LIVIN' IT UP, love that feeling! and feeling Goofy - Jan 2014! Complete! 6/21
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DisneyKid4Life
DIS Veteran
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Wow OKW sure is purdy. Of course seeing Mickey heads everywhere is necessary for any start to the morning... as is Stacey. 
OMG how cute is he all ready to run his first race???????
AND OMG Mickey in his track uniform. I'm a total sucker for characters that are not in their normal outfits.
I had no idea they did kids races. That is just the cutest thing. Yes, I'm using the word cute a lot, but it's just so appropriate. Congratulations on him finishing his first race.
OMG how cute is he all ready to run his first race???????
AND OMG Mickey in his track uniform. I'm a total sucker for characters that are not in their normal outfits.
I had no idea they did kids races. That is just the cutest thing. Yes, I'm using the word cute a lot, but it's just so appropriate. Congratulations on him finishing his first race.
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
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- Aug 10, 2012
Newbie Disney runner here......since doing the Jingle Jungle 5k, I feel like I've become a bit of an addict, at least of everything Disney race related. I am doing the Royal Family 5k at Princess weekend as well, but I'm recovering from an injury and, as a fairly new runner, it's taken quite a toll on me, so I'm not sure how its going to go.
Looking forward to hearing more about your trip and the races.
Well everything Disney race related is 100% pure AWESOME FUN! So not a bad thing to be addicted to.
Hopefully you recover from your injury before Princess Half!!
Duh
Well I could...that would save moi a lot of time but.
I know. Pint sized runDisney stuff >>
And Mickey had his name on the back of the jacket.
Wow OKW sure is purdy. Of course seeing Mickey heads everywhere is necessary for any start to the morning... as is Stacey.
OMG how cute is he all ready to run his first race???????
AND OMG Mickey in his track uniform. I'm a total sucker for characters that are not in their normal outfits.
I had no idea they did kids races. That is just the cutest thing. Yes, I'm using the word cute a lot, but it's just so appropriate. Congratulations on him finishing his first race.
Of course. Every morning needs to start like that.
I agree...characters in special outfits are better than everyday attire.
YES! Every runDisney event has kids races! It can be a family affair! Yes, you are but that's ok because the whole morning was CUTEEEEEEE
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
Great update!
Thanks!!
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
January 10, 2014
Pool lounging and steel drums
Before we begin, for those of you keeping count at home.
Medal count: 1/7
Annie and I were going to go to Typhoon Lagoon, but it was already kinda late so we decided on just heading to the main pool with the rest of the crew.
We got back to OKW, and headed to the room.
We changed into our bathing suits and headed back out to the pool.
Get on my level.
I brought along my refillable mug 'cause duh, and my newly purchased 2014 WDW Marathon Weekend water bottle ft. straw because it was time to HYDRATE HYDRATE HYDRATE! #runnerprobs
I went swimming for a bit and rode the slide like 7 times. And of course took some more pictures. And filled up the mug. The usual.
Pool lounging and steel drums
After I was done swimming, I decided to chill by the pool for a bit and catch up on my TR journal and check the Twittersphere and emails.
I got another relevant Runners World quote email again today
"Good things come slow, especially in distance running."
Precisely my goal for the next two days.
I also RTed something that another Disney enthusient/runner RTed.
TO ALL THE MARATHONERS: I DID A 1/10384929292 K MARATHON THIS MORNING; I GOT UP AND WALKED TO THE BATHROOM.
I headed back to the room to charge my camera and shower and change to get ready for dinner. I left Annie sleeping by the pool LOL
Pool lounging and steel drums
Before we begin, for those of you keeping count at home.
Medal count: 1/7
Annie and I were going to go to Typhoon Lagoon, but it was already kinda late so we decided on just heading to the main pool with the rest of the crew.
We got back to OKW, and headed to the room.
We changed into our bathing suits and headed back out to the pool.
Get on my level.
