Virtual Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend Blog Hop Follow these authors for your virtual runDisney experience. It's the "Happiest Race on Earth"!!  And now, the "most stupendous, magnificent, super-colossal spectacle!" Best Hotel Accommodations~   Lena MacLennan       The Beginners Runner   Best Airport for Disneyland Travel~   Pamela Potter Frost   Wife Mother Runner   Tips for Running Your 1st runDisney Race~    Nerissa Rivera-Laux     So Disney   Disneyland vs. Walt Disney World Races~   Patty … [Read more...]

Are you ready for some virtual planning?  A virtual peek- registration to finish line- at the upcoming    Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend? "All aboard!  Let's go!" Attention experts, pros, beginners and wannabes, we want YOU!  My co-host (the incomparable running and personality powerhouse @krissymmurphy, blogging at Shiawase Life) and I are looking for all those with runDisney passion who will join us in a Virtual runDisney Blog Hop on Wednesday, August 13th, 2014.  Each potential writer will choose a race … [Read more...]

It is my absolute pleasure to welcome guest blogger, Kimberly Kahl, to the Virtual runDisney family! Visit her on Facebook, Follow her on Twitter at @DisneyGalKimK, and most urgently, chEAR for her on May 3rd!! The Expedition Everest Challenge Scavenger Hunt.  It's what made me decide to run the EEC as my second-ever Disney run and third-ever race.  It also scares me.  One would think that as a non-runner, the 5K and obstacles would scare me, but I know I've got that covered.  Instead, prerace I'm … [Read more...]

Virtual Expedition Everest Challenge Blog Hop Follow these authors for your virtual race success. Let these "Sherpa experts" be your guide! Event Host Resorts/Transportation~ Kelly Carson & Judy Roszkowski     The Main Street Moms Expedition Everest Challenge Overview~   Andrea Howell     Once Upon a Run Expedition Everest Challenge Post-Race Party~   Mary Beth Jackson     tutus and tennies Obstacles~   April Shuping   Run the Great Wide … [Read more...]

I've said, repeatedly, over the past 3 years; perhaps my favorite feature of runDisney events is their "giving back" to the community that supports them.  I don't believe enough attention is given to this behind the scenes cooperation, which ranges from monetary donations to considerable visibility for the designated charities that each of runDisney's events "celebrates".  I recently corresponded with Darrell Fry, Walt Disney World Resort Sports Media Director, and these are the details he shared: We do provide a donation to the … [Read more...]