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Lots of you have been following Susan Lacke since she started writing posts for No Meat Athlete earlier this year. Ten days ago, she completed her first Ironman triathlon, less than a year and a half after losing 70 pounds on a vegetarian diet allowed her to run her first 5K. Here's her recap of…
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Granted, there's a reason it's not called the North Face Endurance Fun Run. Ninety-degree heat, extreme humidity, and three mile-long passes along a cliff so rocky it required more tiptoeing than running helped to ensure that my first 50-miler, part of the North Face Endurance Challenge, lived up to the name. Let me tell you:…
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Warning: This is a race recap so it's a little long, as they tend to be. If you're not into reading, just watch the video I made. Warmth. If I were to sum up in one word my experience at the HAT 50K on Saturday, that would be it. Nothing could be more diametrically opposed…
![[Erin shakin' Amazing Grass photo]](http://www.nomeatathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/meals-0031-150x150.jpg "[Erin shakin' Amazing Grass photo]")
I did it! I finished the Bel Air Town Run today in 19:16, well under my goal time of 19:59. 49th place overall, just like last weekend (weird huh?). This is a 6:13 per-mile pace. A few months ago, before I got injured and before I stopped eating meat, I ran three miles at 6:30…
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I said I'd be ecstatic, and I am. Ecstatic, and really tired. I amazed myself today. It's not that I thought I couldn't run a half marathon in under 1:35– I knew that I could do that on a flat course. But as we drove up a two-mile long hill in the middle of the…
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