Well Folks, I gave it my all at the Leadville 100-Mile "Race Across the Sky" this year ~ I made it 60 miles!
I was late for the cutoff time, so did not go on.

My team was beyond incredible - and the support from all of you has been overwhelming.

My goal and belief had been to be stronger and able to gather more miles for your pledges ~ I also was humbled and learned a great deal about perseverence. This leaves me even more in awe of little Rory's strengths.

Thank You with all my heart for your pledge per mile. Please click on the link to the right to donate your pledge x 60.
Or if you prefer other arrangements, please send me an email at: spiritrunning@gmail.com


Rory is my beautiful 2-year-old niece and god-daughter who was diagnosed with a rare form of late-stage, high-risk cancer on February 24th this year. She is a little fighter with a mighty spirit, brave through countless procedures, chemo treatments, therapies, and surgeries.

Rory is now walking with the help of her parents, a foot brace, and PT every day. I am so proud of her!

I commit! I won't quit! I am going to continue to work hard, hard and get as strong as i can to keep up with her. Way to set the bar up there, Rory!!


"I'm a little bit proud of myself" -Rory Petri

" Dig Deep" - mining slogan used for ultra events

"You are more than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can" -Ken Chlouber, race founder.


Monday, May 7, 2012

Sweet Rory finished her 4th round of Chemo this last week, after worries that there might be a setback- this amazing little goddess got her counts up, went in for round 4.  She now has a new friend on one of the hospital floors' fishtanks - it is an eel; a female eel name Eel.  Love it.  The treatment went well, so she got to home home a day early on Sunday.  Way to Go, Rory!!!
I am doing well, feet strengthening into my newer lighter trail shoes.  I did a "back-to-back" 13 miles on the dirt flats of Boulder, with a 13 mile undulating trail run at a higher altitude on the Sourdough Trail from Brainard Lake this weekend.  There were a few patches of snow to run over, and many live trees lying over the trail at various heights that had been downed form 100-mile winds days before.  So i had some under and over maneuvering - fun!!  Of course, i look at the metaphor for Rory's hurdles, and boy do i have it easy.
Also, i'm focusing on nutrition and dropping some weight to give my feet a break and get faster, too!

I am working on setting a goal amount for my pledge-gathering.
We are up to $1100 in donations, and $300 in pledges when i finish the full 100 miles!  Thanks for the inspiration, Rory! 
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