Author: ted
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Jan 3 2018 – Travel day and race kit pickup for Walt Disney World Marathon and Dopey Challenge
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Hi folks! We are back from our extended Disney World stay following the Walt Disney World Marathon and I am going to start on my race / trip report. Our first day started way early getting the kids up before 2:30 am – I think I got about an hour sleep but at least…
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Fighting Cancer and now the 10K at Walt Disney World Marathon – Bindu Panapalli’s inspiring story!
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Today is the third in my series of inspirational stories shared by Cigna. Today’s is the story of Bindu Panapali, her fight with cancer and her hard work with Achilles International leading up to running the 10k at Disney World in January! Cigna is the primary sponsor of the Walt Disney World Marathon event in…
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Sonya Hazel – car accident left her with a serious break but now she is recovering and is out to run the Walt Disney World 5k!
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Hi All! Just wanted to put up another inspirational article shared by Cigna. Cigna is the primary sponsor of the Walt Disney World Marathon event in January and they have invited me to take part in a Blogger / Social Media Meet Up over the weekend. I am super excited about that! The article today…
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Asthma can’t keep this accomplished runner and former preemie from achieving her dreams.
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Hi Folks! Something a bit different for me today – I am going to share an inspirational piece courtesy of Cigna! Cigna is the primary sponsor of the Walt Disney World Marathon event in January and they have invited me to take part in a Blogger / Social Media Meet Up over the weekend. I…
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Running Road Blocks
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Hi Folks! As I mentioned in my last post, I have been invited to participate in Cigna’s Blogger and Social Media Meet-up (super excited!) and as part of that they have passed along a bunch of inspirational stories and infographics that I can share. So I will do a series of posts using this info…
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2 week out update for Dopey Challenge #2
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Ok – I am back – it’s been busy the past few weeks so I haven’t been doing the blogging I want to do but today marks 2 weeks out from our travel day to the Disney World Marathon weekend and my 2nd Dopey Challenge (7th Goofy? wow…) and I figured I should find some…
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7 week short update!
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Ok… a short couple mile walk on the treadmill tonight. Strangely that is a win for the day. Over the past couple weeks I have been slowly getting better mentally for my running. I have had some decent runs and I have been slowly increasing my mileage again. Still not where I need to be…
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Wednesday is 10 weeks until Dopey Challenge travel day!
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So on Wednesday it makes it 10 weeks until Dopey Challenge travel day. I will also be going to a funeral that day. I think that makes it time to ponder and evaluate. For the past couple weeks I have been improving on my running – getting more than one run in a week at…
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OK – got the site back up…maybe I should write something? Status report
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Alrighty – the site is back up and running after some issues with the hosting…so maybe I should actually use the site? Brief synopsis: Where do I stand running wise? Not good – I feel like I am pretty much back at square one. I did a decent 5 mile run tonight so it…
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Trying something new – YouTube video talking about my plans to get my diet, weight and running back on track.
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Hi everyone! Just a short post today to provide a link to a YouTube video I have put up talking about my thoughts and plans to get my weight back under control as well as my thoughts for upcoming races. https://youtu.be/tZe1TThGn5k The video was taken on July 3rd, 2017 (posted on July 28th) so I…