A Girls’ Weekend Out On the Trails
It had been a while since Ash and I had a full weekend planned out for ourselves so I was excited when we planned a run/hike at Mt. Baldy on Saturday before heading to check out a portion of the Leona Divide 50 course on Sunday. Just late last year we were on the go and I kind of missed that. We started with Cuyamca 100k in San Diego at the beginning of October and finished that month with Javelina Jundred in Arizona. In November I crewed/paced for Ashley’s 100-mile Chimera race before we headed to Joshua Tree to to do some trail exploring and then to Utah to log in some miles on the Zion 100 course. Finally, we left Utah and then headed to Vegas for Christmas to log in some miles around the city and in the Lake Mead area. Phew…that was exhausting but SO much fun! You just can’t compare a girl’s only road trip to anything else — we hop in the rental, turn on Google Maps, get a little lost, eat to our heart’s content and log in as many miles as we can. Oh, and we takes lots of photos. 🙂
So far this year, we have both been a little bit busy with different race agendas but we were still able to travel to SF for NF50 and Catalina for our 50-miler race in January; this past month we headed out to Lake Elsinore for the San Juan 50k and Old Goat’s 50-miler. Beginning this month until the end of the year, we won’t be running any races together but we will be there to support eachother in any way that we can.
Leona will be the first race that Ashley will be crewing and supporting me so I was really excited that she was taking her duties seriously and wanted to get me out on the course so I’d know what to expect. We got out to to the course on Sunday morning, familiarized ourselves with the logistics (pretty simple) and of course crewing and aid station strategies. We left exhausted from our two days worth of excercising and still have plans on getting back out there at least once more before race day. This is what I call a true friend.
Great photo from RUN Like A Girl on FB.
Trace B. 
Glad you have a great friend like that. I’ve never done an ultra but I can imagine support has got to be HUGE. Hell I need huge support when I do my marathons.
P.S. I saw you mentioned Zion… About 8 years ago my family went on a trip to Vegas and rented a car one day and drove to zion… I absolutely loved it there. I have been to a lot of national parks and Zion ties for first with Yellowstone. Some of my favorite pictures ever are from Zion.
April 5, 2013 at 1:36 pm