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[nasaragargonnu]

Yay…I’m a NUUN AMBASSADOR! 💧 😋 #nuun #nuunlife #run #nuunambassador #running #garmin #runnersofinstagram #teamnuun #runner #nuunbassador #nuunlove #honeystinger #hshive #nuunhydration #garminfitness #shokzsquad #ultrarunner #garminfenix #runhappy #bettertogether #shinrinyoku #injinji #runningasone #tailwindnutrition #beastmode #dohardthings #ultramarathontraining #movingandbeingstill #ragnartrail #instarunners (at Coach Nasara Gargonnu) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQ50_bOxGv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gogohedgehoglegs]

Hogsback Half Marathon

Hogsback Half Marathon

September 28, 2019

And with this race, the fall racing season begins for me- I decided to take it easier this fall, running only 4 half marathons- I just didn't put in the miles over the summer to justify even trying to run a full without being completely miserable.  This will be the first fall in a long time(2010!!) that there hasnt been at least 1 marathon.

This race is a great race- it is up in the northwest corner, so lots of trees and not so many cars- exactly how I like it.  Its also one of the largest fundraisers for Running For Rescues, an organization I started funding raising for after I found out about them last year, at this same race.

I got there plenty early, even before the early start headed out- parking can be tight because of it being at the reservoir, so Id rather get there early and sit and read.  I wandered my way down the hill to the finish area to catch up with a friend- she had planned to run, but an ankle injury changed her plans.  Got to spend some time with her, and then on to the pre-race ritual of hanging out in the portalet lines.  But finally, its go time!

The race starts with a little bit of uphill- but this is New England after all, hills are part of the game.  After the uphill, the next couple miles are actually downhill, and the groups spread out pretty quickly.  I had no idea what I wanted time-wise for the race, and I had initally started with the 2:05 group to try and dampen my tendency to run the first miles way too fast, but I still found myself pulling ahead of the group.  I was nervous about doing that, mostly because I really didn't want to go too fast and blow up, but I was feeling ok, and it was downhill, so I figured banking a minute or two couldn't hurt.  

What I think is most interesting is this is a race without any really significant landmarks.  Normally I think of races and I think of a horse statue, or some old inn, or Elizabeth Park, etc etc...and yet, other than recalling the race from prior seasons, I remember some hills a little more than others, but there's no particularly distinct things.  Which I think I love! We so often find ourselves counting the miles more in races because we're looking for the next marker, the next split- are we on pace? Are we running negative splits?

But here? You just relax and run.

So maybe this wasn't my fastest.  Hey, maybe its actually a new personal worst.  But maybe there's something to be said for just enjoying the day and the fact that I can still run, despite all the moodiness of my heel, a tight hip that just refuses to do what I want it to...im still out here.

Final stats:

2:02:24

115/370 overall, 52/237 women, 13/32 F30-39

[em1tulsa]

Crushed it. PATHFINDER Ruck Training Marathon Ruck Challenge! 26.2 miles rucked with a 30 pound steel plate plus water and gear. Strong, fast start with James C. Milton Jeff Johnson and power rucker Scott Grage. Picked up Chris Winkler at Turkey Mountain and he saw me to the end with his solid, military pace. Thank, guys!! Wouldn't have done it without you! AND NO CIRCLES IN THE PARKING LOT!!!! FINALLY!!! LOL Really grateful for my crew! @green.country.ruckers is made up of awsome people!! Swipe for #Relive video 🇺🇸 #fitover40 #oldmanstrength #beingweakisdangerous #tusaflag #bewaretheoldmanwheremandieyoung #vetusbellator #bewarethechair #StayHydrated #GORUCK @GORUCK #GORUCKtraining #embracethesuck @GreenCountryRuckers #GreenCountryRuckers #nuunambassador #nuunbassador #nuunlife #1stPhorm #legionofboom @livesore #livesore #livesoreambassador #livesorenation #embracethepain (at Tulsa, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoF83arlpjZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12uboi8kb4etj

[musingsoflulu]

Killed my workout killed it killed it killed it 🙌🏼

[prettylittlepottymouth]

So this happened today....Ran my fastest trail 5k. 26:40 official time! Took 1st place in my AG. PR'd the course by 2:05. Won a fucking turkey! 4th year running this race. It's tough, but I love it! I love the trails. I love our state parks. I fucking love that I ran without pain. I fucking loved the taste of blood in my mouth afterwards. I'm a happy girl! Splits - 8:13, 8:30, 9:11. 😃 - - #runnergirl #teamnuun #nuunbassador #rungum #runningcommunity #igrunnerz #runnersofig #stravarun #runners_of_insta #runnersofinstagram #fitover40 #40isthenew20fit #womenrunners #michiganrunner #trailrunners #trailrunning #runmichigan #runmuskegon #wakeupkickassrepeat

