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  • Nebo Scenic Byway FKT

    Read about the Nebo Scenic Byway FKT at Trail Sisters: Nebo Scenic Byway FKT & Interrogating My Privilege to Run and view the FKT and route at Mount Nebo Scenic Byway. Read more

  • West Mountain South and North Summit Trail FKT

    West Mountain South and North Summit Trail FKT

    Mid-week last week, the last race of my summer racing season was officially cancelled. I’d anticipated that it was coming, but I’d been holding onto a last vestige of hope that because the race would be small and held on the trails, they’d find a way to make it happen, safely. With the cancellation of Read more

  • Collegiate Peaks Loop FKT

    Collegiate Peaks Loop FKT

    See the article in The Observer about my (past) Collegiate Peaks Loop Women’s Fastest Known Time: Opelika resident, Auburn University assistant professor records fastest known time on a Colorado trail last month. Fastest Known Time Link: Collegiate Loop The path to choosing to attempt to set the women’s FKT for the Collegiate Trail Loop is, Read more

  • Southern Fried 50/50 50k Recap

    Southern Fried 50/50 50k Recap

    I had a 50k on the books for this weekend, but after two weeks (and three events) of hard racing, my legs had a lot of accumulated fatigue. My let foot, especially, has been feeling the strain. I wasn’t sure if I should do the 50k on my training plan as a race or try Read more

  • Weekend Double Feature: I Run Opelika 5k & XTERRA Auburn Trail 20k

    Weekend Double Feature: I Run Opelika 5k & XTERRA Auburn Trail 20k

    After last week’s fantastically tough marathon race at H9 – Dragon’s Spine, I wasn’t sure how quickly I was going to recover from the epic ascents and descents of the H9, so I didn’t sign up for the 5k the following Saturday (I’d already registered for the XTERRA Auburn Trail 20k, so I couldn’t take Read more

  • H9 Marathon Race Recap

    H9 Marathon Race Recap

    The day dawned cool and fresh. And early. I had been in Atlanta since Tuesday, so luckily the 4 am wake up call wasn’t as shocking to my system as it could have been (3 am my time), but I still wasn’t delighted to be awake and racing. In my journal entry that morning, I Read more