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At The Expo – Craziness but then this happened . . (this ended up being part one of four. Here are the links to part two, part three and part four) I quite literally just walked in the door. I have the stinkiest laundry EVER and have so much to do it’s ridiculous but wanted …
The training is done and it’s time to pack!! I don’t have a lot of time tonight and have NO BUSINESS blogging. It was the first day of school, I’ve been up since way too early and I really need to get to bed but I started pulling my stuff out and thought I’d just …
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 …