Author: ted

I managed to squeak in 3.5 Dopey Challenge training miles last night on the treadmill after I thought I had lost my opportunity to get the miles in earlier in the day. So that was a nice surprise…time and energy at the same time! I then started this morning with some pool and hot tub…

I got up this morning mentally trying to find a way out of running. This kind of sucked because I had made a conscious and clear choice to not run last night so that I could force myself to do a longer outdoor run this morning. Weather radar showed rain coming so maybe I should…

I woke up this morning, looked outside and saw that it had rained overnight and hoped it meant it would be cool and a longer run could be done. …then I checked the actual temperature…yeah the rain did nothing for the heat. 23C (73.4F) feeling like 30C (86F) at 9 am? Ouch. So instead of…

Ok – time to wake up and get going again. A combination of stress, anxiety, injury and just plain laziness has taken me down. I have been on a slow decline running wise and a slow incline weight wise since the Dopey Challenge in January 2015. Some quick history: I struggled a bit through spring…

Well – it has been a while since I put up a blog post – mostly because I haven’t really been doing anything particularly exciting or productive on the running side of things. I will do a bit of a catch up post in a while but I want to get up a race report…

I was up relatively early today for my last day at Disney World (I had wanted to sleep in but that didn’t happen) before catching a flight in the evening back home to wintry Winnipeg. The temperatures in Disney World were already starting to recover from the cold Sunday marathon and that made it extra…

See here for Day 4 part 1 describing the actual Disney World Marathon portion of the day. After making it back to the hotel room and having a much needed warm shower, I sorted out a bunch of my gear and ate a sandwich that I had waiting ready in the room’s fridge. I also…

Ok – alarm went off at 2:30 and I started the layering process. It was super cold out (for Orlando) and with a sharp wind it was going to be chilly standing at the start line waiting for the chance to run! (I haven’t added many race pics to this post but one quick note…

Alrighty – up at 7am – should have been over half done the Disney World half marathon by now but the weather cancellation that came through the night meant I got to sleep in.  I lay in bed trying to figure out what I wanted to do and when I wanted to run my unofficial…

Ok – day 2 of this interesting trip for the 2017 Goofy Challenge  I was up early and got out quickly to the path by Disney’s Beach Club Resort to spectate the Minnie 10k race. I just missed the first of the runners heading past the hotel just after mile 5 of the race –…