Runs With Mascara: Diana Finkel, Karl Metzer and Dana Katz in the Hoka club

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Diana Finkel, Karl Metzer and Dana Katz in the Hoka club

So it is official, Dana's Hoka's are here to stay. This is what she is saying about them:

"They are like running on a marshmallow, in a good way"
"It is like switching from a hardtail mountain bike to a fully suspended bike."
"The downhilling is insanely good. NO hurting knees, feet feel great. I roll right over things."
"No. More. Foot pain!"

So Dana has now done 4 runs of 3+ hours and tons of climbing on the Hoka Mafate Women's and it moved her to take the Hoka ad and put herself in it! (see above) She tried the Hoka's to relieve pain on the bottom of her feet (or maybe to try and be super fast like Diana Finkel!) and it worked. 20+ mile runs involve no foot pain. In the rain they did just fine, in the heat they were great (reports say they are pretty hot but that wasn't a problem for her). The only problem was a stink that smelled like rotten meat after a wet run but after a few hours of baking them in the sun that seemed to go away.

At this point the only drawback is the high price and the goofy look (although when you have great lashes with blinc mascara and an adorable running skirt, no one should be looking anyway!)

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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.