Tag: Disney

Heatwave

Jess Guth7 Comments

So how many of you are braving a run in this heat? Well, for England this is hot hot hot – for northern England this is insane. How do those of you who live in hot countries ever do any running? I’m not complaining about the weather, don’t get me wrong, I like hot but I do prefer it when I don’t actually have to do anything much!

Yesterday was the 30th June and that meant the start of our marathon training programme. That means it is 28 weeks to the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. Oh my goodness – 28 weeks! Given the heat the sensible thing would have been to give running a miss and perhaps walk instead or to at least postpone the run until later on in the evening when it got a bit cooler (although I don’t remember it getting cooler!). But no, we went at about 5pm. The first run of the programme is a 45 minute run. In fact all the runs during the week are 45 minutes.There is then a distance run at the weekend, 3-5 mile one weekend and a long run the next – the mileage for the long runs builds up by 2 miles every other weekend.

We are continuing to follow the run/walk approach to running  – sort of adapted a bit from Jeff Galloway who has also created the training programmes for runDisney.Our run/walk intervals are still at 2 minutes running and 30 seconds walking but we did talk about increasing the running bit soon. Not in this heat though. So off we toddled in the heat. We probably started at fairly strong pace for us but that didn’t last long, even in the shade it was a struggle. In the sun I just couldn’t breathe. We kept going though and on a few runs started walking up to 15 seconds earlier. We got to the end. The pace was 13.23 minutes per mile so actually not that bad given that it was so hot and we went for 10 minutes longer than we have done on our weekly runs before.

I didn’t hate that run, I quite enjoyed it, I just found it very very very hard. I am excited to have ticked off the first run of the training programme. It feels like we’re in the game now. Next one is tomorrow, the forecast suggests a slightly cooler day. I’d like that!

Thank you – Real Neat Blog Award

Jess Guth1 Comment

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It has been a very busy few weeks and I have kept meaning to post but just haven’t got round to it. Updates on running to follow but I must say thank you to fellow bloggers BritsRunDisney who nominated my blog for the Real Neat Blog Award. I got the notification from them after a really really tough day during which our last ewe had trouble lambing and all 3 triplets died (more about our sheep here). It was lovely to come home to a positive message. This is what they said:

“Hello there, I love reading your blog and have nominated it on my blog for a ‘real neat blog award’ – you don’t have to participate but if you do fancy it you can read the rules on my post https://britsrundisney.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/the-real-neat-blog-award/ Keep up the great work! It’s so nice to hear updates from someone on a similar journey as we are :)”

As part of this they wanted me to answer a number of Disney related questions so here goes:

1. Who is your favourite Disney Character and why?

Oooh tricky. I like the Winnie the Pooh gang but don’t really see them as Disney… I also have a soft sport for Dopey and Grumpy

2. If you had to skip a park on your next visit to Disney World which would you skip and why?

As we are going in January, I’ll happily skip the waterparks! Ok that’s cheating! As much as I love the Magic Kingdom, I’d probably skip that simply because I’ve spent most time there already on previous visits and I have specific reasons to want to go back to the others. However if all goes to plan that won’t work as I will have to run through the parks as part of the marathon!

3. What is your Favorite Ride at Disney(Land or World or Both)?

Never been to Disney Land so no idea for that but Disney World. Hm. I suspect I would love Splash Mountain but I have always been in January and it has always been closed for maintenance! I love Soarin’ in Epcot

4. What is your favourite snack at Disney(Land or World or Both) and why?

Corn on the cob – love it

5. What is your top tip for someone about to go to Disney?

Believe in the magic

6. What is your Favorite thing to do aside from going to Disney?

Sitting reading a book in the field with our sheep

7. If you could bring back an old ride that has now closed down, which would you bring back and why?

I don’t know! I am not aware of any rides I like being shut down. Last time we went we did miss a shop though – it was on Main Street USA before and sold disney stuff for pets, Kath’s mum wanted something for a friend’s dog and we looked all over but couldn’t find it.

So – once again thank you! Thank you for reading and thank you for the encouragement. I don’t really read any other blogs about disney or run disney (I knwo there are a good number of you out there) – just don’t have the time at the moment so I’d like to save nomination until I have actually read some. But if you like Disney and you like following a runner’s journey I do recommend BritsRunDinsey!