Author: Liz Derstine
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A Trail Tour East
Hello from Flagstaff, Arizona, where the sun is a-BUN-dant! If you’re not catching my pun, I channeled my inner Coree Woltering and threw on some buns (plus a whole lot of sunscreen) for a nice long run on the Arizona Trail with my friend KT. We’re road tripping our way across the US for my move east, KT joining […]
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The Fond Days of Yesteryear
From left to right: me, Shasta Zielke, and Fionna Fallon at Duniway Track. Photo by Jason Hill My last days in Portland have been filled up with all of the things I love most here: time spent with friends, running in all my favorite places, visiting all of my local haunts. When I think of the […]
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To the Faraway, Nearby
August 19th, 2020 – Middle Carter Mountain, NH – Day 44 on Appalachian Trail The AT has been on my mind a lot lately, stemmed by a talk I just gave to Pine Cobble School about my hike. I spent some time digging through all of my photos and picking out what I thought would interest them the […]
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Someone in the Crowd: Boston Marathon ’22 Race Report
I don’t know if there are two more opposite endurance events than hiking solo for seven days and nights in the woods, to tearing down a paved course from Hopkinton to Boston for a few concentrated hours, elbow-to-elbow in a sea of runners. I never heard the starting gun since we were so far back, but […]
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Back to Before (Boston Marathon Preview)
Last Sunday, after crossing the finish line at the local Bridge to Brews 10K, I joined a throng of runners at the post-race party on the grassy waterfront park in downtown Portland. An energetic cover band was blasting some tunes, and my friends and I celebrated our completed races with commemorative plastic cups filled with beer […]
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Talladega Nights: My Thru-Hike of the Pinhoti Trail
It’s been nearly a week since completing the Pinhoti Trail, but I feel as though the journey hasn’t stopped! After a half day of rest at the Pinhoti Outdoor Center, I hopped on a flight back to Portland and dove right back into work the next morning (I’ve been helping out as a teacher aid in an […]
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Spring Breaker: Hiking the Pinhoti Trail
[Originally published Sunday, March 13th, 2022 via my newsletter] In less than a week, I’ll hop on a flight to Atlanta and embark on a new kind of journey, the kind I’ve dreamed about for some time but haven’t quite taken the leap to do. I’ve always wondered what I could do on a long […]
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Protected: The Complicated Pursuit of Happiness
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Mercury on the Run 