50 Miles of “Fun”: Running My First Ultramarathon
We are ultramarathoners! On April first, side by side with the world’s best running buddy, I accomplished a pants-shitting big goal—running my first ultramarathon. We successfully completed our first 50-mile…
Gearing Up for An Ultramarathon
In just under a month, I'll be running my first ever ultramarathon. How does one prepare for a 50-mile run? RUNNING, of course! And shoes, sound, hydration packs, fuel, etc.…
A Pants-Shitting Big Goal: Training for an Ultramarathon
New Year’s Eve has come and gone, and though many of you will have broken your big resolution by now, January is still a great time for reflecting, for getting…
100 Miles of Fun: What I learned Volunteering at an Ultramarathon
What kind of person decides to go out and run ONE HUNDRED continuous miles? I got to find out last weekend when I volunteered at the Umstead 100-Mile Endurance Run,…
My Travel Year In Review: 2023
2023, Kindly see yourself out. Y’all, I’m going to be really honest, 2023 was a hard year for me. If it was hard for you, consider yourself seen. Things didn’t…
The World Airline Road Race Takes Calgary!
For this week’s post, I’ll go back to the start of my two-week travel bender, to the 40th Annual World Airline Road Race in Calgary. It’s a city I’d never…
Surviving My First Spartan Race (Barely)
My friends somehow convinced me to do a Spartan Race. For those of you who don’t know, this means a race with running, but also with obstacles that could have…
Flying and Travel and Money, Oh My! Summer 2023 Updates
I struggled to come up with a topic for this week’s blog post. So here we are, doing updates. I don’t have something standing out in my mind. No big…
My Ultimate Camino de Santiago Packing List
It’s Camino Season! Those of you who have been following along with this blog know that last fall I trekked the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across Northern Spain…
All The Books I Loved (& Didn’t): Q1 Reading Roundup
Book recs incoming! Y’all, I have been reading up a STORM. You might guess that flight attendants are big readers. We do spend an awful lot of time on airplanes,…