About Me

My Journey to Running

Running wasn't my first sport. I played basketball and jumped over some hurdles in track and spent a lot of time riding my bike as a kid.  I started running in my late 40's when my older kids were off at college.  I had started with hiking to get into shape and then was asked by a friend to run a marathon with her.  She was a breast cancer survivor, and a marathon was a bucket list thing for her. I figured if she could survive cancer, I could survive running 26.2 miles!

One marathon led to another, but it was the trails that I had hiked where I wanted to be and where I soon found trail running and ultrarunning.

I have since run many ultramarathon, 50K, 50-mile and 100K distances along with completing over 20 different 100 milers. I’ve run in some of the most beautiful places and learned a lot of lessons along the way that will help me guide you as a coach.