Runs With Mascara: Racing and Pacing: A weekend preview

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Racing and Pacing: A weekend preview

Since it is Wednesday I can officially start thinking about the weekend! Since this weekend should be especially fun I thought I would write a quick preview.

Sam is going to be running all 6 of her remaining toenails at the Dick Collins Firetrails 50 miler! She has kept the podiatrist in business since our run at TransRockies but is strong as ever. I expect to see that awesome "Sam is getting it done" pace (also know as the "I will kick your @## you crazy trail, you're not the boss of me" pace).

Tina, a great friend of Runs with Mascara and awesome athlete will also be running. It is also her birthday so there is sure to be festivities in store. Tina paced me at American River 50 last year and was AMAZING. Why:

She had jokes. She didn't think of jokes to tell me, she actually went online, found jokes, printed them out and brought them in her running pack. She whipped them out (all 4 printed pages) and I almost died laughing!
She had chocolate. Always a great lure!
She stopped talking to me! So cute, as soon as we started running together she told me how she has stopped talking to me days before to ensure we would have plenty to talk about on our run!
She shed a tear at mile 49. So did I, but it was awesome to see her so excited for me.

I hope I am half the pacer Tina was for me. I am looking forward to 13 awesome miles pacing, cheering my heart out, eating amazing food after, high fives that turn to sweaty hugs and some great pictures to share.

Go SAM! Go TINA!

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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.