Dirt Diva + Kona Grrrrl = T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Yesterday I played a little hookie (shhhh!) and drove up to Sierra City to meet Dirt Diva at mile 1,200+ of her journey along the Pacific Crest Trail. It had been over 2 months since we've seen each other and that was like 69 days too long! ;)

Setting: 3 minutes after I find her at the General Store among a dozen other PCTers and locals

DD: OMG! Love that skirt.

KG: Thx. I know...I loooove it too! Look...

(pull up skirt to show off cute, short spandex with a white flower on the corner seam)

DD: No way! Look at mine.

(DD: pulls up her skirt to show off cute hot pink spandex)

DD: And I love it too because it doesn't ride up the A**)

Hiker Dude #1: I'm in heaven!

Local Boy: No shit...are they always this much fun!?!

Setting: just hopped in my car to drive to Truckee (so DD can fuel up on re-supplies)

DD: do you know how to get there?

KG: Nope. Thought we'd wing it...there's signs right?

DD: I guess. Just like being back on the PCT

KG: Do you know how far?

DD: Uh...

KG: Hope we have enough gas or else we'll be back on PCT hiking to Truckee!

Setting: local Truckee thrift shop in coed dressing rooms

DD: How those low rise pants fit, Kona?

KG: Fit great but I think I'm over the whole low-rise, show my A** and butt crack off to the world thing.

DD: yeah, but it's a cute butt

KG: Plus I don't always like to wear panties anymore...

(cough, cough -- old man outside room turns beet red)

Setting: Five minutes later upon exiting dressing room and passing old man

KG: Have a wonderful day!

Old man: Oh, indeed I will.

Two tough girls. One gorgeous Tahoe day. Countless fun, priceless times and a wallet full of happy memories.

Rock on, Dirt Diva! See you up in Canada. ;)

Alikona

Yes, I Can

I've been AWOL...stumbling this past month through injury, insult and that thing called life. But not anymore. Today I looked up at my fridge and re-discovered my personal motto that I had posted there more than two years ago:

All my life I am told the things I cannot do.

All my life they say I'm not good enough.

Or strong enough.

Or talented enough.

They say I'm the wrong height

Or the wrong weight

Or the wrong type

To play this

Or be this

Or achieve this.

They tell me NO,

A thousand times NO,

Until all the NO's become meaningless.

All my life they will tell me NO,

Quite firmly and very quickly.

But I will tell them YES!

And yes... I really can. So I'm on my way now to go be a trail runner and wanna-be mountain biker in Sierra City!

Live. Love. Smile. Play.

Namaste.

Alikona

(Pic below: Me running the Skyline 50K last August...almost exactly 2 years after a doctor told me I would never be able to run more than a few miles...yeah right! ;)