CHEERS AT THE FINISH LINE
as a beer person. The ultra-runner is more of a cabernet sauvignon drinker. But the beer cravings do kick in occasionally—namely, after a long day on the trail. Over the summer, for instance, Valerio competed in the Broken Arrow Skyrace, which involved running 26 kilometers nearly straight uphill in California’s Sierra Nevada, trudging “through snow and scrambling up rocks,” she says. It was a challenge that merited something cool and
