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RaceRaves California Promotion

Posted by DoombuggyRunner on January 13, 2015

Posted in: Raffle. Tagged: Bay Area, brazen, Brazen Racing, california, discount, promotion, racerave, Road Runner Sports, running, san francisco.

SF Bay Area runners and Brazen aficionados!

No rest for the wicked and no break for the Brazen – the 2015 race season is upon us! RaceRaves is calling on all members of the Brazen family to share their race experiences. And with this call to arms (or legs) comes an added incentive: every event (including at least one Brazen race) reviewed on RaceRaves between January 8 and January 22, 2015 will double as an entry into a random drawing to win one of the following prizes:

Rave prize (1):

“Early bird” entry to the 2015 Brazen event of your choice
One pair of shoes (up to a $120 value) from Road Runner Sports

Second prize (1): Two $50 vouchers for sports apparel items from Road Runner Sports

Third prize (1): Your choice of a one-year subscription to Trail Runner magazine or Runner’s World magazine, or a two-year subscription to Running Times magazine (approximate retail value $22)

All winners will also receive a RaceRaves tech tee. And everyone who participates will receive, at the end of the promotion, a coupon by email for 10% off a future purchase at any Bay Area Road Runner Sports location (Berkeley, Concord, San Carlos and Campbell).

Here’s how it works: To qualify for the promotion, members must submit a review (= one entry) for a Brazen Racing event on RaceRaves.com between Thursday, Jan 8, 2015 and 11:59pm PDT on Thursday, Jan 22, 2015. Each review for a timed race – Brazen or otherwise – submitted by a qualifying member within this same timeframe will then serve as one (1) entry for the drawing. On Jan 23, 2015, RaceRaves will select the three prize winners by random drawing, and winners will be notified by email. If a winner fails to respond and claim their prize by 11:59pm on Jan 25, 2015, then another winner will be randomly chosen and will secure all the glory and spoils therein.

Every eligible race review will count as an entry – good, bad or indifferent. For other runners looking to discover new races and for race directors looking to improve their events, the most important elements of any review are fairness and honesty. For example, “I ran this race with a stress fracture and appendicitis, worst race EVER” would register low on the “fair review” scale.

The not-so-fine print: Road Runner Sports prize vouchers are redeemable exclusively at the four Bay Area locations listed above. This giveaway is not sponsored by Brazen Racing, Big Stone Publishing or Rodale Inc., and unfortunately for us no money changed hands under the table. Naturally your odds of winning depend on the number of submitted reviews.

Please email us with any questions at iwannarave@raceraves.com.

Visit to Walt Disney Family Museum – Part 2

Posted by DoombuggyRunner on September 29, 2014

Posted in: Disney, Travel. Tagged: disneyland, museum, presidio, san francisco, walt disney, walt disney world.

Welcome back to part two of our tour of the Walt Disney Family Museum. If you started here, be sure to read part one first, as this post will pick up later in Walt’s life, and it is chronologically based.

On the tour, we left off in the late 1930s area of Walt’s life. There was a poster that said it all, “We were in a new business.”

In 1939, The last Silly Symphony, The Ugly Duckling was released. In 1940, two major hits were released, Pinocchio & Fantasia.

The early 40s shows some serious issues that faced Walt. He experienced hardships along the way, but this period of time served to be another rough patch. He deemed this “the toughest part of my life”. There were two crises during this period, one being a 3 month artists’ strike and another being World War II. Red the panel below as it will flesh out the further details.

Artists’ Strike

World War II

Visit to Walt Disney Family Museum – Part 1

Posted by DoombuggyRunner on September 23, 2014

Posted in: Disney, Travel. Tagged: california, Disney, disneyland, epcot, san francisco, walt disney, walt disney family museum.

While we were in San Francisco, it was a big part of our plans to get to the Walt Disney Family Museum. The museum contains the life and legacy of Walt Disney. As Disney-philes, we were excited to tour and experience this exhibit. In the end we spent nearly three hours there and felt like we could have stayed longer.

It is $20 for adults and they give AAA discounts, so be sure to ask.

In trying to put together this post, I realized I had over 500 pictures, and knew I could not post them all. So, I have posted them in an online album, so you can experience everything. Click the link to view all of the pictures.

To get to the museum, we took a bus most of the way from our hotel in the Financial District to the historic district of Presidio. Then we had about a half mile walk. The Walt Disney Family Museum is in Presidio of San Francisco. It is very close to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Upon arriving into the museum, Walt was there to greet us. Well not actually.

Before I start to review the museum, they had a temporary special event in another building honoring the works of Mary Blair. It was actually the last day of the event, so we were glad to have been able to see the display.

Mary Blair was probably one of Walt most prized art director. She worked on some of his most famous works such as Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, & Song of the South. She is also know for her work at the parks, especially It’s A Small World. There is also a large mural in the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World that she is credited with developing. Here is a slideshow of a few of the pictures from the exhibit. There are more in the above online album link.

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After touring the Mary Blair exhibit, we returned to the main museum.

California Vacation – San Francisco

Posted by DoombuggyRunner on September 19, 2014

Posted in: Travel. Tagged: alcatraz, dining, fisherman's wharf, golden gate bridge, hilton financial district, san francisco, tours.

For the final leg of our California vacation, we flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco. In San Francisco is where we spent the remaining three days of our trip. We arrived into San Francisco around 3:30 in the afternoon, and then had to take a 45 minute train ride into the city. This put us getting to the hotel around 4:30. Here are a few shots of our walk from the train station to the hotel.

We started by checking into our hotel at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District. Let me warn you, if you are going to San Francisco, it is an expensive town! Our hotel had 27 floors! We were on the 9th. The room had a neat layout, with a desk overlooking the city.

I think this is the most elevator buttons I have ever seen in a hotel elevator!

After checking into the hotel, we walked about a mile down Columbus Street to Fisherman’s Wharf, where we had dinner at Boudin’s Sourdough. This place was recommended by our friend Sean in Los Angeles, and it was an excellent recommendation. The food was great and the view of Alcatraz and the harbor was amazing. They are known for their sourdough bread. You could get bowls of soup in sourdough, but I had to try the sourdough burger and it was great. Jennifer went with the fish and chips which were also great. Highly recommend!

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