by Tracey Hulick | Oct 22, 2020 | Altruistic, Directed Donation, Half Marathon, IronMan, Kidney Donor Athlete, Marathon, Other Sports, Running, Triathlon, Ultra
Come Back Ken: My road to donation may have started a little different than most but we will get there. My journey started back in May 2018 while running the Buffalo marathon. Up until this point, I was always a weekend warrior and considered myself to be a somewhat...
by Tracey Hulick | Jan 22, 2020 | Altruistic, Other Sports, Running, Ultra
For most of my adult life, I’ve been an ultradistance athlete including 100-mile trail races, 100-mile snowshoe races in Alaska, 9 Eco-Challenge Adventure races (multi-sport, multi-day), and other ultradistance events around the world. In May of 2018, I became...
by Tracey Hulick | Sep 4, 2019 | Directed Donation, Running, Ultra
Can kidney donors safely run ultramarathons? I think we can do pretty much whatever we set our minds to do! Since my donation in December of 2017, I’ve run 12 ultras, which I admit was too much. Shortly after my 1-year anniversary, I was toast. I didn’t have the...
by Tracey Hulick | Oct 17, 2018 | Cycling, Directed Donation, Other Sports, Running, Ultra
I donated a kidney to my sister Pam on December 14th, 2017. It’s been a long journey for her as she was one of the first liver transplant recipients at University Hospital in Denver in 1990. This was also the year I ran my first ultramarathon, a 35-mile trail race in...
