Tag: Trail race

Hennepin 100

“How can I do 30 MORE miles on these feet?”  Every step I took felt like stepping on glass in bare feet and it wasn’t just one foot. It was both. Hot, stabbing pain in the balls of both feet. I knew I couldn’t change my gait too much, especially since I had 30 miles to go. What muscle would…

Ice Age Trail 50 – 2015

“Two more up and downs and we’re there!” I said to Dean, but mostly I was telling myself. I picked Dean up around mile 32 after a tough climb out to Emma Carlin. I couldn’t run downhills anymore.   “It doesn’t even matter anymore,” he replied.   But it did. After the roller coaster day I had and the pain…