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  • The Miles I Did Anyway
    Disney | From the Run | Running

    The Miles I Did Anyway

    ByLisa September 5, 2026September 5, 2026

    My watch handed me free miles this morning. I ran them anyway — and then spent the day thinking about why.

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  • Top Ten Ways to Ruin Your runDisney Race Weekend
    Disney | runDisney | Running

    Top Ten Ways to Ruin Your runDisney Race Weekend

    ByLisa August 8, 2026August 8, 2026

    Ten surprisingly easy ways to derail a runDisney race weekend—from chasing a PR and skimping on sleep to underestimating the logistics. Plus, how to avoid every one of them.

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  • How to Register for a runDisney Race
    Disney | runDisney | Running

    How to Register for a runDisney Race

    ByLisa June 21, 2026July 6, 2026

    runDisney just moved the 2027 Springtime Surprise Weekend up a week. It’s now April 8–11, 2027. But the date that matters for now is still the same: Registration.  General registration opens Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at 10 a.m. Eastern on runDisney.com. (Club runDisney Gold- and Platinum-level members can register a week earlier, on June 30th.)…

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  • runDisney Springtime Surprise 2026: Springtime Surprise 10K Recap
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    runDisney Springtime Surprise 2026: Springtime Surprise 10K Recap

    ByLisa June 14, 2026June 21, 2026

    Another day, another race!! This morning at 5 a.m. we ran the 10K portion of runDisney’s 2026 Springtime Surprise race weekend. Yesterday morning things were already super busy when I got to the main staging area at around 3:15, so today, out of curiosity, I left 10 or 15 minutes earlier and parked at closer…

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  • runDisney Springtime Surprise 2026: Springtime Surprise 5K Recap
    Disney | runDisney | Running

    runDisney Springtime Surprise 2026: Springtime Surprise 5K Recap

    ByLisa April 17, 2026June 21, 2026

    This was just the loveliest race morning!  Today was the first race of runDisney’s 2026 Springtime Surprise Weekend: the 5K. The overarching theme for the weekend is friendship duos. Partners in crime, if you will, and that theming is giving the weekend as a whole the nicest vibes. I went over to Expo yesterday morning…

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  • The Complete Guide to runDisney’s 2026 Springtime Surprise Weekend
    Disney | Race Guides | runDisney | Running

    The Complete Guide to runDisney’s 2026 Springtime Surprise Weekend

    ByLisa April 13, 2026July 5, 2026

    Everything you need to know as a runner or spectator during runDisney’s 2026 Springtime Surprise Race Weekend in one place.

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  • runDisney 2026 – Disney Princess Half Marathon Recap: Ten Years Running
    Disney | runDisney | Running

    runDisney 2026 – Disney Princess Half Marathon Recap: Ten Years Running

    ByLisa March 1, 2026March 1, 2026

    Another race weekend is behind us. Dopey feels like it just happened. I can’t even wrap my head around Princess being over now, too.  The Lead Up This was the first time in ten years that I only ran one of the races of a race weekend. My very first runDisney race was the 2016…

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  • The Complete Guide to runDisney’s 2026 Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend
    Disney | Race Guides | runDisney | Running

    The Complete Guide to runDisney’s 2026 Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend

    ByLisa February 23, 2026July 5, 2026

    Everything you need to know as a runner or spectator during runDisney’s 2026 Marathon Weekend in one place.

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  • runDisney: 2026 Walt Disney World Half Marathon Recap
    Disney | runDisney | Running

    runDisney: 2026 Walt Disney World Half Marathon Recap

    ByLisa January 10, 2026June 21, 2026

    If you want to see the 5K recap, you can find it HERE. The 10K recap is HERE. And my comprehensive guide for the weekend is HERE. Another race down!! This morning’s half marathon, starting at 5 a.m. and featuring lovebirds Donald Duck and Daisy Duck, marked the third race of Walt Disney World’s 2026…

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  • runDisney: 2026 Walt Disney World 10K Recap
    Disney | runDisney | Running

    runDisney: 2026 Walt Disney World 10K Recap

    ByLisa January 9, 2026June 21, 2026

    If you want to see the 5K recap, you can find it HERE, and my comprehensive guide for the weekend is HERE. 2 down!! This morning’s 10K went “nuts for 6.2 mysterious miles led by super sleuth Chip and his trusty friend Dale.” I don’t know what it was about this course that made it…

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My watch lied to me this morning. The first mile My watch lied to me this morning. The first mile buzzed early. So did the next two. My Garmin had decided that I’d run farther than I had. And if you know Garmin, you know it doesn’t just throw around kindnesses. For half a second, if I’m being totally honest, I almost took it. But then I took a beat and thought—why? I’m not doing this run for anybody but myself. Why cut it short for a tech error? So I ran the full five miles anyway. Tacked the “extra” on at the end, in the heat, to make up the gifted distance I hadn’t actually covered. I know I’m probably overthinking this, but this little act stayed with me. I’m coming back to a strict running schedule after many months of downtime with my head buried in writing and publishing my book. And it’s amazing how fast I’ve switched back to this version of myself that would finish the actual mileage without a second thought. No one was auditing my tracking data. The only person who would ever know whether those miles were real was me—and I ran them anyway. My legs decided before my brain had the chance to weigh in. My inner negotiator didn’t even get to start talking. I should be clear that this wasn’t willpower. Willpower is exhausting and sometimes I don’t have that much of it. It’s something quieter that training builds in you over time: the habit of keeping a promise that you made only to yourself. You practice it in small, almost silly ways—four-tenths of a mile in the Florida heat. Doing laps in front of your house because it has to end at an even 3.1 or 6.2 or 10 or 20. And then one day you notice it’s followed you home. You stand up a little taller because you’re somebody worth keeping promises to. And you start doing the other, non-running things. The work you kept saying you’d do. The version of your life you kept promising yourself you’d build. It’s sort of my original story, I guess—harnessing running like this—but it’s very much still happening now and it’s hardly unique to me. If any of this sounds familiar, or appealing, it’s the thread running through Chapter 17 of The runDisney Companion. That chapter was always the seed of something big
Scrapbook from the first day of Food & Wine: 1. Scrapbook from the first day of Food & Wine: 1. Entrance #TasteEpcot 2. Seoul, South Korea Bo Ssam Pork Poutine (La Poutinerie) 3. Cinnamon Pretzel Cold Brew (Sommerfest 🇩🇪) 4. Cute new train set details 🇩🇪 5. Spicy Temaki Hand Roll - This and the Wagyu were both excellent. 🇯🇵 6. Wasabi-Soy Sauce-flavored Potato Chips 🇯🇵 7. Before it rained. 8. Katsura 9. Dumplings Trio 🇨🇳 10. Exit 11. Almost home
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