The Running Thread --2025

[jmasgat]

Welcome to the 2025 Edition of the Running Thread!

We talk all things running (and some things not!).. and of course, we throw in some Disney too.

ALL runners/walkers/wheelers are welcome to share, read, chat and encourage. We are a supportive community and welcome all to join! The group ranges from brand new runners to Boston Qualifiers & ultra-marathoners; there is a virtual seat for everyone- don't be shy to jump in!

We will post periodic "Questions of the Day" (QOTD) and encourage everyone to participate. Please also feel free to share upcoming races and post-race reports.

Without further ado.... let's get this thread running!

Let's do this!

 

[jmasgat]

Thought I'd get things started again. And to start the year off, thought I would go for a pictorial QOTD....

QOTD: Post a picture that provides a running/walking highlight of 2024. It can be a race, a place, a face (Okay this rhyming has got to stop). You don't have to be in the picture if you would prefer to remain reasonably anonymous. Animal shots are always welcome.

I'll start.....Wine and Dine 5k--my first (and likely last) costume race. I'm the one dressed as "Muppet pre-show Gonzo--complete with flower pot. My friends were Swedish Chef and (Camilla) chicken. A good time was had by all.

 

[nancipants]

ATTQOTD: My highlight is without a doubt running the Princess half marathon (my first) with one of my best “mom” friends. It was such a fun weekend to finally hang out with her in person after four years of talking almost daily via text, and our kids (two months apart) had a lot of fun together, too. Our castle photo came out exactly how I dreamed.

 

[mtnmjd]

ATQOD: I guess Spring Time Surprise was the "highlight" of my running year. But this race was also where my arthritic rebuilt knee started getting too painful to deal with and forced me to get some early summer surgery to get it cleaned up. Allowed to start running again just in time to catch up to Dopey training schedule, so most of my 2024 running were "boring" training runs.

I also vowed not to do SS again.....but I'll be back running the 10 miler in April because my now adult son wanted to do his 1st RunDisney race.

Pictured: My version of Carl for the Up themed 10k... and meeting Jogging Jack Sparrow afterwards

 

[Jules76126]

I don’t have a favorite running photo from 2024 as I was pregnant for a good majority of the year (hello pregnancy sickness) and then enjoying the baby. I’m done having kids 2025 is my return to running and being an active member of this community.

 

[michigandergirl]

ATTQOTD:
Here’s a picture from the Groundhog Half Marathon. I’ve been running this race for years as a way to keep training through winter. We were super lucky to have no snow in 2024 and I was so happy and relieved for that!

Happy New Year!

 

[GollyGadget]

ATTQOTD: Undoubtedly the running highlight of my 2024 was completing the Marathon Pour Tous as part of Paris 2024. Below is a photo of “the wall” that we ran up at mile 18. It’s admittedly not a very good photo, but it was a very memorable part of the race. The US broadcast team referred to this section as similar to the uphill of a roller coaster and it’s the best description I’ve heard. Absolutely brutal that far into a marathon, max grade of 13.5% and climb of 300 ft in less than a mile. But I survived, even if my legs needed a brief pep talk once we got to the top

 

[Professor_Cookie]

Attqotd: Seeing the Magic come into harbor on Embarkation day while doing a sunrise run around Old San Juan was the bee’s knees

 

[Baloo in MI]

ATTQOTD:
Outside of Groundhogs Day Marathon I only ran runDisney races this past year, and not sure I had very many pictures but then I remembered my favorite photo stop in a really long time; Baloo!!! And I got it with my daughter and running partner for runDisney!

 

[Naomeri]

ATTQOTD: I'm choosing when I made the runDisney socials at the Springtime Surprise 10K dressed as Lilo (& Stitch) with Lilo & Stitch pre-race

 

[Herding_Cats]

Having a lot of strangers yell, “There’s no crying in baseball!” during and after the 5k.

 

[The Expert]

It's a pretty terrible photo, but I was SO excited to get a pic with Meg and Herc during the half of a half at last year's MW!

 

[pluto377]

I think my favorite moment was completing the coast to coast, something I probably won't have the chance to do again.

 

[accm]

Running highlight of 2024 was finishing the DC Cherry Blossom 10 miler 2 minutes faster than my goal, and getting a corral A POT for wine and dine! Apparently I have no decent photos, and I wasn't about to pay $30 for an official photo when they all look terrible. So you get this, from the finish chute

 

[garneska]

My highlight is my MRI and not in a good way. To be honest i can't read this at all, but i think all the white in the pic is most of the bad stuff.



On a more positive note i will be running the 10k for MW and hoping to do the half in 2026.

 

[WillRunForPizza]

I met Des Linden! She is short

 

[pluto377]

I met Des Linden! She is short

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She's still taller than me!

 

[azrivest]

QOTD: Finishing Dopey 2024



Maybe a once in a liftime thing for me, so I'm happy I enjoyed it 100%

 

[The Expert]

I met Des Linden! She is short

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I had to google it. SHE'S MY HEIGHT! LOL!

 

[nancipants]

She's still taller than me!

And me!!!