Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Today we recap the Princess Half Marathon! Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! What’s better than your alarm sounding at 2:30am? Your alarm sounding at 2:30am two mornings in a row, of course!...
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Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Today we recap the Princess 10K! Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! As is so cruelly usual, my alarm woke me in the bleak and dark of the middle of the night. But...
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Holy smokes; I’m not even done with my Dopey Challenge trip report and it’s already time for Princess Weekend! Not that I’m complaining, mind you – this is merely an observation. So my promised Dopey takeaways and traditional snack roundup posts are just going to have to wait. I’m headed back to Walt Disney World, baby! I think we...
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Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today I’m recapping the crown jewel of the Dopey experience: The WDW Marathon. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! You know what I love? I’ll tell you what I love: the WDW Marathon. It is my One Race to Rule Them All. I haven’t skipped a...
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Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today I’ll be recapping the WDW Half Marathon. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! After two distressingly chilly race mornings, the WDW Half Marathon promised milder conditions. Even in the middle of the night we were looking at temps in the 60s. The only potential dampener*...
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Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! OUR 10K PLAN Morning two dawned successfully – it was time for the WDW 10K! Although originally planned for the 5K, some last minute shuffling meant that my costume for this race was my longstanding favorite Figment. I had wanted...
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Okay, kids. runDisney’s WDW Marathon Weekend Dopey Challenge. My plane leaves, as they say, on the morrow. Let’s do this. Do I feel really good about it? No! Although I must admit – I asked for symmetry, and I was given symmetry. During my 2015 Dopey Challenge run, I was coming off injury. For 2025, I will be… coming...
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Things I like about the Wilmington Historic Challenge: When you combine the half marathon and 5K, you get a 16 miler suitable for pre-WDW Marathon Weekend training only somebody else handles your course and water stops. It’s reasonably priced. The start/finish line is close to my parents’ house. The medals are the size of my face. A thing I...
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Today I am honored to introduce another guest race recap! My friend Andrea stroller-ran her kids through their first ever road race in her town’s Thanksgiving 5K, and she was kind enough to jot me up a post about it. Onward! Thanks Jenn for inviting me to contribute to your fun running blog! I’ve never written a blog post...
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Hello runDisney friends! I know, I know, I famously did not run the 2024 Wine & Dine Half Marathon. Luckily, someone simultaneously much cooler AND hotter than me did. Enter my cousin-in-law (that’s a real term; I checked) Kate, the only member of my family who loves Disney parks as much as I do. She recently came over to...
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