Dirt in your skirt blog

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Posted on February 26, 2013 by Ambassador Valerie
On February 9th, I had the opportunity to be part of an amazing and inspiring event to join Michael Mills as he took on Stone Mountain. His goal was to make his way to the top of the mountain to raise money for Bert’s Big Adventure. The challenge being that......
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Posted on February 25, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
The race is over, a few emotional interviews have been taped by the winners and those who failed in their attempt to conquer Survival Run and the Fuego y Agua 100K, 50K, and 25K it seemed to all that this race was closed and in the books. However, we were......
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Posted on February 20, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
After my race was over there were still many that had a lot of racing ahead of them. The next bamboo challenge was a climb up a tree to retrieve another wrist band, once retrieving that one they pulled the pole up the tree connected it to another tree, traversed......
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Posted on February 20, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
As I ran down the trail solo, said hello to more locals, at one point I reached a gate not knowing if I had gone off course or not I ran back, found a farmer and he thankfully confirmed I had been going the right way. I turned around and......
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Posted on February 20, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
The alarm goes off  at 3:00am after a mostly sleepless night in my room. My bag was packed, I pulled on my race kit and it was off to the start line for the 3:30am checkin for the inaugural Fuego y Agua Survival Run on the island of Ometepe, Nicaragua.......