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Hellcat is home to writing and photo essays about pushing limits.
Did you cry watching Nike’s Breaking 2 documentary? Do you care deeply about social justice and the connection between civic planning and health? Do you seek out races described as “mostly runnable”? Is exploration and curiosity fundamental to your identity?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we should be friends.
Running for me has been a primary way to learn not just about my surroundings, but myself. This is, I think, one of the highest callings as a human being: To live an examined life. To leave things better than how you found them. To find the freedom that comes from discipline.
Where it all began
First launched as a training diary while I prepared to run The Speed Project—a 340 mile relay race from the Santa Monica Pier to the Las Vegas Strip. I first ran the race in 2022 with the GRIT USA team. In 2024, I recruited an all-female crew, the Feral Angels that made it to Vegas first of the OG women’s teams. The Feral Angels ran again, racing TSP CHX in 2024 with a team recruited by Nikki Trifunovic.
About the name
I did myself a lot of SEO favors unwittingly going with the same name as the discontinued Dodge Challenger. Hellcat came from thinking about the hottest place on earth and the fastest mammal on earth. Death Valley and Cheetahs. Hell and cats. Hellcat! As this project has evolved it is a nice artifact of those first few races across the Mojave.
Racing schedule & results:
2025
Tbd!!!
2024
The Speed Project Chamonix → Marseille
Catochin 50k - DNF
Southbound 400 - Hard 2 Kill, 47:15:08
The Speed Project - 1st Place All-Female OG Team, 48 hours 22 minutes
Rock n’ Roll DC Half Marathon - 1:55:11
Hellcat 50k - 2nd Place Female, 5th overall, 5:22:00
Who are you?
I work for The Bulwark in a range of capacities but serve primarily as their art director—which means I have a lot of fun designing graphics and finding images to go on stories as well as photographing events. If you see me with a camera at one of our live show recordings please say hi!
As for this newsletter and why you should care what I have to say philosophically about fitness and life, I rowed in college. I used to joke that I majored in rowing given how much it consumed my life and identity. My actual major was fine arts because I wasn’t brave enough to take poetry until my senior year. Had I rediscovered that medium sooner I would likely have been an English major and lived a different life. (And presumably my writing here would be better.) So it goes. Amor fati.
