Runs With Mascara: You Never Forget Your First

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

You Never Forget Your First

Vespa.
Peter.
Western States 100 training camp.
You had us at "try one."

How could you have known we were just diving in to our sponsorship crusade? On the precipice of opening a new avenue for willing - even unwilling - sponsors? Our journey to TransRockies as much about physical and mental preparation as it is about promotion and creativity?

Runs With Mascara received its first unofficial sponsor Sunday morning when Peter, a distributor for Vespa who'd strategically parked beside us, handed us 2 Vespas minutes before we headed out on the 20 mile training run.

Whether it was the high from that unsolicited sponsorship or the Vespa itself, this Runs With Mascara girl saw a noticeable boost in effort that day with her usual minimal intake of food. And while the price point of Vespa originally raised eyebrows, given this first time exposure, I think it's safe to say we'll be testing it out again.

More firsts on the weekend runs? Socks, a new hydration pack, a new running skirt. Stay tuned for updates.

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About Runs with Mascara

Who is Team Runs with Mascara?

Runs with Mascara is Dana Katz and Samantha Pinney - training partners and friends for the past 3 years; adventurers with a flair for musicals and running skirts, and a generous respect for looking good when sweating hard. While they’ve had many adventures across the West, one of their more epic spans was a week they spent racing from the Bizz Johnson trail marathon in northern California to rappeling in Arches National Park, to biking the White Rim Trail in southern Utah to running the Moab Half Marathon. This is their first race endeavor as a team under the name RWM.

Samantha Pinney overcame the malls of her New Jersey youth for an obsession with the outdoors that carries her from skiing to ultra running to outrigger canoeing and whatever adventures she can find. She can’t imagine life without running skirts, flip flops or beanies and wields a kettle ball as deftly as she does a mascara wand. She competed in the 2010 Crossfit Team Games, has multiple top 10 finishes to her name but can’t throw a softball to save her life. She’d like to be a better surfer.

Dana Katz is a recovering triathlete and cyclocross racer turned ultrarunner. She eats hills for breakfast that she doctors with homemade concoctions of flaxseed and ginger granola in her ongoing quest to create ridiculously healthy and delicious meals. Dana is a globetrotter who in a recent span ran a ½ marathon in Brazil, a trail run in Sweden, a marathon in northern California and a harried loop amongst the monuments of Washington D.C. before boarding a plane. She doesn’t leave home without her running skirt and snacks. Don’t let Dana’s easy-going, amicable personality fool you: she trains like a warrior and competes with a vengeance.