Yes, I am a RAT champion! RAT is short for Ride and Tie, my favorite new sport combining trail running and horseback riding! This is a fun group of slightly crazy athletes that find it invigorating to race down a rocky hillside trying to avoid being trampled by the hordes of race brain crazy equines pounding down the same trail. [more]
Amy and I shrug into our water hydration packs and set off down the dirt road, having just dropped our children off at school. We meet every Wednesday morning to run together, sharing our joys and heartaches as we run alongside the gentle Pacolet river as it gurgles beneath birches, maples, tulip poplar and oak trees. This morning a cool [more]
“Can you help me? I’m lost and can’t find my mom.” A brave but anxious teenage girl needs my help as I pound down the grassy turf on my blue eyed paint Leo. We are competing in the 25 mileBroxton Bridge Plantation endurance race. Perhaps 5 miles in I am in second place when I come upon her, her [more]