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Reporting to you live from the rainiest place on earth. @rac and I planned a getaway this week to Astoria to celebrate his birthday. It rained the entire time and it was lovely. We had a spa day and saw a movie (1917) and enjoyed some calm before the big, busy year ahead. Looking out the window at the sheets of rain whipping across the Columbia River and thinking, “I don’t have to run today!” was also pretty great! #restdaybrags #justoregonthings

If someone had told me a week prior to the race what my result would be, I might have been a little disappointed knowing that I didn’t qualify for the Trials. Instead, all I could feel was pride and happiness for having accomplished something well beyond what I’d ever done before. It gave me a new understanding of what’s possible. My Houston Marathon race recap is up! Link in bio. 📷: @fredis_b #houmarathon #otqinhou #rosecitytrack #hareac

This photo was taken yesterday but very representative of the second half of my race in the Houston Marathon today. I went out faster than I ever have, hanging with the huge OTQ pace group through about the halfway mark (running a half marathon PR). It was amazing running in a pack like that at a pace so fast! I didn’t look at my watch at all. It felt so easy until it didn’t. I made the choice to let the pack go and run at a pace that felt sustainable to me for the rest of the race, around 6:40-50s, and held on for a 6 minute PR in 2:51! I’m still a little bit in shock, while I missed my very very big Olympic Trials goal I couldn’t stop smiling when I saw the clock at the finish line. I still can’t believe it. Many more thoughts to come but I’m so so proud of my friends, teammates, and fellow pdx runners that gave it their all today. There was magic in the air! 📷: @fredis_b

Happiest birthday to my love @rac. Thanks for supporting my dreams even on your birthday. I love you! Throwback to xc conference champs forever ago!

Clear eyes, full hearts, CAN’T LOSE! (We’re in Texas so I had to) #houmarathon

My #mood going into the Houston Marathon: calm, confident, and ready to roll. After taking a very careful and conservative approach in Chicago this fall, and reaching my goal of setting a PR there, I’m sort of looking at Houston as a “bonus” marathon where I can throw all caution to the wind and for the first time, truly and wholeheartedly go after one of my life goals of qualifying for the US Olympic Marathon Trials. On paper that goal is a long shot–my current PR is 2:57 and I need to run a 2:45 or better to qualify–but every time I feel silly about wanting it or think about letting the dream go, I’ll get some sort of affirmation in my training or racing that I’m on the right track. Last month I ran a 1:22 half out of nowhere on a course with a giant hill at the start- and I felt pretty good doing it! I’ve hit times in workouts this season that I never thought were possible for me. I also stretched myself in a new way this season, running a 100K race in horrid conditions. When you compare running 66.6 miles of technical trail with insane climbs and descents, in the dead of night with a steady cold rain... suddenly the thought of running 26.2 miles, during the day, in cool dry conditions, at a steady clip with ZERO rocks or roots in sight, doesn’t seem so bad! A sub-3 hour race is a sprint in comparison to 14+! However the race goes on Sunday, I’m so looking forward to celebrating this ten year Olympic pursuit and leaving everything I have out there before moving on to prepare for my Appalachian Trail adventure this summer. If I achieve my goal.... wow, I don’t even know how I’d feel! If I don’t, please please don’t feel sad or bummed for me. I’m in a very good place. You NEVER know what you’re capable of until you put yourself out there and try! #houmarathon #olympictrials #rosecitytrack #hareac #trytrytry 📷: @stevenmortinson

You’re telling me at mile 20 I get baked potatoes, grilled cheese, bacon, soda, and hot soup? What am I, some kind of queen? Tales from my first ultra, if you haven’t read it yet my recap is up now! #linkinbio Photo: @jessica_croisant

Happy New Year! It seems only fitting with all my athletic pursuits that I ended up ringing in the new year wearing track suit bottoms rolled up to look like bloomers under my shiny shimmery dress. That wasn’t exactly the plan, but since I’d forgotten to pack half of my outfit, I had to improvise. It reminded me of the fun fact from Game of Thrones in which Daenerys wore riding pants under all of her dresses so she could escape on her dragon at any moment.🤓 I guess you could say I started 2020 ready to hit the ground running. Let’s go!!!

Farewell, 2019!

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