Orange Mud

  • Training Day

    Training Day

    I have been training – or at least acting like I’m training – to run the North Fork 50 mile trail race on June 4. Part of that training was running the Desert Rats Trail Running Festival – you can read about that on my previous post. I made arrangements to participate in a training run…

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  • The Day I became a Desert Rat

    I wasn’t planning on running a marathon last weekend. I originally was going to do the half marathon distance – but I’d been doing 12-14 miles on the weekend and doing 13 wasn’t really going to benefit my training. In spite of the fact that I’m supposed to be training for a 50 mile race…

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  • What’s in YOUR closet?

    What’s in YOUR closet?

    How can a post that sounds like Samuel L. Jackson go wrong? Guess we shall find out. At the request of my younger sister, Cassidy, I am doing a post about what is in my closet.  I was going to title it ‘What’s in my drawers’, which made me giggle, but I digress.  I will not be sharing…

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  • Bear Chase Race 50k

    Bear Chase Race 50k

    Well, I did it.  I made it to the finish line of a 50k race! What a day – what a good day! The day started off on a high note when I got to meet Melissa – a friend on Twitter, who convinced me to sign up for this particular race. She was running the…

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