Empire Unleashed

Category: Races

  • Ready to Wine and Dine 13.1 miles!

        Things are getting very exciting over here! The Wine and Dine Weekend is 10 days away! It’s been a long time since my last long distance race. I was telling Alpha that I believe to me a distance runner. While the 5Ks, and 10Ks are a lot of fun, my heart is in…

  • We have dined, now time to run!

      The Wine and Dine Half  Marathon is just 19 days away! I can’t be more excited for this race! It will be my second night race being I have already ran the Tower of Terror 10-miler in the past. The training has been going excellent! Little setbacks as far as my Scoliosis pain goes…

  • Wine and Dine Half Marathon Update

    I’m still going strong with my training for the runDisney Wine and Dine Half Marathon in November. I am very excited for this race!!! It will be my third night run at Walt Disney World. It is a completely different experience and one must try it at least once! I am excited to run this year’s…

  • I’m going back to Disney in 2015!

    In January I ran my first full marathon at the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. It was my second time participating in that even as the previous year I ran the half marathon representing TEAM ASPCA. In January, I ran the full with my best friend and Alpha. As most of you know, it wasn’t…

  • Wine, Dine, and running Oh my!

    I just signed up for a half marathon I’ve been wanting to do. It’s the Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon! I am so excited for this race as it’s different from the others. It still runs through parks but not the same ones as the half marathon and princess half. The course starts off…

  • I am a marathoner! My Walt Disney World Marathon memories

    After Alpha and I ran our 10K, I couldn’t wait for the full marathon! I was excited and oddly enough I wasn’t as nervous as I was the previous week. There was one thing on my mind….BLISTERS!!!! I just finished the 10K and had blister thst starting bothering me at mile 2! While at the…

  • Walt Disney World Inaugural 10K race!!!

    So along for the marathon weekend we also signed up for the newly added 10K to the race weekend. Here is my recap: It’s kind of hard for Alpha and I to pass up an inaugural race so we HAD to do this one! Granted I must have been nuts when I signed up because…

  • It’s less than a month away!

      This is almost starting to become unreal! I can’t believe my first full marathon is just weeks away! I am excited and nervous at the same time. I wish training had gone a little better for me, but at least I am on the right track. I have a few more chances to do…

  • Team Refuel represented!

    Super excited to say, I completed my second half marathon this year!!! This race was amazing and an unforgettable experience. I was a little nervous on race day because the whole week leading up to Saturday I was sick with a weird upper respiratory infection. I was very congested with a constant cough with a…

  • The OUC Orlando Half Marathon

    As you know, I am currently training for my first full marathon that is in 45 days! AAHHH! Training is going well, not at the distance that I would want to be at but getting there. I am finding my rhythm so I am happy. Within the last week, I received a call letting me…