CherieFran
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2016
Hi all! In celebration of signing up for Lumiere’s Challenge yesterday (woohoo!), I have finally joined the DISboards after a while of lurking. Thanks for all the past info that I have silently absorbed!
I figured that starting a training journal may help hold me accountable in my training. I have the pretty consistent habit of putting together a great training plan and then skipping, like, a third of my runs.
Before I jump into logging my training:
INTRODUCTIONS!
My name is Cherie, and I live in the DC area with my two-year-old pug, Mushu (named after the Chinese food but spelled like the Mulan character). His favorite Disney character is Mickey.
Although I haven’t run a Disney race since 2013, Disney is what started me on my path to running. During my first year of college, I made my very first trip to Disney World (what has now become basically an annual mother/daughter trip with my mom), and it just happened to be during the 2003 WDW Marathon. I saw runners making their way through Animal Kingdom and thought it would be super cool to do that some day. Of course, at that point, I wasn’t and had never been a runner. I made a few failed attempts to start running over the next several years, but it never really stuck.
Finally, in mid-2010, I moved from the East Coast to Texas for graduate school and decided that my new home’s lack of winter/snow meant that I should finally, finally take up running. I started from zero. Literally, I couldn’t run for 2 minutes. And slowly, slowly worked my way up. I ran my first half marathon in December 2011 (with some shorter races beforehand). Once I accomplished that, I decided I was finally ready to take the plunge and sign up for the WDW Marathon. In January 2013, 10 years after I put it on my bucket list, I ran the 20th anniversary WDW Marathon!
Marathons are rough, but I had such a good time that I signed up for the inaugural Dumbo Double Dare and completed that in 2013 as well for my Coast-to-Coast medal.
(I just realized I'm wearing the same shorts in both pics. I own more than one pair of running shorts - I promise!)
Immediately after my trip to Disneyland (like, the day after I got home), I moved half way across the country to DC and haven’t been able to make a Disney race happen since. I’ve run 1 more marathon (Marine Corps – great race but, again, blech, marathons are super hard), 11 total half marathons and a smattering of 5Ks, 10Ks, 5 milers, and 10 milers. The half marathon distance is definitely my favorite – feels like a big accomplishment to finish but doesn’t take the tons of time in training or beat you up the way the marathon does.
So, anyway, I’ve wanted to do another runDisney race for a while. I had my eye on the Wine & Dine Half for a few years (I’ve never been to Disney during the Food and Wine Festival), but wasn’t necessarily thrilled about running a half marathon late at night. I am much more an early morning person. I know a lot of people were disappointed when they announced they were switching to a morning race but that was a big bonus for me. That, plus the cute themes (Remi! Lumiere!), convinced me that this was the year to get back to runDisney. Happily, I survived the stressful gauntlet of registration yesterday, so now I am ready to get started planning and training!!!
I figured that starting a training journal may help hold me accountable in my training. I have the pretty consistent habit of putting together a great training plan and then skipping, like, a third of my runs.
Before I jump into logging my training:
INTRODUCTIONS!
My name is Cherie, and I live in the DC area with my two-year-old pug, Mushu (named after the Chinese food but spelled like the Mulan character). His favorite Disney character is Mickey.
Although I haven’t run a Disney race since 2013, Disney is what started me on my path to running. During my first year of college, I made my very first trip to Disney World (what has now become basically an annual mother/daughter trip with my mom), and it just happened to be during the 2003 WDW Marathon. I saw runners making their way through Animal Kingdom and thought it would be super cool to do that some day. Of course, at that point, I wasn’t and had never been a runner. I made a few failed attempts to start running over the next several years, but it never really stuck.
Finally, in mid-2010, I moved from the East Coast to Texas for graduate school and decided that my new home’s lack of winter/snow meant that I should finally, finally take up running. I started from zero. Literally, I couldn’t run for 2 minutes. And slowly, slowly worked my way up. I ran my first half marathon in December 2011 (with some shorter races beforehand). Once I accomplished that, I decided I was finally ready to take the plunge and sign up for the WDW Marathon. In January 2013, 10 years after I put it on my bucket list, I ran the 20th anniversary WDW Marathon!
Marathons are rough, but I had such a good time that I signed up for the inaugural Dumbo Double Dare and completed that in 2013 as well for my Coast-to-Coast medal.
(I just realized I'm wearing the same shorts in both pics. I own more than one pair of running shorts - I promise!)
Immediately after my trip to Disneyland (like, the day after I got home), I moved half way across the country to DC and haven’t been able to make a Disney race happen since. I’ve run 1 more marathon (Marine Corps – great race but, again, blech, marathons are super hard), 11 total half marathons and a smattering of 5Ks, 10Ks, 5 milers, and 10 milers. The half marathon distance is definitely my favorite – feels like a big accomplishment to finish but doesn’t take the tons of time in training or beat you up the way the marathon does.
So, anyway, I’ve wanted to do another runDisney race for a while. I had my eye on the Wine & Dine Half for a few years (I’ve never been to Disney during the Food and Wine Festival), but wasn’t necessarily thrilled about running a half marathon late at night. I am much more an early morning person. I know a lot of people were disappointed when they announced they were switching to a morning race but that was a big bonus for me. That, plus the cute themes (Remi! Lumiere!), convinced me that this was the year to get back to runDisney. Happily, I survived the stressful gauntlet of registration yesterday, so now I am ready to get started planning and training!!!