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...
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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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Sometimes you have to go out and find races, and sometimes they’re dropped right in your lap. The Tessitura Network convention almost always offers a free 5K (ish) to attendees. While it’s a bit loosey-goosey by some race standards, I can never resist a free race! Perhaps these “ish” and “loosey-goosey” qualifiers sound like damning with faint praise. I...
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Even when my Tessitura Convention adventure isn’t conveniently located in Orlando, there’s always a highlight for me to look forward to: the convention 5K. It’s wildly informal and the course doesn’t always match the promised distance, but it’s also free, so who am I to complain? Okay, actually, I did have one complaint this time around. Well, not so...
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Hello and happy Global Running Day! On this macrocosmic day of running, I wish to correct a microcosmic oversight. See, my very first race was the 2013 Princess Half Marathon. I started this blog a few months later, and have faithfully recapped every race I’ve ever run since then… except for one. THAT CHANGES TODAY. Sure, I ran the...
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Oh, dear little Rabbit Run! I now feel a strange affection for this unassuming 5K race. It was as sincere as Linus’s pumpkin patch, and what it got for its efforts was a great big smack across the face from Old Man Weather. Is Old Man Weather a thing? Whatever; what I’m trying to say is RAAAAIN. Or, in...
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The Wilmington Historic Half Marathon & 5K: so nice I did it twice, twice! I’m sure that opening was just about as subtle as a hammer to the skull, but I’ll explain. You can run the Wilmington Historic 5K at 7am, or you can run the Wilmington Half Marathon at 7:45am… or you can run both! Last year I...
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Nobody was more surprised than me that I attended the 2022 Tessitura Network Convention – I went from contracted employee to full time and on a plane to the Mile High City in the blink of an eye. Was I excited to go to Denver for the first time? Yes! But was I more excited for the conference 5K?...
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Don’t cry because Coastal Race Productions’ Freedom 5K was a humid, sweaty mess; smile because it happened. For real: the weather report the day before was thunderstorms ALL DAY. The CRP website states that they handle inclement weather by delaying until it’s safe, but if it’s never safe, then what? Luckily, I have no idea, although I can add...
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