As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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If you are following a proper program (which of course you are!) then trust the program. It might seem crazy to you now to think that you'll be running for 20 minutes in like... a week!!! But those C25K plans are tried and tested, and a LOT of people have a ton of success with them. And as you said, when you think it out, then you logically get there in smaller steps in the next few runs.
I'm getting better at trusting it I think...but I'm quite a cynic by nature so it doesn't come easily! It helps that the C25K group I'm in on Facebook has people at all different stages, so I often read accounts of people saying "I never thought I could run 3/5/8/20/30/etc minutes, but today I did!" and that's very encouraging. It's also nice that I see the posts of people behind me in the process, worrying about moving on to their next week and am able to tell them my experience and try to give them confidence. 'Pay it forwards' and all that!
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Also, like Tanya said, there are a lot of people that use a run/walk/run method (most popularized by Jeff Galloway). As Tanya also mentioned, I don't personally use walk breaks, when I start running I run continuously... which is partly my personality coming into play. When I had to incorporate walk breaks into my return to running this spring it was difficult for me to stop running...and at some points I actually would forget to stop, I'd have gotten into a nice running groove, maybe enjoying the song that was playing...whatever the reason
I looked at his website and it really surprised me - like I mentioned before, I assumed that what I would till now have called 'proper runners' (i.e. anyone more competent at it than me) would see walk breaks as admitting defeat and avoid them unless they got injured along the way or something. I never would have guessed that there is such a big well-known programme based around it. But then, I guess that when you watch a marathon on TV (London for example), the footage is all over the place so you'd never notice people walking and obviously way more people do it than I'd realised.
I think at least part of it stems back to PE experiences in school – I remember being fairly okay at sprinting, but terrible at cross country...I’d always be the one walking at the back with a stitch, and with the teacher trying to urge me to run. It wouldn’t surprise me if psychologically that put me off trying to take up running for a very long time, as some sort of subconscious rebellion against those teachers. And it would also explain why I have always (till now!) seen walk breaks as being a failure to run, rather than an opportunity to recharge...it’s because the implications in those lessons was that if you’re at the back walking then you’re failing. Oooh...deep!!
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So if it was ME, I'd try constant running without walk breaks...see how you like it, and how it works for you...but know that if you still have a need to incorporate walk breaks, you'll still be a runner, and part of a LARGE group that uses that technique to cover long distances, and in some cases, rather quickly. My guide for the 2014 Marathon (who is a 3:06 marathoner himself) regularly runs with a lady that runs a 3:30 marathon while using a run/walk/run technique.
I would definitely like to be able to run constantly - for 30 minutes at the very least but ideally for whole race distances. Nothing Olympic-standard, I'd just like to be able to do my funny little bobbling pace without having to stop and walk (especially given that a fast walk is probably faster than my run pace anyway!). So I'm going to aim for that, but know that it is Officially Okay to walk if I really need to.
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Its also great to hear that your husband got out too...how did he find his first foray into running
Somewhat annoyingly, he was both faster AND less out of breath than me! His base fitness is clearly better than mine, despite the extra weight he carries around. I can't say I'm not pleased though - if he had struggled then there would be a huge chance he'd give up on it, so I was relieved! Not that he coasted...he did push himself (as much as the short intervals of Week 1 allow), and he came again for run #2 so it can't have been too bad!
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