JANUARY
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Me, Chris, and our amazing crew just before leaving Barranco Camp. |
I climb
Kilimanjaro and reach the summit in the dark on 23-Jan-12. I turn 28.
FEBRUARY
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Sunny and me after the Bonk Hard Chill AR. |
Triathlon training picks back up, preparing for first Ironman in June. I race my first
adventure race as 100% navigator and we take 4th place overall.
MARCH
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Me and Andrei during the Extreme Break Up 10hr AR. |
The beginning of a beautiful AR friendship - I
race with Andrei for the first time!
APRIL
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Oof-da! |
Triathlon blinders go on big time and I focus on training for IMCdA. 450 miles on the bike. 100 miles on foot. 26 miles in the pool. Zero days off. Bring it. I also switch jobs to my
current one - at the new Mississippi River Bridge.
MAY
Race to 6th overall amateur at
Rev3 Knoxville HIM. Recover and reel off 550 miles on the bike and 118 on foot.
JUNE
|
I am a YouTube superstar. |
I am an
Ironman. Muchas gracias to my friends, my family, and my coach for all of the support! Oh yeah, I won
the bet too.
JULY
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Alpine Shop Dirt Crits. Photo by Dan Singer. |
Full-on dirt binge commences. 400 miles...on knobby tires. Trip up to Minnesota for the upset AR victory of the year...
first place in the MNOC Adventure-O with gearjunkie.com!
AUGUST
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Me, Erl, Andrei after Thunder Rolls. I never thought I would race in this jersey. So stoked. |
AR fall season kicks off with a
victory at Thunder Rolls 24hr with Erl and Andrei. Such a fun race with great teammates and competition.
SEPTEMBER
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Me and Andrei during a very rainy CPT Nationals in West Virginia. |
Andrei/Emily AR camp 2012! A
win at Bonk Hard Berryman 24hr with Biz and Erl, and then a
DNF at CPT Nationals the following weekend.
OCTOBER
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Starting another lap at Burnin. |
Consists mainly of three things:
1. Sleeping.
2. Racing
mountain bikes.
3. Drinking Wild Turkey American Honey. From the bottle.
NOVEMBER
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MAF with MK! |
I kick off 2013 prep with 30runs30days and see nice gains in my running.
DECEMBER
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Young Ben, Keith, Courtney, and me at Castlewood. |
Captain a newbie AR team and have
buckets of fun at Castlewood 8hr. Bust out a
PR at PMETR. Have lots of fun snow riding.
THOUGHTS
I've done a lot of reminiscing about 2012 in the last few days. It's weird, when I was climbing Kili or riding the IMCdA bike course, I wasn't really thinking about how big these events are. The more time passes, the more I realize that they are huge life accomplishments. And I am becoming more grateful and appreciative that I have the (physical, mental, financial, social, etc...) resources to go forth and kick ass. So that is my plan for 2013: MOAR DREAM CRUSHING. Step 1: celebrate my birthday with
the 29(mile)r.
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I am glad we met in 2012. That was a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThat was a big year! Hope your 2013 is even bigger and better!
ReplyDeleteImpressive year Emily! Way to fit all that in, and accel at it, even with more work hours.
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