I brought along my refillable mug 'cause duh, and my newly purchased 2014 WDW Marathon Weekend water bottle ft. straw because it was time to HYDRATE HYDRATE HYDRATE! #runnerprobs
I went swimming for a bit and rode the slide like 7 times. And of course took some more pictures. And filled up the mug. The usual.
Pool lounging and steel drums
After I was done swimming, I decided to chill by the pool for a bit and catch up on my TR journal and check the Twittersphere and emails.
I got another relevant Runners World quote email again today
"Good things come slow, especially in distance running."
Precisely my goal for the next two days.
I also RTed something that another Disney enthusient/runner RTed.
TO ALL THE MARATHONERS: I DID A 1/10384929292 K MARATHON THIS MORNING; I GOT UP AND WALKED TO THE BATHROOM.
I headed back to the room to charge my camera and shower and change to get ready for dinner. I left Annie sleeping by the pool LOL
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
January 10, 2014
Why didn't we get bread?
Annie eventually woke up and made it back to the room. After I showered and changed, I managed to remember to put my pins in my bag. Up until now, I kept forgetting them. This was my first time going to WDW as a pin trader (new thing #2), but since I kept forgetting them...I thought maybe I wasnt meant to be.
We headed back out to the Hospitality House.
We had some time to kill before our first ADR of the trip so we headed to the Hospitality House to see the pin board...since I actually remembered them and all. I asked to see the board and made my first pin trades ever! I traded for a baby Yeti and a Pooh face.
First pin trades ever!!
After trading, we went into the General Store and picked out a bunch of things I wanted.
We checked in for Olivias about 15 minutes early. It was dead in there, so they seated us. We were seated in a booth and it was exactly where I pictured this meal taking place.
Dinner at Olivia's #butIdonteatfish
We were the only ones in the restaurant for a good 10 minutes. I hadn't been to Olivias in years!! It wasn't even originally on the ADR list when I first made the ADR's. I decided I wanted to eat at my home resort's restaurant, and Annie was down for a pre-race dinner date so. I think the last time I was there they still had character breakfast there.
Eventually other people were seated, and that's when we noticed that everyone else was getting bread, but not us! We wondered what did we have to order to get bread! Even from far away, I could tell it was some type of 'Ohana bread. I wanted bread! Carbs carbs carbs!
I already knew what I was ordering (just like with the rest of my ADR's). I got the pulled pork sandwich with fries and Annie got a burger. The pulled pork was really good! It tasted like summer in ma mouth. The bread was really fresh, and it had the perfect amount of meat to bread ratio, because sometimes it can be too much and it makes it difficult to eat. And those are my thoughts.
Dessert was definitely on my mind. I ordered the Key Lime pie tart. I figured, the entire resort is based off of Key West, Florida, the key lime pie should be great!!
The key lime pie tart at Olivia's Cafe is A-MA-ZING
Phenomenal. The first thing I did was critique the crust by telling Annie it was the perfect graham cracker crust because it tasted just like my graham cracker crust. #bakerslife
This is where we learned that I am not a good food critic...but I am a good dessert critic.
Even the mango and raspberry sauces that were used as garnish were really good! And thats coming from someone who tends not to like that stuff.
So obviously I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS TART!
But I also split the raspberry sauce on my camera #whereismybib
After I stuffed my face with the amazingness that is key lime pie tart, we paid, peed (#hydratehydratehydrate) and went over to the ferry boat for DTD. The captain was JUST closing the door to the boat when he told us to hop the rope and get on.
CMs >>
This DTD ferry ride felt so much better than all the times I took the ferry last trip. I felt like I was on the snail boats every time last trip. The captain was very entertaining too. I was checking out the medals from the people on board who ran the 10K that morning.
As we were docking, the captain asked How many of you are marathoners? And I raised my hand proudly. It feels SO good to be able to say that. I may not be a Disney marathoner yet, but I am a marathoner and that is one of my proudest accomplishments.
I JUST LOVE CAST MEMBERS
We met up with half the crew. They were in Curl, but I HAD to go into Fit2Run for obvious reasons.