[newwaveswimbuoy]

Credit to @dsmith_1313 : So ready for summer to get here! 🏊🏻♂🚴🏻♂🏃🏻♂ . . . . posted on Instagram - https://newaveswim.com/2GA2EsQ

[itsgettingeasier]

Welcome to the family! Let's get this thing going! #nuunlife #nuunbassador https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFwIJsgieC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dxwkk9pac1pd

[brendaruns]

Excited to be part of #teamnuun again for 2019 😀. This months challenge, we will be planking for the number of minutes of he date! 3 minutes done for the day. #plankchallenge . . . . . . #nuunlife #nuun #nuunambassador #nuunlove #nuunbassador #runnersofinstagram #stayhydrated #runningcommunity #womensrunningcommunity #run #bike #swim #triathlontraining #makeyourwatercount #teamnuun #teamnuun2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMAe7eB79r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=189is1damwu9p

[tabitharuns26-2]

My go-to fueling today. I have trouble with gels and such making my nauseous so I figured I won't even go there and eat food. It worked but I didn't fuel soon enough. Always a work in progress. #teamnuun #nuunbassador

[vivian-runs]

Ride #2 of the day #iamvelocity #trimafia #resultsstarthere #swimbikerun #nuunbassador

[nasaragargonnu]

It’s always cool to vibe with the #SanDiego Run Community from the “Other Side!” Today @makena7777 and I represented @nuunhydration at the 2022 @afchalfmarathon and 5K Fitness EXPO! #AFCHalf #NuunHydration #Bibrave #nuun #nuunlife #run #nuunambassador #running #runnersofinstagram #teamnuun #runner #nuunbassador #nuunlove #ultrarunner #runningasone ##beastmode #dohardthings #ultramarathontraining #ragnartrail #instarunners (at America's Finest City Half Marathon) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChgbJahOLcE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gogohedgehoglegs]

Colorado 13er

Colorado 13er

June 2, 2019

So I almost don't know how to tell the story of the half marathon.  Because its not JUST a half marathon. This was a big weekend adventure for me.  I told some of the story in an earlier blog post, so the short version of it is that this race was the crown jewel of the weekend long Skirt Sports Ambassador retreat.  I flew in on Friday, got to visit what all of us ambassadors refer to as “The Mothership,” AKA the Skirt Sports store, and finally meet so many of the wonderful women ive known through facebook and some other meetups all these years.  I of course spent too much at the story(how do you not when yore flying southwest, so you can check a bag of all the goodies?!?!?!), and had the most amazing Pie and Bubbly courtesy of another ambassador Erin, who owns a pie shop in TX.  Yep, you read that right- she flew from TX to CO with so many lemon pies and peanut butter pies. And man oh man am I so glad she did, they were just amazing!

The official retreat kicked off that night with a bunch of speakers, happy hour, beers, and more friends. Yours truly was given the award of Miss Skirt 2019, for my overall contribution as an ambassador, which I was most humbled by- to me I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary, I was just sharing my love of the brand.  

Saturday started with an early morning hike, which brought some of the most beautiful views I have seen in a very long time, mostly because its been 20 years since ive been to Colorado. Breakfast was awesome- a huge old plate of home fries, my kind of breakfast!  The second day was jam packed- speaks through the morning, with some short moving sessions to keep us all from getting squirrelly.  Dinner was great with a friend Amy(local), and another friend of hers, and then the vintage fashion show to end the evening.

Morning dawned quickly- the race starts at 630am, but that's mountain time, so really that's 830 for this East Coaster, so no big deal.  Nuun, decaf coffee, and the leftover pizza was breakfast, and the carb loading was complete.  I wondered how I would do, my diet this weekend left something to be desired- it was really just potatoes, beer, more potatoes, a veggie hummus wrap, more beer, pizza, and more beer.  I think there were some veggies on the pizza!  Met up with some other ambassadors to snag a ride, helped Amy get her bike in the car(she was doing a bike race that morning), and then over to the start we went.

