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Leadwoman – February 2019

In February, I ran ~143 miles and rode ~240 miles.  So many people were so encouraging.  By now, I was letting it leak a little bit what I had signed up for. But, it depended on who asked.  If a runner asked, I just told them I was training for Leadville 100.  If a cyclist asked, I would say Leadville 100 MTB.  It was a pain to explain the whole series and quite frankly, most people didn’t...

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Leadwoman – the training schedule

I wrote my own schedule to begin with.  I absolutely HAVE to plan ahead.  I was teaching at TCU Spring semester.  I had to consider that LP started a new job and the girls schedules.  I needed to know, generally speaking, what my life was going to look like training and racing over the coming months.  I had coaches Gary Anderson, Madison Flowers and Steve Blackmon look at it.  None of them seemed to...

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Leadwoman – training indoors

  Since I had been considering Leadwoman and the need to get better riding MTB, I knew I would have to do some training indoors through the winter and not wait until April when the weather was better like I pretty much did last time.  As I mentioned before, I had reached out to Madison Flowers in October to train at his studio, otherwise known as ‘The Cave.”  I’m not sure why they...

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Leadwoman – signed up for Cowtown marathon training

For Ragnar, I was going to run 4 legs (because we had one runner drop) between 4-7 miles each.  My legs were going to be around 1 p.m., 9 p.m., 4 a.m. and 11 a.m.  I needed to get my butt in gear.  So, I joined FWRUNCO’s Cowtown marathon training with Tamara Ogle and Gary Anderson heading it up.  I started with coach Jack in the 10-10:30 pace group and met a great group of new friends and some old...

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Leadwoman – training began

I trained with the local R2R2R ladies through the summer.  Lots and lots of stairs at TCU stadium.  Lots of hiking including some night hikes.  Some running and MTB mixed in.  I also began bootcamp with Shawna Gibson to work on my strength and Aerial Yoga with Amanda Quintanilla to work on strength and flexibility.  Training was fun.  It was hot.  And there’s were lots of popsicles eaten that...

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Leadwoman – starting with Leadville 2016

Contrary to popular belief, I’m not crazy.  This is exactly what I tried to convince Tiffany Dearman of a few months ago when we she was so nice to ride 50 miles with me.  There is a reason I did all the Leadville races….all this training.  It started almost 4 years ago when my friend John Eddington told me I could get into Leadville 100MTB on a lottery.  And, it gets better.  When there’s a...