Didn't exactly wow me after I saw the beauty that is a runDisney expo, but a running store to DTD is a big plus in my book.
Then we went over to Curl. Craig was trying on some bathing suits. We looked around for a bit and chased after AJ while Craig was making purchases. We split up since they were going off to dinner at Bongo's. So Annie and I headed over to the Marketplace because I wanted to make a shirt at Design-A-Tee since I finally thought of something funny to put on it.
We went to Design-A-Tee and I went over to a station. I wanted a Princess on it...obviously, but I saw they had some Marathon logos so I decided on a pink shirt with the marathon logo since it went well with what I was getting printed on it. The shirt says "The why did I sign up for this race trip." since that seemed to be the synopsis PRIOR to actually running. I also put at the bottom #whereismybib
You saw that # before with a dinner tweet. But the CM told me she couldn't do the hash tag and appologized SO much to me about it. I just removed the hashtag and added spaces but no ? after it.
Per the CM, they can't do hash tags because it is promoting something not Disney. Ok, that's fine and all I get it...but like what about #DisneySide ??
Or how runDisney always tweets out the hash tags prior to a race weekend to try and get them trending.
I totally understand why she had me remove the tag and I wasn't arguing with her or giving her a hard time or anything. I was just thinking about it after I left. Right there on each computer screen at the top it says that Disney has the right to modify or remove something it finds offensive, so I was just thinking why couldn't they do that with a hash tag too? Just a thought. It didn't make or break my shirt design.
Anyway...the whole where is my bib thing was serving double duty for my Twin's and mine joke AND it was a play on the word bib for race bib. It's funny to me and that's all that matters.
It was about 6:45ish at the time, and the CM said it would be ready for pick-up at 7:30. I didn't feel like waiting around until then because I/we wanted to get back early since we had to get up at like 3am the next day. So I decided on having it shipped it back to my resort. It wouldn't be ready for pick-up until Sunday after 4. Makes sense?
Can't wait to get my shirt from Design-A-Tee
After, Annie and I went to look in all the shops again. I found the Minnie Mouse Rapunzel so I had to buy.
For my twin.
I really wanted a stuffed animal but I pretty much have everyone that I wanted. I'm five.
I wanted a bunch of other stuff too, but I decided to just not get anything because I didn't wanna spend all my money within my first 2 days there. We decided soon after to head back to the room. We just got on the bus at 7:30 so I was like...wow I could have picked up my shirt.
I RTed
@runDisney Rest up for tomorrow's #WDWHalf! See you bright & early.
When we got back to the room, I took a shower and laid out ALL my things for the race in the morning.
I went downstairs and borrowed The Stick that Craig bought at the expo. Kris and Craig both said that The Stick salesman was really good at his job! LOL! But really, I am going to buy one eventually. It definitely helped with the soreness I was experience from carrying around my backpack.
Sleeping in my race clothes #livinituplovethatfeeling #runnerprobs
Grandma status bedtime for the #WDWHalf tomorrow. AND I'M MEETING MY TWIN NBD @LifeDis
I shut my phone off at about 9:45 and was in bed by 10...but of course I don't fall asleep until 11. I think I was nervous for the next day.
Why didn't we get bread?
Annie eventually woke up and made it back to the room. After I showered and changed, I managed to remember to put my pins in my bag. Up until now, I kept forgetting them. This was my first time going to WDW as a pin trader (new thing #2), but since I kept forgetting them...I thought maybe I wasnt meant to be.
We headed back out to the Hospitality House.
We had some time to kill before our first ADR of the trip so we headed to the Hospitality House to see the pin board...since I actually remembered them and all. I asked to see the board and made my first pin trades ever! I traded for a baby Yeti and a Pooh face.
First pin trades ever!!
After trading, we went into the General Store and picked out a bunch of things I wanted.
We checked in for Olivias about 15 minutes early. It was dead in there, so they seated us. We were seated in a booth and it was exactly where I pictured this meal taking place.
