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Train Like a Princess~ Get on Track!

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After completing Princess Training Steps 1 and  2, you are no doubt wearing the perfect pair of running shoes, and have chosen the ideal training program.  What's next?  Where do you take your rubber to the road??  It may surprise you, but when asked this next question I typically tell my patients who are beginner runners to hit the neighborhood track.  There's a reason you've been paying your local school district tax!  Though you may be visualizing the London Olympics in your head (of course the … [Read more...]

Polynesian Village Pinterest- 1973 & 1982

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Isn't Deb amazing?  Doesn't she continue to challenge, impress and put a smile on our faces?? This week's Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop with Focused on the Magic made me so happy!  It "forced" me to take a look back over each and every one of DIStherapy's 296 posts and pick a favorite. Or two.  Or better yet, the favorites of my friends and readers.  By no coincidence, both come from Wordless Wednesday posts.  I think Deb is onto something... A Polynesian Postcard to My Grandmother 1973 Polynesian Village … [Read more...]

Train Like a Princess | Run-Walk-Run or Couch-to-5K?

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Well, you now have the perfect pair of running shoes, and are set for the road.  There are a great many programs that are geared for this next step, but perhaps the two most known and beloved are Cool Running's The Couch to 5K Running Plan and Official runDisney Training Consultant Jeff Galloway's Run Walk Run Method.  From a best practice standpoint, both avoid the "two steps forward and four back" that plagues many eager beavers.  The reality is that slow and steady really does win the race, and keeps you out of a physical therapist's … [Read more...]

Train Like a Princess- Does the Shoe Fit?

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Have the tweets, e-mail updates, and Facebook runner tracking images from the past two runDisney weekends made you wriggle in your comfy chair?  Well, they're meant to!  Typically, 40% of runners at events such as the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend and Tinker Bell Half Marathon Weekend are new to that distance.  In short, runDisney spectaculars are magnets to newbies.  And I should know. If you have been so enticed over the past 2 weeks that you simply can't sit still any longer, then this series is … [Read more...]