Articles by Deborah Paquin

Running 100 Miles or Childbirth? One Woman’s View

It started off like any normal training run: meet at the trailhead and warm up, with the usual chit-chat. As we began, one of the guys asked his buddy, “Hey, Matt, how’d your 100-miler go?” Exuberant, he proudly excla...

Baseball vs. Football, Trail vs. Road

I was at the Enviro-Sports Napa Valley Trail Marathon one rainy day as Dave Horning, the colorful race director, got into his usual hilarious pre-race talk. “If you were looking for the Napa Valley Road Marathon, y...