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Monday, August 15, 2016

100 miles of love - Summer Beast of Burden 2016

Ever since about the day after I successfully completed my first 50-miler last October, the idea of attempt 100 miles has been in the back...

Monday, July 25, 2016

Night Running - Candlelight 12 hour Race Report

So I ran the Candlelight 12 hour overnight race last Saturday. This was a brand new race which sounded unique and interesting – a race wh...

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Musings on pain, speed, and energy

So – I believe it was in the Laurel Highlands race report that Pat McHenry posted not too long ago that energy and pain were not necessa...

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

100 Mile Training – the race that wasn’t, the race that was, and general update

So – here I am, 54 days out from my 100 miler. Just started hitting the heavy mileage back to back weekends a couple weeks ago with ...

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About Me

Amy Mower: I started running at age 29, after I quit a 2-pack-a-day smoking habit. I was worried about gaining weight, and so I committed to 30 minutes of regular exercise 3 days out of 4. I began running longer distances in 2008, when I joined my brother David and his wife Cindy in training for the Army 10-miler. I learned something pretty amazing - which is, to learn to run longer, you have to... run longer. Wow. What a concept. The 10 mile training was so exhilarating that I wanted to keep going, so I signed up for a February marathon. My sister-in-law had told me about the Jeff Galloway run-walk method, and I thought I might be able to finish a marathon if I followed that sort of a plan. It worked for me - and I used I to complete another 5 marathons over the next several years. I ran my first full marathon without walk breaks in June of 2014. I completed my first "ultra" marathon at CanLakes in October of 2015. Since that time I've completed 2 100'mile races, 3 24 hour's, several 12's, 48 hours at ARFTA, and most recently 72 hours at ATY. Presently I'm running 80-100 miles a week and setting my sights on more and possibly longer multi-day events.

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