I just did 10 miles.
(That’s the whole post – nothing more needs to be said.)
Category: Motivation
8 Miles? That’s Dopey!
When I ran the WDW Marathon on January 12, 2025, I knew that was going to be the last time that I would cover the 26.2 mile distance. It was my 27th marathon and it was coming as the last leg in the Dopey Challenge – an endurance event I wanted and needed to accomplish to put a capstone on my marathon “career.”
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My Marathon Career…
A look back through my race numbers.
I went the distance 27 times.
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100% Chopin, 13% Mozart
Last year I decided to embark on a fun new journey. I decided that I would take the time to experience as much of the great works of the great classical artists as possible.
I began this journey with Frederic Chopin purchasing a 17-CD collection that contained all of Chopin’s works and slowly, but diligently, listened to each compact disc in its entirety. I was a fun and most wonderful journey.
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Random & Important Thoughts
I have a bunch of scattered thoughts to share. These will come in no particular order.
My treadmill is basically broken. I can run on it in a pinch, but it skips a bit and makes a loud bang every few steps making it very hard to maintain any type of pace or focus. I have had this treadmill for at least a decade. I have run thousands and thousands (I’m thinking at least 10,000) miles on it. It owes me nothing. I wanted to run today, but it’s cold and snowing… so I went outside anyway.
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Did It Break Me?
August 7, 2025
Running has been a bit of a struggle for me this summer. My longest run was seven miles. I most frequently run only three to four miles. A five-mile run (which I did this morning) is a long run for me these days.
My last big race, the Walt Disney World Marathon, (in January of this year) came as the last leg of the Dopey Challenge, a series of four races, each a bit longer than the one previous, over four days. (A 5k, followed by a 10k, followed by a half-marathon, followed by the full marathon – 48.6 miles in total.)
That marathon, the 27th of my “career,” was the last marathon I’ll ever run.
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YOU CAN DO MORE!
Last January, I completed the Dopey Challenge at Walt Disney World, 48.6 miles of races over four days ending with the WDW Marathon. It was awesome!
After the race, I continued running, but I also couldn’t ignore discomfort that became very real pain in my left Achilles tendon. (I had surgery on my right Achilles in 2020.) I visited my doctor who shut me down from running and began a rehab program to heal the pain (a small tear) in my Achilles. I stopped running in mid-to-late March. I didn’t run at all in April. And, until today, May 24, I hadn’t run in May.
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Life After 26.2
As I got clobbered on the hills of Pittsburgh on the second half of the marathon in May 2023, I swore that that was my last marathon. I was miserable. I struggled. There is a certain hell that one goes through in the upper miles of a marathon. In that race, my 24th marathon, I’d had it.
I quit marathoning more than a thousand times over the final miles on the unforgiving hills of Pittsburgh.
Only…
I didn’t quit.
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DOPEY!!!
Well, I did it.
I did the Dopey Challenge. 48.6 total miles of running.
On Thursday, January 9, I ran the Walt Disney World 5k
On Friday, January 10, I ran the Walt Disney World 10K
On Saturday, January 11, I ran the Walt Disney World Half-Marathon
and, on Sunday, January 2, I ran the Walt Disney World Marathon.
Four races, each longer than the next, over four days.
I have been wanted to run this series of races for over a decade.
And I did them. All pretty well, too.
Running the half-marathon and the full on consecutive days is Goofy.
Running all four of the races is Dopey.
But it was awesome and great and wonderful.
NYC Marathon Sermon 2024
Each year, at the start of the TCS Marathon, I serve as one of the chaplains who run the Non-Denominational Christian Service for the runners in the Start Village.
The following is the sermon I delivered this year before the big race:
Marathon Sermon 2024
I am going to begin this year’s message with a passage from 1 Corinthians, Chapter 9:
“You know that many runners enter a race, and only one of them wins the prize. So run to win!”
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