Runs With Mascara: Spoiler alert: Sam wins AG at Urbanathalon!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Spoiler alert: Sam wins AG at Urbanathalon!

The Urbanathalon is in the books! What a fun day. The event was just over 9 miles with some obstacles in the way. The race started with a run up some of San Francisco's finest hills and over to AT&T park, our baseball stadium. I ran with my favorite other half, Brian and best favorite endurance power couple, Jeff and Jessica. Sam ran like the devil, chasing glory solo. You already know the results of that, PURE AWESOME. We crawled under barriers, under jeeps and under nets. We went over concrete dividers, high walls and taxi cabs (yeah, that felt good stomping on the hood). We laughed, we ran, we were ridiculous as we hoped to be!

Event highlights:

A brief but glorious reunion with some TransRockies pals during the race and after (see above).
Conquering a full set of monkey bars without a pause. (Yeah for small victories!)
Running with some of my favorite people, all together. That won't happen again for a long time.
Sam coaching me from the crowd (yes, she was done already) over the final wall at the finish. Conversation as follows...

Dana- just staring at wall mouth most likely hanging open a bit, speechless
Sam from crowd- "Grab the rope!!!"
Dana grabs the rope with feet on wall then pulling and realizing there will be no upward progress with this method, "NOW WHAT?!?!?!?"
Nice volunteer pushes me by my behind up and over the wall. So much for girl power. Thank you nice man, I needed that!

Check out Sam with her prize. So cool. Even better, that rockin pink skirt. Thanks Jen Stover for the photographic evidence that we were there. I am itching for what's next. Off season, you are over!

1 comment:

UnknownNovember 14, 2011 at 9:29 PM
Wow!! I didn't know you were participating at the Urbanathlon! Jessica running, wow!!! The two greatest endurance power couples of Mill Valley and surroundings at the Urbanathlon - wow!! And I didn't know Sam had won but it doesn't surprise me, she is the strongest and fittest woman I know. Congrats to all, awesome, awesome, awesome!!!
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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.