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Disney has announced that this is the last year for both races. The text of their email follows: “October 2009 is your last chance to run Disney’s Race for the Taste 10K & 3K andThe Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™ 13K and 5K! These races will not be returning in 2010. That means it’s the…
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I cannot tell you why, but last night when I saw this video of my children I started crying and couldn’t stop. Tears of happiness and bittersweet feelings, I suppose, and the realization that I have been so richly blessed with a great family. This was 6 years ago, when my oldest was 4 and…
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If you would be so kind, please navigate your browsers to the following url and vote for my show, Running to Disney. Just scroll down on your right side… Mush’s Blog http://blogdumush.blogspot.com/ And while you’re there, follow his blog, if you like Disney. Many thanks…
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The fall race challenge medal Gordon runs a 5K, and renews his love/hate relationship with those races. He ruminates on why we shouldn’t get too comfortable in life or in running…to be still or get comfortable invites complacency…we must move forward. He gets good emails and voice mails. He announces his weight loss plans and…
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88 miles in July Finally getting back to mileage levels from marathon training months. I’m running longer daily distances, up to 4 miles on weekdays as opposed to 3 miles in the past. I’m also running 5 days a week, instead of the 4 I ran during marathon training. I’ve got a good base and…
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If you have read this blog from the beginning (and if not, feel free to see the archives), then you know that my running adventure started after I was diagnosed with, as my Physician friend Don described it, “industrial strength” high blood pressure. Three things caused this: 1)my weight. Although I had lost a few…
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The funk is over. I break out of the funk with a diatribe vigorously defending my stature as a runner, and making the assertion that runners look like those who run: short, tall, big and small. There is no “runner’s body” other than that of the particular person running. In other words, those hard bodies…
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Gordon finally climbs out of Funk Canyon with some help from his friends. He has another phone conversation with his friend Hope about getting out of running funks, he announces his next marathon, he gives a Disney Running tip of the week, highlights a blog of the week and plays great voice mails. He also…
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Gordon falls into the the Grand Canyon of running funks and tries to claw himself out. To do so, he interviews Hope Jones, a former student of his who holds Master’s degrees in Sports Psychology and Counseling and also operates Setup Events (www.setupevents.com), a group that times and produces races in North Carolina. He introduces…
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The Fuzzy Butt 10K Okay, it wasn’t really called that, but as you exit the interstate in Clanton, you see a water tower fashioned and painted to resemble a giant peach. But as you can see from the photo above, it resembles a fuzzy orange butt. If you recall, this Clanton race was the focus…
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Episode 24: A Tale of Two 10Ks This episode Gorodn reports on 2 10K races he runs on successive weekends. One is great, the other is not. In Gadsden on June 13, he ran his forst ever 10K and had probably the best race he’s run in 2 years. The other, in Clanton Alabama, was…
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