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Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend – Days 0 and 1 – Flying Down and the Expo
Last Tuesday evening Preston and I flew down to Orlando. We had planned on leaving for the airport shortly after I finished up at school for the day, but Monday night around 5pm we got the welcome...
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Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend – Day 4 – My First Half Marathon!
This was the day that all of the hard work, perseverance, and training I had put in was preparing me for: my first half marathon! Sit tight, because a short recap wouldn’t have done justice for this...
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Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend – Day 4 Part 2 – Celebrating My First Half...
After completing my first half marathon, Preston wanted to ensure that my first half was properly celebrated and not overshadowed by his pending completion of the Dopey Challenge the next day. We had...
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Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend – Final Thoughts and Day 6 – Fun at Magic...
One month ago today I became a half marathoner! The runner’s high I’ve been on is still going strong, and although I’ve been a little easier on myself in terms of intensity and mileage during my...
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Best Moments of 2014 Marathon Weekend
The excitement and my runner’s high from running the Disney World Half Marathon last month is still going strong. Since crossing the finish line of my first half marathon, I’ve been excitedly looking...
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Friday Five – February 21st
Yesterday’s Team #runDisney Photo a Day Challenge theme was happiness, which got me thinking about all the things that have been bringing me happiness lately. While this list is certainly not all...
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Why My Half Marathons Went As Well As They Did
I’ve been anything but quiet on here about how proud I am of myself for completing two half marathons. Just over a year ago I hadn’t started running, and now as I contemplate registering for my third,...
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14 in 2014 Update
Believe it or not, we’re almost halfway through 2014! I have several other posts planned for between now and June 30th, the halfway point of the year, but still wanted to ensure that I reflected upon...
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Friday Five – August 8th – Race Memories
Anybody that knows me well knows that I’m extremely sentimental and love taking lots of photos to capture every major event. Every month or so I love spending time looking back at old photos and...
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My Year of Running
Its incredible to look back and think about all that I’ve accomplished this year! At this time last year, I was training for my first half marathon, and now I’ve crossed the finish line of three half...
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Top 5 Posts of 2014
Surprise, its another blog post today! With having taken last week off from blogging and there being so much I still want to recap from 2014 with only three days left in the year, I decided that its...
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2014 Year in Review
Is tomorrow really New Year’s Eve? It feels like 2014 just started! Its been quite a year, with lots of accomplishments, milestones, and just like last year, lots of changes. January I kicked off...
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Memories from Marathon Weekend
Today marks the first day of Disney World Marathon Weekend. After having been at Disney World the past two years for this exciting weekend of running, I’m a bit sad that Preston and I won’t be there...
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Friday Five – Favorite Races and Medals
Its always fun to sit in our office and look up at our medal display, which we put together last fall. As I look at our medal display, I think back on many wonderful memories of incredible...
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Post Race Celebrations
Its been awhile since I’ve participated in the Tuesdays on the Run linkup (since the end of June to be exact), but when I saw this week’s theme for the linkup, I just knew I had to participate. This...
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Running Survey
Remember back in the 1990s when personal surveys went around by e-mail like wildfire? It was such a fun way to get to know more about friends. When I read the answers to a recent running survey that...
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Why Marathon Weekend Means So Much to Me
Today marks the start of Disney World Marathon Weekend. With the first day of the expo being today, followed by four consecutive days of races, its going to be quite an exciting five days at Disney...
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What the Running Community is All About
As many of you have heard by now, runDisney had to make a difficult decision last week: to cancel Saturday’s Disney World Half Marathon due to forecasted thunderstorms before and during the race. My...
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I’ve Run 50 Races!
Monday was a monumental day. Not only did I secure a new 10k PR for myself at the Ringing in Hope 10k (which I will recap once I receive my race photos), but it was also the 50th race that … Continue...
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