Hello and welcome to Happy Friday, an occasional series wherein I simply talk about a theme park-adjacent topic that makes me happy. Believe it or not, today’s subject is a DISASTER! – and it makes me very happy. 🙂 UNIVERSAL LOSSES I’m currently in the throes of planning a Universal Studios Florida trip! While I am habitually more of...
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You know what they say – if you don’t schedule time for maintenance, maintenance time will be scheduled for you. Sometimes the rest days sneak up… NEXT WEEK’S LONG RUN? THINK AGAIN Ain’t it always the way? I go a solid couple months of training without injury and dare to think “this is going well!” … and then immediately...
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Do you dress like a different person in Disney parks? I know I do! This is kinda embarrassing, but it’s true: I am deeply self-conscious in real life. While I do take pleasure in dressing reasonably well when I go out, I try to avoid wearing anything too eye-catching. I admire flamboyance in others, but I don’t have the...
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When I ran the Teodoro 10K, I encountered a sensory element that you may not normally associate with running: periodic clouds of perfume. Now, liberal use of perfume, cologne, and other forms of personal scent are very common in Puerto Rico. I was all ready to chalk this up to a cultural thing and let it ride. Until I...
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Hello and welcome back to Thoughts While Watching, the blog series where we watch old-to-oldish Disney media and watch with modern eyes. Sometimes we cringe; sometimes we applaud; either way it’s always interesting and edifying! We’re not going back too far in time for today’s entry – only a couple decades, in fact. Let’s take in the 1994 Walt...
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Okay, yes, I did say I had finished up my little runDisney suggestion blog post series. It’s just… I had another idea. WAIT, runDISNEY HAS VIRTUAL RACES? Believe it or not, runDisney virtual races are quite the thing! They function much the same as other virtual races you may be familiar with. runDisney sends a supply kit and instructions,...
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Here’s a hot take: overall, I think Walt Disney World’s food scene is solid. Some of it is AMAZING, some of it pretty good, some of it middling, and much is unremarkable. But on the whole, you can order anything from any restaurant and be reasonably confident it will be, at worst, acceptable. Overpriced, maybe, but fine to eat....
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While I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was the plan all along, I seem to have embarked upon something of a runDisney editorial series over the last month or two. First we discussed registration improvements, then the challenges the organization is choosing not to solve in favor of Club runDisney, and then an examination of runDisney...
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Whew! I don’t know about you guys, but after some rather heavy weeks I could use a little frothy Disney fun. And when I’m looking for a moment of zen, I turn to music. DISNEY BACKGROUND MUSIC: CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU’RE THERE Different scenarios call for different music types, of course; what I listen to when I run...
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I recently wrote a couple editorial blog posts about the inner workings of runDisney. First I claimed I had figure out how to fix runDisney race registration, and then I laid out my problem with Club runDisney. Unsurprisingly neither was met with unanimous acclaim, but both stirred up a conversation! Which is perfect, because it’s ideally what an op-ed...
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