Runs With Mascara: Salt Point 26k Trail Run

Monday, August 15, 2011

Salt Point 26k Trail Run

Taper is fun! Hi all, Dana here. Since I am tapering to be rested for TransRockies next week I have cut my weekly mileage in half. To keep up the intensity I signed up for the Pacific Coast Trail Run at Salt Point. Although a bit of a drive, it was totally worth it. First, Salt Point State Park is a great place! Check out the California coast in this picture- it can't be beat!

Post-race heading home down Highway 1.

The trails were runnable, on varied terrain and provided some great vistas. Doing the 26k or 16.6 miles by my Garmin was the best part as I could run "fast" or at least faster than the all day pace I normally do at races and I loved feeling reckless. I saw 8:20 pace on my watch multiple times and thought of my sister, Nora as we joke that our genetic top speed is 8:30 minute miles!
When I finished I made a resolution to include more shorter distance racing into my training as my competitive spirit is a good motivator for running faster than I would normally.

After the race I checked out the beach, walked meadow edges and stood in the glorious ocean breeze with my fabulous companion Chance. Although the park trails didn't allow dogs there were enough places for us to explore.

Chance is the king of the roadtrip.

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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.