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On the bus before the race I found out Sunday a week before the Revel Marathon that we could sign up for the race since it had sold out.     We were on the wait list for the Revel Full Marathon in Las Vegas and I honestly had forgotten about putting my name on the list.    My boyfriend and I are doing the Comrades Ultra Marathon in South Africa in June and we had to submit a qualifying marathon time before May 2 nd .    When we found out Revel was sold out we signed up for a small marathon in Long Beach.    We really didn’t want to go out of town to race but we didn’t have any other options.    Sunday before the Revel race we got an email that we could sign up so rather than go to Long Beach we decided to sign up for the local race and stay in town.    Revel is a downhill run from the top of Mount Charleston down to North Las Vegas.    This run has a massive elevation drop of over 5,000 feet.    Wh...

I recently fell when I was running and I broke a bone in my hand.   I was one week from an ultra marathon that I had been training for.   I had fully intended to still run the marathon until I went to see the orthopedic doctor on Tuesday.   My race was Saturday and I told the doctor I didn’t want a cast so that I could run the race.   I mean I still had healthy legs and feet…..right?   He quickly brought me to reality when he said that the bone I broke in my hand was the worst bone in the body to break.   Apparently it gets very little blood flow and healing is very slow and running 12 hours was a very bad idea.   He said in fact you shouldn’t be running at all for a while.   He said if the bone The culprit who tripped me Cash! separated more I was looking at surgery, which for this injury is not very successful.   If he was trying to scare me he certainly did because my career as a massage therapist was more important to me than runni...