The race went off, with me pretty in the middle of the pack.  This used to be a women's only race, so lots of women, and only a few men in the crowd.  The race is primarily on all of the womderful crushed gravel trails/paths that wind all around Boulder and Louisville- I want to call them railtrails because that's what we have, but these are all bike/run/walk paths that are just all around.  This is a 2 loop course- you run out, run along the trails(watch out for the geese, they're not friendly!), almost back down to the startline, loop around and cone, and do it all over again.  I must say I just loved this course- you go uphill, its flat, then you go downhill.  The crushed gravel was such pleasant footing- that perfect cushy, without kicking up stones, and have I mentioned the Rockies all around you?? And the big sky?? And the fact that I can breath for the first time in 20 years?

Yes, yes, I know I'm at altitude. A lot of it.  Yes, yes, I know I'm technically a flat-lander, and that doesn't make any sense.  But that's the truth of it.  I love being at altitude, I liken living in the northeast to feeling like you're drowning all the time.  I don't know why. Maybe its just the fresh air, maybe that its not as polluted, I have no idea, I just know it was glorious.  For the first rae in a long time- it was easy to breath, I wasn't sucking wind, and I wasn't in pain.  I could have run a marathon today, and it would have been awesome.

I have to also say it was fun running with so many Skirt Sisters.  I don't think ive ever been at a race when I knew so many people.  As much as it wasn't local for me, I knew more people through this- this extrovert doesn't belong to any local running clubs, so this race was much more with my tribe.  Its such an encourgaging atmosphere- with the figure 8 course, and multiple distances, there was a ton of people out there. When I came off the second loop and back down the hill toward the finish, it felt great to head down that hill.  I'd set no expectations for this race- between the traveling, the retreat, the recovery from training(Lake Waramaugh was only a month earlier, and Rhinebeck Marathon only 2 weeks after that), and the fun and games eating wise, I knew the stars were not quite going to be in alignment.  I have to admit, after running a race that felt that good, I contemplated if it was a sign we really should move out West, whether I should just eat potatoes all day every day, or whether just letting all the pressures go meant that much.  I will say I still technically ran a new personal worst, but if I'm going to have that much fun, it was worth every second.

I crossed the finish line, and then spent the next 1.5 hours with my Sisters, doing zumba, eating cake, and cheering in runner after runner.  I must say, I can't wait for next time!

Final stats:

2:00:29

36/224 overall, 20/177 women, 5/59 women 35-39

[em1tulsa]

Great race! Awesome ruck crew, including three fully-geared up firefighters who rightfully took 1st-3rd place in the men's rucking division. Not my best chip time, but still a fun one. #RocktheBOK #TulsaOilersArenaChallenge #TulsaOilers #stairtraining #RucktheStairs #allthestairs #fleetfeettulsa #enigmamachinetulsa #fitover50 #silverbeard #oldmanstrength #nuunlife #StayHydrated #nuunlove #beingweakisdangerous #GreenCountryRuckers #RWBRucking #RockTheRoute #RT66RunAmbassador #nuunbassador #charitychallenges #thankfulforsomuch (at Tulsa, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZy47bdLqps/?utm_medium=tumblr

[musingsoflulu]

Birthday Eve: crushing workouts, the patriarchy, etc, etc

[prettylittlepottymouth]

Longer than I expected run in the rain with my daughter on her bike as my company. She's the one who wanted to go further. I wanted 4! Happy I had her company today. Didn't know I'd end up entering a wet tee shirt contest! Glad my Handful bra was there to save me! #handful #nuunlife #nuunbassador #oisellevolée #oiselle #runningmotivation #runnergirl #run #runningcommunity #rainyrun #familyfun #goingthedistance #womensrunning #womenrunners #marathontraining #fitoverforty #fitness #runningaddict #runordie #fitfam #runmichigan #lovetherun #motivationmonday #determination #stravarun #wakeupkickassrepeat

[joyful-miles]

Awesome #joyfuljumpshot turkey style!! Love this! ❤️ #Repost with @travel_running_disney . . . Is it even Thanksgiving if you don’t run a Turkey Trot? 🦃🏃🏻‍♀️🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! . . . #turkeytradition #missouriruns #turkeytrot #thanksgiving #joyfuljumpshot #rawthreads #rawthreadsclub #sparkleskirts #goodr #playgoodr #procompression #keepittight #nuunlife #nuunbassador #marathonmaniacs #halffanatics #teamrundisney #gallowaymethod #gallowaytrained #runner #runhappy #werunsocial #runnersofinstagram #instatunners #womensrunningcommunity #stlrunner #runstl #charitymiles #everymilematters https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq176JNBDyP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d8adzjrgxe3