Runs With Mascara: A Quick Look Back

Monday, August 15, 2011

A Quick Look Back

As noted in the many posts over the last few months, all your RWM news has been coming from my better half, Dana. If it was anyone else, I'd have my excuses in check - work, travel, social commitments, sports, another blog, a long commute, too many carbs slowing down my synapses. But with my travel-nista running partner juggling work spread across multiple continents, an Ironman-training boyfriend, family, friends, spot on training and her quest to make the perfect [insert anything here - bar, muffin, nut butter, hazelnut milk] I have nothing to stand on.

And so, to Dana's mom and all the other Dana loyalists out there who may wonder where the other half of RWM has been and if I've been training and if I'll represent come race day and help make all of Dana's TransRockies goals come true I present you these gratuitous vacation running shots of evidence of my training and commitment while I've been absent from blogging.

(Running on a healthy dose of karma from a monastery outside of Thimphu, Bhutan)

(In northern India, airing it out on the first of a 5 day trek over 12,456 feet. I did not do hill repeats.)

(My first trail run in Bhutan. Short but thrilling. This was clearly my go-to shirt of the trip.)

6+ days and we toe the line in Buena Vista, Colorado to begin our adventure in yet another new place on unfamiliar trails. I've already got a bad playlist running through my head - the kind where you sing a few lines and 35 minutes later you and everyone around you have the same song running through your heads? Who remembers Men at Work? Ain't nothing gonna break my stride? Another topic for another blog. Here we go.

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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.