Three Little Birds

"You don't need a 'WHY'. The day you were born answered that. You are ALIVE. There is only one of you. And you get ONE life to do all that is in your heart. You don't always need an explanation. You don't need people to understand. What you need is 'TO KNOW'. KNOW who you are. KNOW your life is valuable because you simply exist. KNOW that nothing is impossible ." - Sally McRae Here we are at the last 2 stages of the 6 day Transrockies Run (TRR6). If you've read all my posts about the race up to this point, you da real MVP. Haha! Stage 5 and 6 were probably the most challenging for me! By the time we toed the line at Stage 5, we'd run 74 miles in 4 days straight, and had already climbed 11,491 feet, which is a lot -- however, we had 8,509 feet of climbing to go in only 2 more days!  So our hardest days were ahead of us for sure! As you can see, I'm not feeling Stage 5... bahaha!! The pre-race briefers the night befor...

"And then the sun rises. Again. Faithfully. A NEW day is YOURS. Yesterday remains to never change. Tomorrow is not yours to touch. Only TODAY. Live all your days. The hard, the joyful, the frustrating, the rewarding, the scary, the crazy. Treat them as gifts. Precious & unique. Live all your days... Gratefully." - Sally McRae Stage 3 started us off in the town of Leadville... an old mining town that is a pretty sleepy little town that sits at 10,152' above sea level. That's where we slept the night before, on a high school baseball field... so we started out day 3 already slightly hypoxic. We had 23.8 miles (give or take, depending on your GPS) and about 2500' of climbing ahead of us. I was nervous that AM - how would my hip hold up?? I had never ran (or even walked!) that many miles in a week at that point, much less for 3+ days in a row! I was a little sore but overall the legs felt refreshed at the start. As we walked to the sta...