Running Renaissance: WDW Marathon 2025

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Congrats! Love the mascot pic.

 

[GollyGadget]

Dam to DSM Training - Week 3

Thank you! I’m hoping to get an even shinier one in two weeks but that’ll likely depend on the weather

Amazing job on the PR!

Fun game of chasing down your partner too, I love that!

Thanks! I highly recommend the strategy. It definitely helped me stay on task and not settle into a more comfortable pace.

Congrats on the PR! Having to catch your partner is really good motivation.

Thank you! I definitely recommend! And if not your partner, maybe someone else. For my first half, my goal was to beat the elites running the marathon

Congrats! Love the mascot pic.

Thanks! I somehow always miss him at this race so was really glad to get the pic this year.

 

[GollyGadget]

Dam to DSM Training - Week 4
Training is going fine. I still have some opportunity to be more consistent, but even with that, I feel training is in a much better place than when I was following Garmin’s advice. Highlight of the week was obviously the 10K race recapped above.

Tuesday I ran 10x150m and it went pretty well. My first three reps were on the slow side but the last 7 were all right near 6:30 min/mi and I was really pleased with that. The most interesting part of the run was weigh in results. My nutritionist suggested weighing myself before and after to estimate fluid loss via sweat. I dropped nearly 2 lbs in under 90 minutes! this blew my mind.

Wednesday was an easy run and I decided to weigh myself again just to compare. Only half a pound loss so effort level definitely makes a difference. I also ran in the am because my Wednesday’s continue to be hectic so it was a tad cooler.

Thursday was a scheduled day of rest and Friday was supposed to be another easy day. Somehow even though I had the day off work, the day totally slipped away from me and I ended up skipping this run.

Saturday was race day . The only other thing I wanted to mention is how garmin reacted. All of a sudden it thinks I can run a faster 10K because I had run faster



When I woke up on Sunday my back was surprisingly sore and my hamstrings were unsurprisingly sore. It also rained all day. However, I didn’t let either of those get in my way and I completed my scheduled easy 4 miles. I was literally the only human outside in the 40 degree rain but I felt much better afterward.

My race last weekend kicked off the Drake relays and this week is full of fun T&F festivities. Tonight (Tuesday), I’ll be running the road mile and really hoping that I don’t blow up

 

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Dam to DSM Training - Week 4
Training is going fine. I still have some opportunity to be more consistent, but even with that, I feel training is in a much better place than when I was following Garmin’s advice. Highlight of the week was obviously the 10K race recapped above.

Tuesday I ran 10x150m and it went pretty well. My first three reps were on the slow side but the last 7 were all right near 6:30 min/mi and I was really pleased with that. The most interesting part of the run was weigh in results. My nutritionist suggested weighing myself before and after to estimate fluid loss via sweat. I dropped nearly 2 lbs in under 90 minutes! this blew my mind.

Wednesday was an easy run and I decided to weigh myself again just to compare. Only half a pound loss so effort level definitely makes a difference. I also ran in the am because my Wednesday’s continue to be hectic so it was a tad cooler.

Thursday was a scheduled day of rest and Friday was supposed to be another easy day. Somehow even though I had the day off work, the day totally slipped away from me and I ended up skipping this run.

Saturday was race day . The only other thing I wanted to mention is how garmin reacted. All of a sudden it thinks I can run a faster 10K because I had run faster

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When I woke up on Sunday my back was surprisingly sore and my hamstrings were unsurprisingly sore. It also rained all day. However, I didn’t let either of those get in my way and I completed my scheduled easy 4 miles. I was literally the only human outside in the 40 degree rain but I felt much better afterward.

My race last weekend kicked off the Drake relays and this week is full of fun T&F festivities. Tonight (Tuesday), I’ll be running the road mile and really hoping that I don’t blow up

Good luck for the road mile