It Takes a Tribe

March 13, 2018Career, Racing
It seems only fitting that I finished reading Will Dean's It Takes a Tribe: Building the Tough Mudder Movement in the dark at 4:30 in the morning during a power outage while wearing the headlamp I used while I ran 2017's World's Toughest Mudder in Las Vegas. When I had to choose a book about [...]

World’s Toughest Mudder 2017 Success!

November 16, 2017Fitness, Racing
On November 9th, 2017, I left for Las Vegas to have an adventure of a lifetime. I decided for my 40th birthday this year, that I wanted to take on my first ever World’s Toughest Mudder (WTM). Some women would more likely want a designer hand bag or a girls’ weekend away, but I wanted [...]

World’s Toughest Mudder Pre-Race Thoughts

November 6, 2017Fitness, Racing
Then to Now I think back to 2011 when I first learned about Tough Mudder. I wasn't even a runner. I couldn't even run a mile. Just a 10 mile Tough Mudder seemed absurd to me. I saw something on TV about World's Toughest Mudder sometime later that year and I thought, "Who does that?" [...]

OCR World Championships 2017

November 6, 2017Racing
3K Short Course I watched all morning as my friends and teammates ran in the earlier heats for the short course. What made me most nervous was seeing strong teammates struggle at the Battlefrog rig as well as the impending rain in the forecast. Sizing up the obstacles, I thought I'd be able to handle [...]

6x Tough Mudder

July 2, 2016Racing
Another year, another Tough Mudder… or two. June 18, my team and I got up bright and early to hit the Mount Snow course while it was still clean. It was beautiful and sunny and not 50 degrees for once, we were wearing our matching team gear feeling pretty legit, and after we got the [...]

2016 Racing Season In Full Swing

May 20, 2016Racing
I thought I was nuts doing 12 races last year, and yet, I find myself registered for 20 so far in 2016 and I couldn’t be more excited! The thing about OCR is that it doesn’t get dull, at least not yet. The training is varied, interesting, often fun, and the sport is always changing, [...]

2015 Race Recap

October 1, 2015Fitness, Racing
As I sit here typing on a Wednesday night, sore and just plain tired from finally getting back to the gym after 3 weekends straight of big races, I can’t help but feel a bit sad that my very last race of 2015 is coming up October 17. It has been an epic year full [...]

Tough Mudder New England 2015

June 8, 2015Fitness, Racing
Racing season is in full force now that it's June. I took on my 4th Tough Mudder this weekend at Mount Snow with a team of badasses and we had a blast! I've spent my winter working to improve my strength and conditioning so I can be more competitive in my racing this summer, but [...]

2014 Trifecta Tribe Status Earned

October 7, 2014Fitness, Racing

When I ran my first Tough Mudder last year, as soon as I crossed the finish line I thought, “I need a bigger challenge.” Coming from only having done a couple of Warrior Dashes before Tough Mudder, I had initially been nervous about the 10+ mile distance and being able to run much of it … Read More