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—–> Wind River High Route

Aug, 2019 – Female, supported FKT @ 3 days, 17 hours, 20 minutes

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—–> High Sierra Camp Loop

Oct, 2019 – Overall, female, self-supported FKT @ 12 hours 22 minutes.

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@HeySarawrr

Happy birthday to @wakeofthecakes !!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳❤️❤️ Life is 200% better with youuuuu.
Más montañas próximamente. Más alegría y fuerza. Stay tuned. Beep. Boop.
#suicidepreventionmonth // I suppose I’ll start by saying that no one close in my life has taken their life, but that doesn’t mean I’m a stranger to hearing about it in close-enough circles. I also know that it has a contemplative presence in the realities of my own lineage, and in myself. Depression runs in my family, and there’s just a lot of trauma, too. I’m no stranger to grieving, as many of you know. Top this off with the fact that I’m a really sensitive person. Sure, I channel grit and immense strength when I run, but for the life of me I can’t keep myself from crying at the dentist’s office when they want to charge too much to fix a broken filling. I cry when I’m embarrassed. I cry when I fail in front of people. I truly hate this about myself, because my brain and my body become disconnected in those moments. It doesn’t matter if I understand or feel that what is happening is trivial, my body physically reacts, powerfully, without any logical permission. And then it’s a self-fulfilling cycle of embarrassment for crying, for failing to keep composure. Yes, I was raised in a psychologically toxic household. Yes, society has nurtured colonial logic in me. Yes, I have fantasized about suicide. So, I suppose my point is that, and maybe this isn’t what most people want to hear but, I get it. I can understand why someone would choose to take their life. It makes sense that suicide rates are high among indigenous peoples because of the deep impacts of genocide and colonialism. It makes sense that adult suicides are high because of our work-and-appearance obsessed, ablist, venture-capitalist society. If we want to prevent suicide, then we all need to f&cking change. No more profit over people. No more stolen land. No more white supremacy. I don’t know how else to say it. This isn’t separate from politics. This isn’t separate from climate change. This isn’t separate from corrupt, institutional religion. Suicide is in direct dialogue with what’s happening in the world and how we choose or don’t choose to take care of one another. That’s it. That’s all I’m going to say. ✊🏽
My writer self appears and disappears, and I’ve learned to let it. In Telluride, a few days before my race, I began listening to episodes of a Deepak Chopra program I never finished last year. I started thinking about the story of our lives we write over and over again. The ones we memorize and tell to even ourselves about who we are. Over elbows of time, we speak the truths we’ve nurtured the most, but I wonder…What would it mean to abandon one’s story? I think this is what running is beginning to do for me. I have this script of who I think I am or who I want to be, but when I’m in the mountains or in the desert, communing in love and in awe, it all fades. It has never just been me alone in the woods. Me, one pulse of many. My body, mere petals to the roots of my ancestry. My voice, a gift from the soils and waters of this Earth. I am learning to not feel alone. Loneliness must be a human phenomenon. I can’t imagine trees ever considering themselves as separate from their environment, comprised of an infinite number of living beings. The colonized human questions themselves into a lonely oblivion. I do all the time. Feet, lungs, pumping up mountain passes in a wash of ancient light, I feel too much sometimes, but at the core of myself, no matter the stories told or the races I run, my body smiles. My body writes. Begins again. Again. Again.
August photo dump of Ute land and leg happenings. 🙏🏽
Agosto! A big mountain month! I’m pacing Matea at the Silverton 100k, Aug 7th, then focusing on my final training for the Telluride Mountain Run 40 miler, Aug 28th. I’ll have live tracking for TMR and I’m also fundraising for @renew_earth_running. Follow the link in my bio to donate and make sure to follow @renew_earth_running to learn more about indigenous stewardship, protection, initiatives, and other fundraising opportunities taking place now. I believe whole heartedly that allowing space for indigenous knowledge, participation, and consent is critical to a healthier earth and therefore, human community as well.
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