This is quite likely to be the hardest race I do. I'm going to do everything in my power to MAKE it the hardest - and most complete - race I've done yet. And after 2018 Race Across Oregon, I'm going to have to work my ass off to deliver in the "most complete" department.

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It's also going to be a film project. That's a little crazy, and a little extra pressure, but in a year when Free Solo makes the Academy Awards, I don't think I have to turn away from the possibility that a camera crew could impact my race. I've got my reasons....when the No Mans' Land Film Festival came to Arcata last year, I was excited to see "all kinds of women" doing "all kinds of adventure sports". And - I didn't, exactly. At least, I didn't see any women anywhere near my age actually out there doing stuff. And I got kinda mad. And then I reflected - women my age are the last (hopefully) generation who were told, from an early age, that they don't have much to offer the world of sport - so likely no one thought that their story was good enough.

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My story - dammit - is good enough. I am going to be the first woman to finish the 1000-mile No Country for Old Men. And I'm going to make a (short) film, and submit it to No Mans' Land Film Festival.  It's going to be a helluva race, and an even better story. 

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