My Breathe Team Story
Cori Moore
Fundraising for 2026 Disneyland® Half Marathon
Cori Moore
There is currently no cure for cystic fibrosis and too many people with CF die young. I’m running to help change that reality.
CF is a genetic, life-shortening disease that devastates the lungs, pancreas, and other vital organs. CF makes it difficult to breathe and fight life-threatening infections, often leading to extensive lung damage and respiratory failure.
Every person born with cystic fibrosis is on a unique journey and experiences this challenging disease differently. While progress has been made, a long road lies ahead for far too many people fighting this terrible disease. We need a cure so that everyone with CF has a better chance to live a long, healthy life.
Will you help us end cystic fibrosis?
By donating to my fundraising goal, you have the power to advance the research and science needed to drive our shared dream forward – a cure for everyone with CF.
Hello, my name is Cori, and I am running the Disneyland Half Marathon for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation — Southern California Chapter.
I am not big on asking for help or even knowing how this works, but the little AI helper droid bot thingy instructed me to tell you all about "myself," and I would like a chance, so here it goes, off to the race.
I started my focused running journey four years ago, and last year I decided to try a Run Disney race in Disneyland. It changed my perspective in many ways and on many things.
First thing, I am a Wogger! Yes, I run, jog, and walk, but my running speed is the same as my tall friends' walking speed. If you get my jest, while they walk next to me, I am wogging (walking/jogging). I feel like I am a runner, but if you see me wogging, understand, my brain is telling me. I am RUNNING!
You are wondering why I started a wogging journey. Because I was in therapy. Isn't this why most people pick up stuff that they thought they would never do, because they needed to go to therapy? Most therapists, while you are in therapy, make suggestions, and you try them, and in my case, it worked. I needed to help my mind slow down, rest, and reflect on my life. I had never had that before. Wogging did that for me, BUT it also helped me learn to BREATHE. I learned to regulate my breathing to maximize my wogging. I am not going to get into all my backstory and the why of therapy. BUT being able to take a BIG BREATH and let it back out is essential for the body to function properly, and I was not using my body effectively, so my mind would not heal. I can say that taking a deep breath healed my mind.
(The little AI is telling me to add my why here, shh AI bot, "The boss is in a roll." I mean, I am running Disney. I need to quote at least one movie, at some point 😊).
I have always noticed the charities and the people running for them at all my races, and I am inspired, especially when they are running for those who can't. You spend (I think) a lot more time in the corrals and waiting in lines at Disney races, (I mean, are you shocked?) It’s Disney!
Any-who, someone explained how charity bibs worked in one of the waiting lines, which made me start thinking about my own wogging journey.
I need to give back, and yes, I have developed a belief that if it is going to happen, it will, and it will be hard but not undoable…IYKYK. Finding a charity for me was hard because it made me tell people about myself and my struggles to bring awareness to a cause, but easy because it found me.
I wanted to get in on a Disney bib for the 2026 run, and I wanted it to mean something to me. You can't help anyone if you don't believe in it, in the first place. There are a lot of good charities and causes running at Disney, and I didn't want to get a bib just to run Disney. Yes, I know that is what a lot of people do, and yes, I have thought about just paying my pledge and not asking or telling anyone about this, but then I am not really helping, in my opinion. I am just buying my way, feeling like I am helping and still hiding from everything I have been going through, which helps no one enhance their life, including me.
Taking a deep breath and learning to calm down has helped regulate my life in a way I can’t explain, something that simple is so healing.
That is why I want to help people with Cystic Fibrosis. It is a hereditary genetic disorder that causes a person to be unable to take a deep breath, basically.
I’m sure everyone reading this has held their breath, been short of breath, been breathless, and didn’t take a breath to relax when they needed to. The list goes on and on and on.
I am someone who spent my life holding my breath, only to realize, in my forties, to just breathe.
I want to help other people get breath into their bodies. It is a simple ask, or I think it is. I just want to help. I don’t know anyone with CF. For me, and what feels like a new chapter and life, simply asking for simple things is the key.
I can’t think of a better charity bib to be a part of than the Breath Team at Disneyland.
I will leave you with my wogging goals…I am going for a 2:2:2:2 wogging year.
2= Full marathons
2=Half marathons
2=10k
2= 5 k
The significance of the number two is the secret I get to keep. You don’t have to tell everyone everything. You get to keep a piece of you for YOU always.
