Dopey Challenge Training – Week 1: I’m Doing This!

This is the first week of training for the 2022 Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge. RunDisney has not even announced the dates yet and in person races are still up in the air at this point. But I am trying to be optimistic and want to believe by January 2022 life will be normal enough to gather in the Epcot parking lot and cross that start line. 

 

The first week of a training plan is always the best. You’re so full of excitement, the miles are low and you feel like nothing is going to get in your way of training. How naive we are. 

 

 

This time around was a little different and a little bit more difficult. Coming off a year of non-running thanks to COVID. Adding 15 pounds and motivation at an all-time low I was wondering if I was even fit enough to begin a training plan. Then you add in new puppy Baxter and his separation anxiety, plus record breaking temperatures makes outdoor running a near impossibility. 

 

I wanted to do something different and fun for my training videos this year. I spend hours going through past videos to create an intro video that I liked. I also thought it would be fun to add a new segment… we are going to be cooking, but not just any recipes DISNEY RECIPES.  Amazon fed my shopping addiction and delivered enough Disney cookbooks to get me through all my training and then some. 

 

 

I am much slower this year, but I’m not going to get discouraged. Age, weight and sedentary has caused me to fall backwards. But I’m doing the Galloway run-walk-run method, which has gotten my over the finish line of many races and many future races for sure.

 

At the end of the week, Disney announced in-person races will begin again YEAH!!!!, however travel agents are no longer allowed to obtain bibs. My travel agent contacted me with a heavy heart to let me know this, but I’m going to keep training and hope I get in.

 

Join me on my training journey on my way back (hopefully) to Walt Disney World. All my training videos will be on my YouTube channel: Run Run Rosie. Make sure to check it out and hit that subscribe button and follow me for the next 28 weeks.

 

Click here to watch Week #1