Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! For my final dedicated Dopey entry, I’d like to leave you with my reflections on the experience. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! All it takes to commit to runDisney’s Dopey Challenge is a credit card and a dream. All it takes to successfully complete the Dopey…
Running attracts peculiar people. As runners, we have a tendency to strive. Some call it a personal record, some a personal best, but either way you don’t actually accept that time as your best. You can always be faster. Thus the question plagues you constantly: what can I do to increase my speed and shave off seconds? Myself, I would…
After the completion of my recent Dopey Challenge, I put together a little blog post tallying my costs. I thought it might valuable to those trying to determine whether the arguable crown jewel of runDisney is right for them. As much as I wish it wasn’t, the price can be a factor as to whether one (including me) feels ready…
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 review Strong Water Tavern at Universal Aventura Hotel. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! At this point I have nearly two decades of Walt Disney World experience – but I’m still getting…
Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today I’d like to talk about the costs associated with being a Dopey Challenger. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! WDW Marathon Weekend is special to me. Although I’m not one of the diehards who register for the Dopey Challenge every year, I had an amazing time…
Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today I’ll be reviewing the character breakfast at 1900 Park Fare in Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! For our final meal of our WDW Marathon Weekend trip, we chose a character breakfast at 1900 Park Fare inside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort &…
Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today we’re discussing our celebratory post-marathon dinner at California Grill. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! A successful Dopey Challenge requires some form of commensurate celebratory meal. Were I a proper blogger, I would’ve selected a restaurant I haven’t been to before. Instead, I went with California…
Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! And just like that, my Dopey Challenge began! Race number one dawned rather chillier than we all would have liked, but the stress levels were low – trip buddies Kate and Erika were doing the WDW 5K with me, and we…
Maybe you can tell (or maybe you can’t 😬), but I’ve been really trying to improve the quality of the blog posts around here lately. That includes boosting search optimization; I watch over Google Search Console with great interest. Sure, I think my words are worth the read (I certainly generate enough of them), yet the verdict remains with the…
I did not plan for Universal’s Great Movie Escape, and it almost broke me. I kid, I kid! It’s just an escape room; it’s not that deep. But I did have to sit down in the lobby, close my eyes, and focus inward for awhile when it was over. After all that escaping, I was waaaaaay overstimulated. You might think…