Running
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Ragnar Trail Relay VT – Mt Ascutney
The first weekend in August I participated in my second Ragnar Trail–in Vermont! My friend Margaret captained our team “Peer Pressure Heads for the Hills” for a run-through-the-night trail relay in the mountains of Vermont. Three of us drove up from Albany on Thursday evening, camped out and awaited our team to arrive on Friday morning. Since I was Runner #1, I started things off at 9am on Friday. My first loop was “Green”, AKA the easy loop. But there wasn’t anything easy about it. It had just started raining, the trails were getting slick, and the first half of the 3ish-mile leg was up a mountain. Green LoopDistance…
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2017 Senenca 7 Relay
Every year since 2015 I’ve run the Seneca 7 Relay! It is a 77.7 relay race around Seneca Lake starting and ending in Geneva, NY. I love it because of the gorgeous scenery and the fact that our team can spend the previous day wine tasting great Finger Lakes wine! We rented the same house in Geneva we had last year, which is perfect because it is only a few minutes from the starting line of the race! On Sunday April 30, we got up super early for our 6:30am start time. It was a lot colder than we wanted, but at least it wasn’t raining! We all ordered matching…
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Winter Adventure Update
No, I did not fall off the face of the Earth! I’ve neglected this space for the past month because I’ve been busy with my clinical rotation of my Dietetic Internship! On January 16th I started this 13 week rotation at a hospital in Western Massachusetts, so I’ve been living in the Berkshires during the week and returning back to the Capital Region on the weekends. It has been going pretty well so far! I plan on doing a Day in the Life of Clinical Dietetic Intern pretty soon! But here’s what I’ve been up to. +Fat biking! Last weekend Jordan and I drove with a few of his friends to…
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2016 Troy Turkey Trot 10K
It’s somewhat of a tradition for my friends and I to run the Troy Turkey Trot 10K on Thanksgiving morning. You may have noticed I haven’t been running much lately! I’ve had a reoccurring hip issue for the past few months. I took the entire month of October off from running and skipped two half marathons I was signed up for, hoping that it would get better. On Halloween I ran for the first time in a month, with short runs here and there after that, nothing over four miles. I had thought my hip was healed! At about mile 5 of the Turkey Trot, my hip started aching (not enough to…
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Over the Top Trail Run/ Mountain Bike Ride at West Mountain
So, I’m behind on my blog posts, but it’s never too late to catch up, right? Back in August, I signed up for my first ever duathlon, a 5K trail run and 10k mountain bike ride at West Mountain in Queensbury. image from West Mountain’s facebook page I really had no idea what to expect from this race. I signed up for it with a few of our friends, and none of us got any emails or anything about the logisitics. We just knew it started at 10:00am at West Mountain Ski Resort. We got there at about 9:15, picked up our shirts and bibs and headed over to the starting…