HEY! THIS isn’t Walt Disney World! Boo. Sad trombone. Yup, I’m back. It was a whirlwind three days and a great half marathon, and the only thing that kept me from bursting into tears on the Magical Express was the promise of the WDW Marathon in January and the Dark Side Half in April. Keep hope alive! If you’ll...
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TOMORROW. Tomorrow morning I land in Orlando and my long weekend in Walt Disney World begins! I’m not sure how well the Wine & Dine Half Marathon can be expected to go, but I haven’t run at ALL this week so hopefully my muscles have bounced back? A bit? Maybe? When I initially realized I’d be making this trip...
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I don’t know. Maybe I jinxed myself. But I can tell you exactly why I posted about my marathon PR bid during the Marine Corps Marathon last week: I thought for sure it was going to happen. Oh, no question. Hadn’t I trained better and harder? Hadn’t I carefully avoided injury? Hadn’t my 20 miler gone a million times...
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Well. The Marine Corps Marathon. It happened. Spoiler alert: I did not make a PR. 
Were, technically. I was wrong. But I tried. It’s like I skipped all the Halloween parties for NOTHING. But hey, neither did I, say, break a bone, and I did finish, so it could certainly have been much worse. I’ll be gathering up my...