Dinner at Olivia's #butIdonteatfish
We were the only ones in the restaurant for a good 10 minutes. I hadn't been to Olivias in years!! It wasn't even originally on the ADR list when I first made the ADR's. I decided I wanted to eat at my home resort's restaurant, and Annie was down for a pre-race dinner date so. I think the last time I was there they still had character breakfast there.
Eventually other people were seated, and that's when we noticed that everyone else was getting bread, but not us! We wondered what did we have to order to get bread! Even from far away, I could tell it was some type of 'Ohana bread. I wanted bread! Carbs carbs carbs!
I already knew what I was ordering (just like with the rest of my ADR's). I got the pulled pork sandwich with fries and Annie got a burger. The pulled pork was really good! It tasted like summer in ma mouth. The bread was really fresh, and it had the perfect amount of meat to bread ratio, because sometimes it can be too much and it makes it difficult to eat. And those are my thoughts.
Dessert was definitely on my mind. I ordered the Key Lime pie tart. I figured, the entire resort is based off of Key West, Florida, the key lime pie should be great!!
The key lime pie tart at Olivia's Cafe is A-MA-ZING
Phenomenal. The first thing I did was critique the crust by telling Annie it was the perfect graham cracker crust because it tasted just like my graham cracker crust. #bakerslife
This is where we learned that I am not a good food critic...but I am a good dessert critic.
Even the mango and raspberry sauces that were used as garnish were really good! And thats coming from someone who tends not to like that stuff.
So obviously I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS TART!
But I also split the raspberry sauce on my camera #whereismybib
After I stuffed my face with the amazingness that is key lime pie tart, we paid, peed (#hydratehydratehydrate) and went over to the ferry boat for DTD. The captain was JUST closing the door to the boat when he told us to hop the rope and get on.
CMs >>
This DTD ferry ride felt so much better than all the times I took the ferry last trip. I felt like I was on the snail boats every time last trip. The captain was very entertaining too. I was checking out the medals from the people on board who ran the 10K that morning.
As we were docking, the captain asked How many of you are marathoners? And I raised my hand proudly. It feels SO good to be able to say that. I may not be a Disney marathoner yet, but I am a marathoner and that is one of my proudest accomplishments.
I JUST LOVE CAST MEMBERS
We met up with half the crew. They were in Curl, but I HAD to go into Fit2Run for obvious reasons.
Didn't exactly wow me after I saw the beauty that is a runDisney expo, but a running store to DTD is a big plus in my book.
Then we went over to Curl. Craig was trying on some bathing suits. We looked around for a bit and chased after AJ while Craig was making purchases. We split up since they were going off to dinner at Bongo's. So Annie and I headed over to the Marketplace because I wanted to make a shirt at Design-A-Tee since I finally thought of something funny to put on it.
We went to Design-A-Tee and I went over to a station. I wanted a Princess on it...obviously, but I saw they had some Marathon logos so I decided on a pink shirt with the marathon logo since it went well with what I was getting printed on it. The shirt says "The why did I sign up for this race trip." since that seemed to be the synopsis PRIOR to actually running. I also put at the bottom #whereismybib
You saw that # before with a dinner tweet. But the CM told me she couldn't do the hash tag and appologized SO much to me about it. I just removed the hashtag and added spaces but no ? after it.
Per the CM, they can't do hash tags because it is promoting something not Disney. Ok, that's fine and all I get it...but like what about #DisneySide ??
Or how runDisney always tweets out the hash tags prior to a race weekend to try and get them trending.
I totally understand why she had me remove the tag and I wasn't arguing with her or giving her a hard time or anything. I was just thinking about it after I left. Right there on each computer screen at the top it says that Disney has the right to modify or remove something it finds offensive, so I was just thinking why couldn't they do that with a hash tag too? Just a thought. It didn't make or break my shirt design.
Anyway...the whole where is my bib thing was serving double duty for my Twin's and mine joke AND it was a play on the word bib for race bib. It's funny to me and that's all that matters.
