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7 May 2016: Day 3 – The Tinkerbell 10k!!

Okay, so who’s bright idea was it to make everyone get up so early to run a 10k at Disneyland!   My alarm went off at 3:40, but I was awake many times before that.  Fortunately I had prepped a bit the day before, saving a bagel & peanut butter from the breakfast buffet and setting out my running clothes…

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4 May 2016: UPDATE on Operation Tinkerbell!

My sister responded to my email saying “Maybe next year for Star Wars…:)”  so I’m not sure if she knows that I’m running the Tinkerbell 10K with her or not.  We recently had the phone conversation about all of my family running in January at the Disneyland Star Wars weekend….so maybe I’m in the clear. Today I received a really…

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4 May 2016: OH NOOOOOO!!!!!

My sister just sent me an email.  Here’s what she wrote, but I’ve redacted our names… Subj:  Why is your name listed on the Tinkerbell Weekend 10k list?!!! Are you doing it?  I went to try and see if I could figure out what my bib number was and put in [LastName] then I saw [yourName] from Houston is doing…

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30 April 2016: One week to go

One week from today I will be running the Tinker Bell 10k with my sister.  Hopefully she will be surprised the day before when we go pick up our race packets and she realizes that I’m running with her!  And hopefully I’ll be able to keep it a secret until then. Coach Joan cancelled today’s 9 to 5 running clinic…

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24 April 2016: Longest training run EVER!

Today was my final long training run before the Tinker Bell 10k.  My training schedule said that I needed to run/walk 6.5 miles.  I was so dreading this run that I even reached out to my running clinic buddies to see if anyone wanted to go with me.  Coach Toni said she could go – but only in the evening…

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21 April 2016: Thank you Mystery Runner

Tonight’s run at Memorial Park was still hot and humid.  Low 80s and the humidity was also in the low 80s. The first mile was really rough.  My allergies bothered me, the sun was hot, the shade was nonexistent and I think that I really didn’t want to run. About the time I started, I saw this woman walking just…

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