So I said I would always be honest about running on this blog but I have to come clean. I wasn’t entirely honest about our marathon efforts. We were actually training for the Rundisney Dopey Challenge.
The challenge includes a 5km, a 10km, a half marathon and a full marathon on 4 consecutive days. Back when we signed up we were so worried that we wouldn’t be able to get a marathon place because the sell out so fast that we took the opportunity to sign up through the Runners world challenge which was the Dopey. We initially thought we would just run the 5km and then the marathon but as training progressed the idea took hold.
Well today we completed that challenge by running the marathon. I am a little sore and very tired so I will leave reflections on Dopey for tomorrow or another day but I did write a blog post each day after each race and I will post them here shortly. I apologise now for any dodgy spelling or formatting – I only have the iPad here. Completing the challenge is bloody huge. I couldn’t run 100metres 12 months ago and now
really (not) a runner 
[…] our first Dopey Challenge. There’s a string of blog posts about that experience starting with this one. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about the marathoniversary this year. Partly because I am not […]
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[…] for a little while (or have looked in the archives) will remember the complete madness that is the Dopey Challenge. The Dopey is a 4 day event at the Walt Disney World Marathon weekend which takes place annually at […]
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I also read these last to first. OM-bloody-G you are amazing…!
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OK, I am now officially utterly overwhelmed by how impressed I am. An inspiration!
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I know….I was so surprised when these series of posts mentioned dopey. I thought to myself ‘wait. I thought she was marathon training’. Big surprise! Huge accomplishment!!
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That is AMAZING!!!!! Well done Dopey!!!
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Thank you!
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Congratulations on completing the Dopey challenge!! I think this is such an amazing achievement and I could only hope to one day be able to do it myself!! You rock!!
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Wah! Congrats! I started reading your posts last to first and thought, WTF? That’s amazing!
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Thank you Janine, it has been an amazing journey
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