Krista's Top Ten List of What Not To Wear While Running
WARNING: Hanging booty I'm pretty sure I broke a running fashion rule the other week. It's probably the first rule of running fashion. Running Fashion Rule #1.Never run with your ass cheeks hanging out...
View ArticleFinding Chocolate in My Pants - A Body Butter Inspiration
Uh. Whaaa?So the other day I was changing to get ready to go to the gym and as I was climbing out of my jeans and panties (I like to take both off in one full swoop for efficiency) I found a large...
View ArticleWha? You Found Me With That? And another Top 10 List...
Never run when carrying anythinghelium inflated and shaped like a penis. I like to look at my online traffic stats from time to time. It's nerdy entertainment and since I'm like 95% weinerdog it...
View ArticleBehind The Thick Red Curtain - The Fate Of My Blog
Possible blog censorship. Like my McRibs?WOW. I take a three month (ok that could have been more than three) writing hiatus and come back to my blog to see that the world is not round but flat and that...
View ArticleThe Year of the Sulk and Mope
Taking a break from life to host a "Chill Lounge" at Way Too Cool 50k Oh man. It seems life has taken me for a ride lately and I'm just getting off to run back in line. I've neglected my writing in...
View ArticleSingleTrack Running's Badwater Salton Sea Ultra
Salton Sea - Below sea level So I guess once you embrace the sulk and the mope over adventures thwarted something magical happens. Adventures appear out of nowhere. Shit just starts to happen. And I...
View ArticleThe Party Culture of Born to Run Ultras
The golden hills of East Creek RanchExactly two weeks after the Swagon was unloaded from Badwater Salton Sea 2015, it was cram packed again with an inflatable sofa, a camp kitchen/tiki bar, disco...
View ArticleMy Life as a Grand Experiment
I like to think I survived one of life's unexpected emotional tsunamis. But, instead of holding my breath and waiting for it, I picked up a surfboard and rode that mother fucker into shore. In fact,...
View ArticleAnd For My Next Trick...
Attempting to roll out during Pine To Palm 100 miler So despite the fact that I have unfiltered tendencies to overshare, I have not included the Radical Honesty Movement in my life's grand...
View ArticleHow I Did 50 Miles on Strength and No Running - For Science
Headlands 50 Miler Race Start (Photo courtesy Seth Kotelnicki)Despite now knowing what it's like to run 50 miles on a trail of hot pokers, I also know what it's like to run 50 miles on pure strength...
View ArticleWhat's New, Stupid Foot?
Can I borrow her foot, please?It looks fast. It's been over a month since I finished that 50 miler and it still feels like there's a piece of gravel embedded deep in my forefoot.I've decided I would...
View ArticleThose Last Miles - The Transformation
Rio Del Lago 100 - Horseshoe Bar Aid StationMile 87 I was recently volunteering at The Rio Del Lago 100 Miler and everything was business. A wave of runners had come through our aid station and every...
View ArticleRising From the Ashes of the Undead
Sometimes when life feels hard I dial back to something more simple. Spent a lot of my childhood snuggled up next to this wood stove. When the cold is unbearable it gives me warmth and hope.I pretty...
View ArticleThe Adventure Stoke Commences
Getting my writing mojo back in the peace of the treesI am reinventing myself again.About a month ago I began to feel a sense of freedom that I haven't felt in a long time. A REAL long time. I had an...
View ArticleLeadville Love
Climbing and getting "Off-Trail" on Hope Pass, COWell, "HELLO" Colorado! There's something about being REALLY high that makes me REALLY happy and I'm not talking time warping, catatonic, zombie-like...
View ArticleLiving Sinking In
Sawtooth CanyonSummer is almost gone. It's been one year since I left the life I knew. In fact, I celebrated my Independence Day last week at a blues club downtown. It was a sorta "date night" with...
View ArticleUncovering my past and healing my shit
Pre Night Stalker circa 1972 / Post(?) Night Stalker circa 1978Is this mic on? Can you hear me?It may have been nearly a year since the last time I posted in this blog, but that doesn't mean I haven't...
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©Copyright manaemediaIt's dark and all I see are steps below me.Railings protect me from falling deep into the cold earth. Each step is deliberate. A meditation that takes me deeper into the internal....
View ArticlePulling Back the Curtain
I've been spending the last couple years trimming the frayed edges. I've had to mend a few holes and there's still parts of this beautiful tapestry that is me, that are thin, worn out, and barely...
View ArticleShifting
The car I bought when I was eighteen was cheap, used, and manual transmission. It was the only vehicle I could afford that would drive my ass to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend university. It was...
View ArticleDiscovering Awareness
The Majestic Madrone - My favorite tree from childhoodLife has been chaotic to say the least. I just moved my mom into a new memory care facility, I'm currently engaged in actively filling out divorce...
View ArticleThis Transforming Shitty Life is All Good
At the top of the highest peak in the contiguous United States at 14,505ft. There are days when I'm inspired to write and there are the days when I HAVE to write. I'm not talking about the "have to...
View ArticleTime Travel
I taught myself how to lucid dream around the age of ten years old. I would often sneak into my brother's room to steal his Omni science magazines and then devour them secretly in my own bedroom. There...
View ArticleI'm Dead.
"Why waste my time here on this planet barely scratching the surface of the human experience?"So you may already know... I'm dead. Well, not in the literal sense of the word but in an ephemeral...
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Lost Coast Backpacking Trip 2021Reflections are fascinating. And so beautiful.It's a random Tuesday morning and despite having ignored this blog for years something in my head told me to come back and...
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