205 miles + 35,000’ elevation gain ✅ I did it! I beat the #Tahoe200 !! 😱 After 3 years of training for this race (first signed up 2019), seeing it cancelled twice from Covid + wildfires, myself getting Covid TWICE in the last 6 months, multiple crew + travel changes, I can’t believe it finally happened, and I did it! We did it!! 😭🎉 Finished in a time of 90:23:21 🤯 For me, this was 2 separate races, 2 totally different memories, and I can barely remember them as one now. The first 50 miles were sunny shorts weather, friendly chats w/other runners, no issues, done in 15 hrs. The last 150 took me another 75 hrs, thru hail, wind, snow, freezing temps, a bear(!!), mostly w/out sight of other ppl, and felt more like a test of outdoor wilderness skills, willpower, and managing the body & mind. Out of 240 runners, over 100 DNF’d 😮 My hardest challenges - sleep deprivation + GI issues for over half the race: Nausea 🤢 miles 50-65, 💩 100-190 (the last 10 miles were a dream 😍). And to top it off, my body decided to surprise treat me with an early period🩸 at mile 135 (isn’t stress supposed to delay it?! 😭🤷‍♀️). “Fun” side note - when I reached the next aid station in bloody shorts I asked the medical volunteer if they had any pads. No, of course not... so they gave me a huge bag of gauze to figure it out. Sad, but much much better than nothing... 🙏 I consider myself a super logical practical person (coder here) so I also can’t believe I actually “hallucinated” 😳 Pine cones on the ground were shrimp tempura 🍤 and I had whole conversations w/my pacers in my head... Feet super swollen + blistered. Face swollen. Hands bloody + swollen. But I made it to the finish.... 😭 Thanks to crew+pacers @ewenku @cyn_chiu @hearyimroar , Andy. I would not have been able to finish this without you all 🙏 And Shannon who surprised as extra crew! SOO proud of this all girl team 💪💁‍♀️🙏 Thanks to @run_n_shoot for coaching me to the start line. We’ve proven that it’s possible to live + train in NYC and participate successfully in a high altitude (6-9k’) mountain 200miler. I am not the same runner as I was 3 years ago thanks to your help 🙏🙏🙏 Will post more soon!!