Runner's World February 2014

LOCATION West Maui Forest Reserve, Maui, Hawaii PHOTOGRAPH BY Dan Galic RUNNER Renatta Geissinger THE EXPERIENCE The Waihee Ridge Trail mixes flat stretches with steep climbs for a 1,500-foot ascent through a guava thicket and lush forest. “Low-lying clouds blanketed the valley, but I was still able to catch a view of the Pacific Ocean,” Geissinger says of the five-mile out-and-back route. “It’s a beautiful, peaceful place to run.” FOR DIRECTIONS, RESOURCE INFORMATION, AND DOWNLOADABLE WALLPAPER IMAGES, VISIT RUNNERSWORLD.COM/RAVERUN.…

FRANK BURES “I’m drawn to stories of people encountering unimaginable obstacles,” Bures says. Marko Cheseto, a Kenyan runner who lost both legs after getting lost on a run in Alaskan woods (page 76), fit the bill. “When news broke that Marko was missing, it took my thoughts to East Africa, where I lived in the 1990s,” added Bures, who is fluent in Swahili. JOE PUGLIESE A photographer who specializes in portraiture, Pugliese says that as soon as he met Marko Cheseto in Alaska, “I sensed a real honesty about him. Marko is a remarkable young man with a compelling real-life story. I didn’t have to direct him—he was just being himself.” Pugliese’s photography has also been featured in ESPN and Time. VERONIQUE DE VIGUERIE While photographing Captain Kelly Calway for…

SPIRITUAL STEPS I really appreciated your feature on Team Lifeline and the Orthodox Jews who run in the New York City Marathon (“Running on Faith,” Human Race, December). I am an Orthodox Jewish psychologist who is also a mother of five children. I have always loved running, but I just recently began racing. Running has allowed me to reach new levels of growth in my profession, in my home life, and in my spiritual aspirations. When we push ourselves to exceed our limits in running, it flows into every part of our lives, and I am grateful to Runner’s World for all of your amazing tips and inspiring features. —DEBBIE GUTFREUND Waterbury, Connecticut ON A DIFFERENT STAGE “I’m a Runner: Lisette Oropesa” in the December issue was a great article!…

Last February, I was involved in a motorcycle accident. The bike washed out in a right turn and hit an oncoming SUV. My boyfriend was thrown from the bike while I was pinned between the car and the bike. I was in surgery for seven hours and spent five months in the hospital. I had multiple broken bones, a lacerated liver, and brain bleeding; my spleen and left kidney were removed; and I was on 24-hour kidney dialysis. An infection, which was rapidly taking over my body, meant my left leg had to be removed at my hip and my right one below the knee. I was given a one percent chance of survival. After I was released from rehab, my nurse sent me a magazine article. It was “Andre…

CAPTAIN KELLY CALWAY defines Army Strong. In 2006, soon after beginning her military career, she ran her first marathon on a lark, seriously undertrained, and finished in 3:10:29. The following morning, the then 22-year-old second lieutenant shouldered a 45-pound pack and marched 16 miles in the Arizona desert as part of her Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course. “When we started out, I could barely move,” she says. “I remember tripping and having to catch all that weight with my quads. It brought tears to my eyes.” But Calway didn’t—and doesn’t—give in. Physical and mental toughness are part of the Army’s creed, and the military intelligence officer, who grew up running around military bases as an Army brat, has an abundance of both. In October, Calway, now 29, won the Marine…

ART MOVEMENT At least a dozen life-size sculptures of runners midstride will be on display in downtown historic Manchester, Connecticut, from June through November. PAVEMENT PARTY Indie music label Merge Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a 25-K race in North Carolina on March 22. Several Merge artists plan to race, while others will perform live. GAME FACE Francis Lawrence, director of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, says he watched Jennifer Lawrence closely to ensure she didn’t make her selfdescribed “stupid face” when she ran. JUST DESSERTS Celeb chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay completes the Ironman World Championship in Kona in 14:04:48 and says he’ll ink the achievement with “a little Ironman tattoo.” WINNING BID One of the four gold medals won by sprinting legend Jesse Owens at…