people along the trail including:

1) A pediatric oncologist
2) A real estate agent
3) A Sri Lankan civil service member
4) A banker (ALWAYS)
5) A ship broker

If you ever need any of these professions in Singapore let me know. I've tried to block out much of the course but there were all sorts of animals including monkeys lining the path to cheer/steal food from us.

The last ten kilometers were tough! Direct sunlight, hills, roots, and 100 degree heat. I tripped and did a somersault on kilometer 8km, but as we came around the reservoir to the finish I found a little reserve of energy and sprinted to the finish.

Just a little over 7 hours...amazing...

My partner Amy Small won the whole thing for the women. It was awesome.

Oh yeah and we came in first place....not bad for our first ultramarathon...