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One week, People! One week! (picture Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover Home edition and his mighty megaphone) The Disneyland Half marathon weekend is just around the corner, and many of us will be heading to Anaheim to see all our hard work pay off. We’ve all done the training as best we could. Your training …
In 9 days I will be leaving for the Disneyland Half where I am running the Dumbo Double Dare. I have been training especially hard for this race and am OH SO excited!! Some of you reading this (you know who you are) run a half or a full marathon as part of your regular …
My Disney Bling! After yesterday’s post about failures, I started thinking through all the mistakes I’ve made over the years at RunDisney events. I’m a veteran of quite a few Disney races (8 to be exact) and although any race is a big deal, with the travel, the excitement and the amazing theme parks included …
Over on the FB page we were having a conversation today about mistakes I’ve made during races. In this case, it was that I tend to try new things too close to race day which I know is wrong but sometimes is inevitable (but don’t worry, I’ve done it plenty of times when it could …
I have been sort of compulsively racing since my first half marathon in March of 2010 when I ran the Dallas RnR Half. It was an amazing race and since it was my very first, I was filled with nerves and apprehension. I knew I had trained well (although due to a lot of ice …
I’m sitting in my dining room drinking coffee and up a whole hour earlier because I WAS going to go for a four mile run this morning but my left calf is not cooperating so I find myself with some time on my hands. I’ve been wanting to write a post about those of you …
I am writing this while the anxiety is actually happening and I feel like that will help everyone to know I’m not saying this about somebody else, writing from an inauthentic place, or regurgitating info I read in Runner’s World. One of my twins is going in for relatively minor, out-patient surgery tomorrow. But my …
There’s a moment right before every Run Disney event where I get REALLY pumped. It’s that moment when we know we are finally getting close, it’s really happening and (for some of us) it’s a reminder to get our backsides in gear and get those miles in!! (and I hope you all got my gentle …
Yesterday was 10 miler number 2 for Disneyland Half Marathon weekend! We had crazy nice weather and you can read more about how it went at the end of this post. I did love this picture (which is actually at the entrance of a local sub-division and stands for Pecan Ridge but I’ve decided it …