I would love for you to pledge and donate anything you can and just hope to see a “2” in the number. I am an accountant by trade, so I like numbers and the many combos they can make 😉!
CF is a genetic, life-shortening disease that devastates the lungs, pancreas, and other vital organs. CF makes it difficult to breathe and fight life-threatening infections, often leading to extensive lung damage and respiratory failure.
Every person born with cystic fibrosis is on a unique journey and experiences this challenging disease differently. While progress has been made, a long road lies ahead for far too many people fighting this terrible disease. We need a cure so that everyone with CF has a better chance to live a long, healthy life.
Will you help us end cystic fibrosis?
By donating to my fundraising goal, you have the power to advance the research and science needed to drive our shared dream forward – a cure for everyone with CF.
Hello, my name is Cori, and I am running the Disneyland Half Marathon for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation — Southern California Chapter.
I am not big on asking for help or even knowing how this works, but the little AI helper droid bot thingy instructed me to tell you all about "myself," and I would like a chance, so here it goes, off to the race.
I started my focused running journey four years ago, and last year I decided to try a Run Disney race in Disneyland. It changed my perspective in many ways and on many things.
First thing, I am a Wogger! Yes, I run, jog, and walk, but my running speed is the same as my tall friends' walking speed. If you get my jest, while they walk next to me, I am wogging (walking/jogging). I feel like I am a runner, but if you see me wogging, understand, my brain is telling me. I am RUNNING!
You are wondering why I started a wogging journey. Because I was in therapy. Isn't this why most people pick up stuff that they thought they would never do, because they needed to go to therapy? Most therapists, while you are in therapy, make suggestions, and you try them, and in my case, it worked. I needed to help my mind slow down, rest, and reflect on my life. I had never had that before. Wogging did that for me, BUT it also helped me learn to BREATHE. I learned to regulate my breathing to maximize my wogging. I am not going to get into all my backstory and the why of therapy. BUT being able to take a BIG BREATH and let it back out is essential for the body to function properly, and I was not using my body effectively, so my mind would not heal. I can say that taking a deep breath healed my mind.
(The little AI is telling me to add my why here, shh AI bot, "The boss is in a roll." I mean, I am running Disney. I need to quote at least one movie, at some point 😊).
I have always noticed the charities and the people running for them at all my races, and I am inspired, especially when they are running for those who can't. You spend (I think) a lot more time in the corrals and waiting in lines at Disney races, (I mean, are you shocked?) It’s Disney!
Any-who, someone explained how charity bibs worked in one of the waiting lines, which made me start thinking about my own wogging journey.
I need to give back, and yes, I have developed a belief that if it is going to happen, it will, and it will be hard but not undoable…IYKYK. Finding a charity for me was hard because it made me tell people about myself and my struggles to bring awareness to a cause, but easy because it found me.
I wanted to get in on a Disney bib for the 2026 run, and I wanted it to mean something to me. You can't help anyone if you don't believe in it, in the first place. There are a lot of good charities and causes running at Disney, and I didn't want to get a bib just to run Disney. Yes, I know that is what a lot of people do, and yes, I have thought about just paying my pledge and not asking or telling anyone about this, but then I am not really helping, in my opinion. I am just buying my way, feeling like I am helping and still hiding from everything I have been going through, which helps no one enhance their life, including me.
Taking a deep breath and learning to calm down has helped regulate my life in a way I can’t explain, something that simple is so healing.
That is why I want to help people with Cystic Fibrosis. It is a hereditary genetic disorder that causes a person to be unable to take a deep breath, basically.
I’m sure everyone reading this has held their breath, been short of breath, been breathless, and didn’t take a breath to relax when they needed to. The list goes on and on and on.
I am someone who spent my life holding my breath, only to realize, in my forties, to just breathe.
I want to help other people get breath into their bodies. It is a simple ask, or I think it is. I just want to help. I don’t know anyone with CF. For me, and what feels like a new chapter and life, simply asking for simple things is the key.
I can’t think of a better charity bib to be a part of than the Breath Team at Disneyland.
I will leave you with my wogging goals…I am going for a 2:2:2:2 wogging year.
2= Full marathons
2=Half marathons
2=10k
2= 5 k
The significance of the number two is the secret I get to keep. You don’t have to tell everyone everything. You get to keep a piece of you for YOU always.
I would love for you to pledge and donate anything you can and just hope to see a “2” in the number. I am an accountant by trade, so I like numbers and the many combos they can make 😉!
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