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Afternoon Trail Run

What an adventure! When Amy DeMarco  and Justin DeMurias  told me about their plan around Tammany 10 to do an out & back of Devil’s Path in the Catskills and invited us (one of the toughest trails on the east coast) Josh Walker and I immediately said we were in! There had been no women who have registered completing the out and back and that became our goal, to log a women’s FKT in any fashion. Quickly, we assembled even more people that wanted to join ( Daniel Hauck, Justin Lewandowski, cali janulis ) and so we had 7 of the top 10 Tammany finishers ready to take on DP!                          

I’m so grateful for meeting and doing this adventure with Cali and Amy, they are such amazing humans and athletes. Running with fit men all the time I sometimes feel slow, I can never quite keep up (or if I am my heart rate is so high!). Running with these women has taught me so much already and there is a camaraderie between us and a friendship I won’t ever take for granted. Amy telling me “I go where you go, we stick together” all day and the two of us checking in on another throughout our journey. Our constant fun conversations kept me in high spirits! I’ve never met someone so kind, caring, and amazing as Amy. She planned this trip, took care of all of us, and crushed those mountains. I feel so fortunate to have a trail sister in her and in Cali ♥️ so unbelievably proud of all of us and what we accomplished and can’t believe what we did! Thank you to Justin D, Justin L, Josh, and Dan, you guys were incredible, so much fun throughout the whole trip and I appreciate you all more than words can express 💜 

We started at 2:30am and moved quickly throughout the morning. The weather was perfect all day - just until the end). Moving through the woods with a large group of people at varying paces can be difficult and bit daunting but everyone was so supportive and in a great mood all day! We saw Angela Legg Carter in the middle of the trail and again at the turnaround and she brought her usual amazing energy and positivity 💜. We stopped at our dropped car to resupply at the 1/4 & 3/4 mark and picked up Cali at the 1/2 way mark (who is absolutely incredible and brought music and the best energy! I know it was hard for Cali to decide to only join for the final half, but with her other crazy adventures coming up, it was the smart but very hard decision). On the final ridge darkness and intense winds came and made the last descent a little slippery. We ended up off course and missed our left turn so ran a couple extra bonus miles out of the way at the end (Cali motivating us to the finish and keeping spirits high), and despite having to turn around and go back up hill we rallied and finished strong. It was such an awesome inspiring day to be around so many mountain crushers. For many of us it was our biggest day and biggest vert day in the mountains. No one bonked, we all fueled well!

We are already planning our next adventure 😈 ⛰️

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