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Ep 12 Tips for a Hot WDW Marathon, 2022 Runnings Goals, and More!

Hot, hot, hot! We know that weather for the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend is going to be on the warmer side, so the team shares their tips for staying safe so that you have an enjoyable race. Next we touch upon our running goals for 2022, and then wrap up with a special race report where we give a shout out to everyone participating in this weekend’s events!

Be sure to join us for our meet-up this Saturday, January 8th, at Dockside Margaritas at Disney Spring. We would all love the chance to chat with you in person and hear about your race experiences!

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Ep 10 WDW Marathon Weekend Questions Answered, Running Related Holiday Gifts, Jeff Galloway JG13.1 Weekend, and Joe: The King of Virtual Runs

On this week’s episode, the Rise and Run team answers the questions our listeners posted on social media about the 2022 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. Also with Christmas right around the corner, we discuss great running related gifts to give to friends and family, as well as what is on our Christmas’s list (hoping that we are on Santa’s nice list). Finally during this week’s race report, Lexie and Bob discuss their experience at the JG13.1 weekend in Atlanta, and we talk with our friend Joe about the massive amount of miles he puts in each and every week, and get a glimpse into his passion for Christmas decorations.

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Ep 9 runDisney Springtime Surprise Registration, and Mental Toughness for Marathon Weekend Training

On this week’s episode of the Rise and Run Podcast, the team discusses their success rate of registering for the inaugural runDisney Springtime Surprise. We then shift our focus to discuss what we believe is the hardest week of the runDisney Marathon Weekend training calendar and how to be successful in completing all of your training runs. Finally we wrap up the episode by discussing what to expect during your first runDisney race weekend, from arriving at the Orlando International Airport (MCO) through crossing the finish line!

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Ep 5 Preparing for WDW Marathon Weekend

Marathon Weekend is coming up, quickly! The training runs are getting long and the weather in many parts of the country is getting nasty. How do you stay motivated during the toughest part of the training? Do you really need to run 26 miles to be ready for the marathon? When the Galloway training schedule says “walk,” do you really walk those distances? What do you do to help the time go by on those long runs? In this week’s episode, we discuss all of this and take one more look back and Wine and Dine Weekend.

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Ep 4 runDisney Wine and Dine Weekend Recap

Wine and Dine Weekend 2021, the first runDisney event in 21 months, is history and the WDW Marathon Weekend is a mere 8 weeks away. In this episode, recognizing that marathon weekend participants are in their advanced dining reservation window, we chat a bit about our favorite, in-park places to eat. The Race Report was focused, of course, on what we learned at W&D Weekend and what we might expect to see in future runDisney events.

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