Hello and welcome to my 2026 Princess Half Marathon Weekend coverage! Today we’ll be discussing the Princess 10K. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! True story: I was 90% convinced the 2026 Princess 10K was going to be cancelled. WAIT, WHY WOULD THE PRINCESS 10K BE CANCELLED? Not out of nowhere! The weather report was dicey...
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While I was running the 50th annual Marine Corps Marathon, Kate was tackling Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend. She was kind enough to jot up a race recap and trip report guest blog for me. Take it away, Kate! Well, it’s me, Kate, back again as a guest blogger for Fairest Run Of All, bringing you my report...
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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 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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I’ve been getting a lot of traffic on my 2024 Marine Corps Marathon race recap over the last couple weeks. Is it because of the sparkling wit and personality that weaves its way into every word I type? Possibly! But more probably it’s the title, which, to refresh your memory, was “How Slow Can I Go? Marine Corps Marathon...
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No, of course there’s nothing wrong with Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend! It is a worthy entry in the runDisney race weekend pantheon, no worse than any other and arguably – by some metrics – better. And yet… once upon a time Wine & Dine was gloriously unique. I was there when the deeper magic was written, and...
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Okay, “no love” is a bit of an exaggeration – but there’s no denying that Springtime Surprise Weekend is by far the least popular of all the runDisney race weekend offerings. And I want to figure out why! IN THEORY, SPRINGTIME SURPRISE SHOULD BE A SLAM DUNK Springtime Surprise Weekend is runDisney’s only race weekend offering the ten miler...
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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...
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