My shin is healing up and now I can only remember the good memories from Bighorn… photo credit @cmurphyrunner #type2fun #100miles #ultrarunning (at Sheridan, Wyoming) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfM28STPNIL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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And today we begin: TAJI100- 100 rucking miles in the month of February! Join @teamrwbsandiego, @tritonruckclub, and @tritonnorcal on the TEAM RWB SAN DIEGO team as we CRUSH miles in February! New in 2023, there are FOUR ways to earn your miles/meters: 2023 TAJI 100 ACTIVITY OPTIONS: • NEW: 200,000 meters rowing • 100 miles run/walk/hike/elliptical • 300 miles cycling • 25 miles swimming Registration and access to the tracking page is FREE (including earning wicked badges!), but paid registration gets you swag including the shirt and the beastly medal - this year, this grand belt buckle! http://taji100.com #taji #100miles #support #family #Run #runners #ruck #rucking https://www.instagram.com/p/CoH8Bg-LTSP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Ride London 100 … special day for me as first time to do it with some amazing people in my club…started with a 6am cold crisp but sunny 🌞 morning on the mall with BPalace with all its glory flags ready for this weeks Jubilee was breathtaking … following on to start line then ride stopped at 40 ish miles due to emergency … 25 mins later we started again and stopped halfway 50 miles Felstead feeding station where we found some welcome club faces as our club was volunteering there … we would be nothing without you Thanks 🙏 ❤️ The next 50 miles after fuelling up absolutely perfectly thanks to Isagenix®… was the best part for me .. oh what fun drafting is … get a ride with all the different packs plus individuals sticking on back wheels is brave and terrifying when riding with strangers but this is what cycling is about plus taking your turn 🤣 🚴 … there were some who were not as fortunate to stay safe and my heart ❤️ is with them you know who u are …. Today I felt strong, never underestimate how much the training plays a part you cannot cut corners … Finally coming into the finish line at the iconic Tower Bridge definitely a proud moment 100 achievement! Not forgetting so proud of my club athletes 20 of them along the route you were awesome today 🥰🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴 🏰 #ridelondon #ridelondon100 #ridelondon2022 #embankment #towerbridge #thisgirlcan #bike #cycling #ride #100miles #isagenix #nutrition #eshot #ampedhydrate #ampednitro #wholeblendbar #isaleanshake #harlowrunningandtriclub #triathlon #triathloncoach #bethebestyoucanbe #livbikes #shimano #spin11 #220gram (at Tower Bridge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeLUamet6an/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The Wildest Month
Although I’ve been in the midst of training for Ironman Waco and Waco 70.3, I haven’t allowed myself to shy away from challenges. In fact, I decided to test myself more over a one month period mere weeks out of my back to back races.
It all started on August 8th, 2022. I was, quite frankly, bored with the regular progressive training of Ironman. So, I decided to push it and set out to run a marathon in peak, August in Texas heat of 111 degrees.
At the marathon mark, I was feeling great, and thought “why not go 5 more miles and hit a 50km?” and after just 3 hours and 55 minutes, I finished 31.1 miles.
While I was proud of what I had done (this was the furthest that I had run in nearly two years), the thought was in my mind: What have I been leaving on the table?
That haunting idea lingered in my head for a few days - until that following Sunday. I decided that I needed to really test myself and run 100 miles. No crowds, no medals, no trophies - just me and Texas.
So on August 18, I woke up at 2:30am and set out.
I actually Live-Tweeted it.
Through Texas heat, torrential downpour, excruciating blisters, chaffing, a broken foot and a lot of suffering, I kept my commitment to myself and finished the 100 miles in 25 hours (the first 76.5 miles took only 15 hours - and then I took my shoes off - the last 23.5 took 10 hours).
Fortunately, my friends Chris and Brian showed up to help get me through those last excruciating miles.
While my feet were decimated, I was happy to have finally put myself into the crucible once more and force myself to push beyond my known capabilities.
But it still wasn’t enough.
Ten days later, I though to myself “Why don’t I just do an Ironman as well?”
And just 13 days after the 100 mile run on August 31st, I was at the pool at 5am, ready to do a self-staffed full Ironman. Except I swam 3.6 miles instead of just 2.4. Due to storms, I was forced to do the ride on my indoor bike trainer. I had forgotten that the AC repair guy was coming that day, so there I was, 6 hours on the bike trainer, upstairs in my house where the thermostat read 91 degrees (which is like 200 outside).
Shortly into the 26.2 mile run I realized how terrible of an idea this was and how bad my feet were busted, but I pushed on. Even with oozing blisters and throbbing feet, I still finished the marathon portion in 4 hours.
I also Live-Tweeted the Ironman as well.
So a 100 mile run and an Ironman+ in 13 days. Considering that less than 4 years ago I couldn’t run 1/4 of a mile, you’d think I’d be satisfied.
Not quite.
After about a week and a half, I was reading through Twitter and noticed how nearly every person on Fitness Twitter pretends to live like a month. Actually, they make it seem like it’s required to do anything substantial.
Well, I’m a bit of a fuck up, so I began to wonder how degenerate I could be and still do something physically exerting. That’s when I hatched the idea to run a marathon and simultaneously drink at least one case (24) of beer.
Oh, and I live tweeted the disaster on September 13th.
While it was obviously one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done, I did manage to drink over 30 beers and run a marathon. While I don’t remember much of it, I think I proved the point that fitness doesn’t require you to live like a saint or be perfect.
If I didn’t get that point across, I still had a lot of fucking fun.
Now, here I am 17 days out of Waco, where I’ll be doing the full and half Ironman on consecutive days as the Gold Star Initiative representative, where I’ll be carrying full sized American flags on the run portions of each race to give to families of fallen military members at each respective finish line.
After that? I don’t know for sure. But I do know this - I’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible for me, and I know that if I can do some of these things, absolutely anyone can. We are capable of more than we know.
Keep moving forward, gang.
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