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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 8
After a disappointing week 7, the past week of my training more than made up for it! Not only did I reach a new PDR (personal distance record), but my weekly mileage total is starting to rapidly climb...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 9
Its hard believe that I’m already nine weeks into my half marathon training and that this week I’ll hit the halfway point of my 19 week training plan! Like the past couple of weeks, life has been...
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Halfway to Donald!
This week marks the halfway point of my half marathon training. Its hard to believe that I only started running back in March, and that it was only two months ago that I started training for the...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 10
Its official – I have made it to the halfway point of my training! Ten weeks ago I had no idea how I’d been feeling, or what I’d be thinking, at this point in terms of my ability to run … Continue...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 11
Coming off of the high of my week 10 training, week 11 proved to be extremely trying. I credit this struggle entirely to running the Veteran’s Day 5K (recap still to come) the day after pushing myself...
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50 Days To Go!
I can’t believe how quickly time is passing by! It feels like just last week that I was 100 days out from running my first half marathon! And in the coming 50 days, there are many activities on the...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 12
This past week more than any other week of training was about trying to balance my training schedule against a busy life calendar. Fortunately, I realized last week that it would be beneficial for me...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 13
I’m beyond happy with all that I accomplished during this past week of training! Not only did I successfully stay on track with my training during Thanksgiving, but I also completed my first double...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 14
This week has been a roller coaster. I started the week off on a high after last week’s many accomplishments – my first 10 miler, running and walking a complete half marathon in one day, and reaching...
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30 Day Countdown
As each day passes, its surreal to think that I’m getting closer and closer to Marathon weekend. What’s even more surreal is that today marks only 30 days until the big day – 30 days until I complete...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 15
After feeling run down during much of week 14, I knew that I wanted to play it a bit safer during this past week of training. Since I had an 11.5 mile run planned for over the weekend, I only …...
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Looking Ahead to the Courses
Last week runDisney released the course maps for Marathon weekend. The maps I was most excited to see are for the half marathon and 10k, but since Preston is doing the Dopey Challenge we also took a...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 16
Wow, what a week this has been! This time of year is always extra busy. On top of all the Christmas festivities, this week was also my last week of intense training before I start to taper for my...
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Let The Taper Begin!
With the big race only 18 days away (15 days until Marathon weekend kicks off with Day 1 of the Expo), its officially time to start tapering! Its still hasn’t sunk in yet that I ran 13.1 miles on...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 17
This past week was very uneventful as far as my training was concerned. After my longest run to date (13.1 miles) at the end of last week, I was quite sore and spent much of the first half of the …...
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14 in 2014
Happy New Year! Around the world, today is historically the day that people resolve to commit to resolutions. However, I am a huge believer in goals, not resolutions, and that you don’t need to...
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Walt Disney World Half Marathon Training Log – Week 18
What a week! My last full week of half marathon training was full of lots of excitement, mainly with events going on outside of my training. Good thing I’m currently tapering otherwise I’m not sure I...
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My First Half Marathon Is Finally Here!
Its hard to believe that back in March I made the decision to run my first half marathon. Preston was originally planning to run the Goofy Challenge, but when the Dopey Challenge was introduced in...
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I’m A Half Marathoner!
I did it! On Saturday morning I completed the goal I’ve had my sights on since last March – I ran my first half marathon! My time down here at Disney World has been an incredible experience, and I’m...
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What’s Next?
With each day that passes, its slowly sinking in more and more that I ran my first half marathon on Saturday. I’m slowly digesting all that I experienced while at Disney World, and am working on...
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