I don’t usually post on a weekend, but when I do, it’s for a special occasion: this very blog, The Fairest Run of All, the one you’re reading right now, is ten years old TODAY. Happy anniversary! I started writing it because I loved Disney parks, and I had recently discovered a love of running too. Ten years in,...
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I am not a run streak girl.* Not historically. So far, I want to say my run streak record is… six days in a row? I’ve definitely done that on vacation. * In case you are a Disney person but not a running person, a run streak means that you run a bunch of days consecutively. You don’t have...
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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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Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! This would be the world’s worst trip report entry – leaving day, no parks – except I managed to make it just a teensy bit magical… with more running. Yay! As mentioned...
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Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! Did I get tons of sleep the night before the Toy Story 10 Miler? No, I did not. But I did not get no sleep, so already this race had one up...
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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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Okay, so you know that against my better judgment, I signed up for the Two Course Challenge last week. And you know I ran every runDisney race weekend last year, thanks to my COVID-era race registration strategy. You probably also know that all this racing is not conducive to saving money, something I was kinda hoping to do this...
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Dangit, runDisney, you got me again! Despite my self-avowed wariness of challenges (which I have admittedly reneged on a lot), and despite my desire to save a little money for other things, runDisney just had to do it to me: for 2023, the Two Course Challenge is themed to FIGMENT. Figment!! I love Figment!!!!! Which is how, stupidly, I...
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Remember my classical music running playlist? I had a great time putting that together – fresh music can be so clutch to combat training burnout, so it’s awesome to tap into a different genre from the norm. With that in mind, I’m doing it again, but this time we’re working in a new niche: the old school Hollywood musical....
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A few weeks ago, I posed a question – did my racing reach exceed my running grasp? Could I race two PRs in as many weekends? The answers, we come to find out, are: 1. Yes. 2. No. Drat. THE BEST LAID RACE PLANS Run Oak Island Half? A comedy of errors. As for the Wilmington Marathon? More generalized...
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