The following is the opening transcript from an interview with an awesomely inspiring Run Disney enthusiast who has been making and wearing amazing Disney-themed costumes on the courses for over ten years. For the whole episode, please click this link.

Robert: Tell me about your history with run Disney.

Cindy: For those of you who haven’t run Disney I would definitely encourage you to consider it uh my my beginning with run Disney started in 2012. Disneyland was offering their inaugural Tinkerbell race the first race that was going to be held at Disneyland during the month of January. As a non-runner, I decided to do it as a as a gift for my upcoming 50th birthday. So this non-experienced, non-runner going out there to run a half marathon because this running bib fell in my lap and I only had 30 days to train…well, I love Disney I’m from Southern Cal so I said, “Sure, why not?”

While I was on the course running through Disneyland I saw where they talk about every mile is Magic. It truly was and it wasn’t only running in the on the course and in the Parks but it was the people around him and it was also the costumes that really touched my heart.

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Originally Published on https://www.yesandexercise.org/

Robert Cochrane, PhD Yes, And...eXercise!

Dr. Robert Cochrane is a graduate of UNLV's Integrated Health Sciences department. He's researching the effect of improvisation and storytelling on Parkinson’s disease. He received grants from the Parkinson's Foundation and support from the Davis Phinney Foundation along the way. He is a popular, unique and high energy Keynote speaker, bringing joy, optimism and practical tools for people in the PD community to thrive today.

He has a background in filmmaking, with the Artisan Entertainment release, The Playaz Court, and two Stephen King-based short films among his credits. His father, Dan, was diagnosed with PD in 2001, which shifted Robert’s artistic lens to health. He made his first documentary, the award-winning Boys of Summer in 2004. There are two follow up films in the series with the fourth film coming in 2023.

He moved his family back to Walnut Creek, CA, where he grew up. He lives there with his beautiful wife, two teenagers who are, indeed, "all that" and is a proud care partner for his amazing parents.