Joanna

Ultramarathon
Written By Mona Angéline

Meet Joanna from Rocklin, who set a goal to finish a marathon when she turned forty. Two years later, Joanna is unstoppable. Now her goal isn’t just a marathon, but the Canyons 50k!

Joanna and I met at a Wilder Running and Writing retreat led by Lauren Fleshman, where we shared our love for the trails and experienced how powerful and transformative the connection with other runners can be.

We never stopped connecting, and now we get to work together on her road to ultrarunning. Her journey will include an upcoming trail half marathon followed by a trail marathon.

Most people come to ultrarunning from road marathons, but Joanna was wise to choose a trail race, because with an established trail background, it is really a very manageable leap to tack on another five miles for a 50k.

Joanna told me she's looking for accountability and kindness in a coach. A person who will help her get back on the wagon if she falls off. I think these are two of my specialties.

Kindness goes so much further than pressure.

Good luck Joanna! I can tell you'll do well in your journey!

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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