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July 6, 2026

Our First Anniversary (Didn’t Go According To Plan)

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Last weekend, Mike and I hit our one year anniversary! With how ridiculously quickly we got engaged, I feel like some people probably thought we wouldn’t even make it this far 😂 But far from the honeymoon phase being over, we have somehow fallen even more in love with each other than ever before. I have always said that my goal in life is to make each day better than the last, and while there have certainly been rough days here and there, I think on the whole, that’s been true of our relationship – it just keeps getting better […]

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August 21, 2022

Race Report: Flyin’ Fast 5K

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Laura finishing Flying Fast 5K

On Friday, I flew from Denver to Albany, New York – combining a week of workshops in NYC with an opportunity to visit my family in Saratoga. But while I was there, I also decided I wanted to try to finally go sub-20 in the 5K, and I found just the race in which to do it: the Flyin’ Fast 5K, a very tiny no-frills race organized by a local running coach who wanted to give his athletes the opportunity to test their fitness before diving into fall training. It was planned to be a flat point-to-point course with no

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July 2, 2022

Cultivating Caring

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The last year has been rough. Burnout, depression, a massive wildfire, heartbreak, and the incredibly awful IVF experience that I still feel has ruined my life. I’ve been trying to come back from all of that, but for so much in life, I’m finding myself just not caring. There really hasn’t been much keeping me going; I’m just focused on getting through each day without any end in sight. I was catching up on email this morning, and finally got to read Emily Halnon’s July 2021 post, From the PCT to the Siskiyou Out Back. Emily describes going into the race

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June 30, 2022

Race Recap: Reunion 5K

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Earlier this month, I headed to Ithaca, NY for my fifteen year Cornell reunion. I cannot believe I have been out of college for fifteen years already! My five year Reunion was a ton of drinking. Makes sense… we were in our 20s. My ten year Reunion, though, surprised me by also being a lot of drinking. (Though that year, I at least made it to the Saturday morning Reunion 5K, whereas I woke up still drunk and skipped it at the 5 year.) This year, I figured that most people would be at Reunion with spouses and kids in

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March 23, 2022

Final Hurrah of the Skison: Steamboat, Bluebird Backcountry, and Avalanche Preparedness

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This weekend, I headed out to the mountains – but not to the Vail Valley. Instead, my boyfriend and I headed out to the Steamboat Springs area, where we spent Friday skiing Steamboat resort, and Saturday and Sunday trying out backcountry skinning / skiing… and taking an avalanche preparedness course (AIARE1). Friday at Steamboat was awesome. By the time we dropped Sadie off at “doggie camp” (her amazing boarding facility) and made the beautiful drive out to Steamboat, we didn’t get on the mountain until about 10:30am. I was a little bummed we were so late, since we were having to

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