Monthly Archives: August 2014
August 12 Pony Play
| August 13, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It was pointed out that I have been lax in posting Merrylegs pictures. Mostly because my photo opportunities look like this: Tonight I went out to the stable and made a point of taking along the camera. Only to turn it on and find out that somehow the photo card had gotten “write protected”. Major […] more
Of Goals, Flexibility, and the future
| August 10, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
At the beginning of every month we discuss what happened in the previous month – miles ran, hours ridden, events finished. I call these “IRL” posts and they are designed to give people who stumble across this post a real time look at actual amount of conditioning I do in order to ride (or run!) […] more
SF 50mi ultra Q & A
| August 6, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Event Report |
Some of these are real questions, some are questions I *wanted* to answer. if I missed something leave a question in the comments. Did your toenails fall off? Nope. Not even sore, not even discolored. I’ve never had a toenail tragedy and part of me feels like I’m missing out on a quintessential part of […] more
SF 50 Ultra Comic
| August 5, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Event Report |
I did it! I ran a not-so-easy fifty mile ultramarathon and finished! Fortunately for *me* ( and rather unfortunately for the blog…) I had a good running day that happen to coincide with race day. I find in these longer races that unless things went very very wrong, nobody cares about a play by play […] more
July IRL 2014
| August 4, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I know, this isn’t the post you wanted to see. You want to see MEL’S FIRST 50 MILE ULTRAMARATHON story. Well. I have sad news for you. Because the timeline of my ultra looked approximately like this…. …it’s going to take me a couple more days to put it together. *Cue impatient sobbing and whining* […] more
