Running Addiction

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Running Across The Years - my first 72

72 hours. Is a long time. I originally planned to do my first 72 hour “multi-day” race at the 3 Days at the Fair event in May. After ...

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Candlelight 12 Hour 2017 - 12 Hours of Kicking Grass

Why do I do this” I asked myself on Saturday morning when I got up. I had a 6 hour drive ahead of me, to Rochester NY to run a 12 hour ni...

Monday, May 15, 2017

Dawn to Dusk to Dawn 24 Hr

I wasn’t originally supposed to run this race at all. Last December I signed up 3 Days at the Fair, scheduled for 5/19 through 5/21, whi...

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Up and Down and Up again... A Winter's tale

It is approaching Spring (sort of), and I realized I've had many run experiences and haven't written about any of them. That is lar...

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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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