![]() “The sun goes down and the sun comes up…and you’re still running.”Įpic Challenge The idea of running 50 or 100 miles in one fell swoop is slowly shedding its freak show persona. ![]() “There’s something eerily romantic about running all night,” said Kovach, who is the founder of St. Most recently, she completed the notorious Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, the world’s oldest 100-mile race - and one of the toughest. ![]() ![]() Within a year, she signed up for her first 50-mile race, then a 100-mile. The race covered more than 30 miles of mud and melted snow in a series of 6-mile loops. That was something that turned me off on a personal level.”Īt the invitation of some friends in the ultrarunning community, she entered the Frozen Gnome 50K in Crystal Lake, Illinois. I was always chasing minutes and seconds. “And that was it for me,” she said of marathoning. That same year, she completed two half marathons and a full marathon. She quit her job and, to give herself some space from the chaos of being a mom - she and her husband, Brad, the editor/publisher of Terrain magazine, have three kids - started running. “I just got to a point where I started questioning who I wanted to be and where, in five years, this path was going to take me,” Kovach said. The conversation catalyzed an objective examination of her world - a “whole world of Prada and Gucci,” as she put it - and made her realize that perhaps she was chasing a dream she didn’t really want. Kovach, who had made a career in fashion design and merchandising, was working with one of her biggest accounts when she overheard a woman complaining about the results of a recent eyelift. Reprinted with permission from terrain magazineįour years ago, Shalini Kovach experienced a proverbial ah-ha moment. ![]()
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