Hello and welcome to my 2026 WDW Marathon Weekend trip report! You can see all the posts in this report here. Today we’ll be recapping the Walt Disney World Marathon. Onward! Okay, yes, the 2026 WDW Marathon was far and away the WORST of my eleven outings in this race. But I’m still deeply grateful for it, because I finished…...
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Hello and welcome to my 2026 WDW Marathon Weekend trip report! You can see all the posts in this report here. Today we’ll be recapping the Walt Disney World Half Marathon. Onward! After the cooler conditions of 2025, the morning of the WDW Half Marathon dawned with the promise of warm temperatures. Perhaps too warm, but at least with...
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I strongly prefer for someone else to manage my long training runs. Why should I figure out my course and my water stops when I can have it done for me? Which is why, for the fifth year in a row, I found myself at the Wilmington Historic Challenge, a...
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Hey, you know how last week I said there are more reasons to run a marathon than just for time? Well, I decided to run the fiftieth annual Marine Corps Marathon for the mile markers. AN ALTERNATIVE MARATHON GOAL Thanks to recurrent minor injuries, I wasn’t quite able to knock out the training cycle I might have otherwise liked...
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Editor’s note: after a triumphant recap of the 2024 Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend, Kate is back with another guest race recap! She’ll be walking us through something I have never done: the Castaway Cay 5K. Take it away, Kate! As a guest blogger for Fairest Run of All, I am here to give you a recap my...
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We interrupt this trip report to bring you a recap of the Run Sunset Beach Half Marathon! Now and again my parents ask me to come to North Carolina to pet sit for them. While taking care of animals if of course its own reward, I can’t help but also sneak in a race when I’m in town and...
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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 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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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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