Today was a rest day, which means I ate everything in sight. Luckily we don’t keep much unhealthy food in the house, but we do have this: It’s SO good. Plus it was on sale at Fred’s, which makes it even better. It was a rest day because MM and I crammed a week’s worth of […]

This ran in the Anchorage Press this week. Steep Ascents Cinthia Ritchie Anchorage Press Each year at the start of the Mount Marathon Race, before the gun goes off and the madness begins, I stare up at the peak for a long and silent moment. It always looks so green and shadowed and immense, and I feel […]

Oh, what an agonizingly glorious Mount Marathon Race! Or at least that’s how I feel now, sitting on the comfy couch and stuffing my face with pretzels. Twenty-four hours ago as I was struggling up the mountain, I felt quite a bit differently. The Mount Marathon Race takes place down in Seward, my old stomping ground. It’s […]