Runs With Mascara: For the love of running

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

For the love of running

My nephew Austin, the youngest runner I know

You know that person that runs really fast then stops and turns to look at you with a grin before running fast ahead again, legs scrambling, arms flying, shrieks of laughter emanating as you yourself start laughing and almost want to stop because it's too hard to breathe and laugh?

That's a kid. (But it could also be a few trail running friends I know.) It's just the pure delight in realizing what your legs can do; that chemical endorphin that washes over you when you run, feeling your heartbeat and the wind rush across your face.

With San Francisco unveiling the red carpet of an exceptional, if long overdue, indian summer these past few weeks it's the feeling I've had every time I go out to run. Without any training agenda it's the reason I run. It's the reason I love to run. And it's the reason I can never understand the person who says they don't like running. Not the person who can't run or doesn't have time or prefers other things, but the person who just can't stand to run. Find your inner child, people. Or better yet, find a kid who will run with you. Find the love. Or just the like.

Find your inner Phoebe from Friends.

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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.