It was about 6:45ish at the time, and the CM said it would be ready for pick-up at 7:30. I didn't feel like waiting around until then because I/we wanted to get back early since we had to get up at like 3am the next day. So I decided on having it shipped it back to my resort. It wouldn't be ready for pick-up until Sunday after 4. Makes sense?
Can't wait to get my shirt from Design-A-Tee
After, Annie and I went to look in all the shops again. I found the Minnie Mouse Rapunzel so I had to buy.
For my twin.
I really wanted a stuffed animal but I pretty much have everyone that I wanted. I'm five.
I wanted a bunch of other stuff too, but I decided to just not get anything because I didn't wanna spend all my money within my first 2 days there. We decided soon after to head back to the room. We just got on the bus at 7:30 so I was like...wow I could have picked up my shirt.
I RTed
@runDisney Rest up for tomorrow's #WDWHalf! See you bright & early.
When we got back to the room, I took a shower and laid out ALL my things for the race in the morning.
I went downstairs and borrowed The Stick that Craig bought at the expo. Kris and Craig both said that The Stick salesman was really good at his job! LOL! But really, I am going to buy one eventually. It definitely helped with the soreness I was experience from carrying around my backpack.
Sleeping in my race clothes #livinituplovethatfeeling #runnerprobs
Grandma status bedtime for the #WDWHalf tomorrow. AND I'M MEETING MY TWIN NBD @LifeDis
I shut my phone off at about 9:45 and was in bed by 10...but of course I don't fall asleep until 11. I think I was nervous for the next day.
DisneyKid4Life
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2013
AHH I now wish I had gone for the purple Magic Mug. I got orange to match my Magic Band because apparently I like to coordinate... not that there's anything wrong with that.
What a great relaxing day. I can't wait to hear all about the race.
What a great relaxing day. I can't wait to hear all about the race.
LifeIsDis
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Joined
- May 22, 2012
Twin, your pics are perf just sayin.
Your punzie towel >>>>
The amount of pin trading we are going to do in June is going to be ridiculous.
Still cant believe they didnt give you the semi similar Ohana bread. HOW RUDE.
Idk why they couldnt do a hashtag on the shirt.
OMG WE SHOULD MAKE SHIRTS IN JUNE.
But my BCFs >>>
OMG THE NEXT DAY
And um I like the use of wicked in your countdown
Your punzie towel >>>>
The amount of pin trading we are going to do in June is going to be ridiculous.
Still cant believe they didnt give you the semi similar Ohana bread. HOW RUDE.
Idk why they couldnt do a hashtag on the shirt.
OMG WE SHOULD MAKE SHIRTS IN JUNE.
But my BCFs >>>
OMG THE NEXT DAY
And um I like the use of wicked in your countdown
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
Coordinating >>>
But that being said, prbably a good thing you got the orange becuase I didn't see an orange mug ANYWHERE!!! Only green and purple
AHHH THANK YOU!
We can have cool towels together in June
Need to buy a lot. Need money for that.
RUDE IS RIGHT!!!
Unfortunately we communicate in hash too much so we need to figure out what our shirt will say cuz DUH WE ARE MAKING A SHIRT!
ALMOST THERE
um I told you I was copying it.
The Key Lime tart looks amazing!!!!! I want it now hahahaha
Also I find that really weird that they can't do the hashtag since it's not even twitter exclusive and it's not like disney is competing with twitter with it's theme parks or a social media site.
I highly suggest a trip to go get it...like right now. I mean, look at it!!! .....I love dessert.
True! Hashtags are like a thing now a days, on and off line, why can't you just monitor it like you would the rest of the shirt?! I'm wasn't that upset over it...but just...COME ON #DISNEYSIDE is my argument.
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
Thanks!!
Tehe, thank you! They were a cheap, ugly pair of espadrilles...then I painted them and voila! Ugly no more!
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
January 11, 2014
"Beware: Wicked witch of the north soon to arrive in Sunshine state"
I woke up a few times during the night. Whomp. The last time came at 2:45. Our alarm would be going off in 15 minutes. As Annie was coming out of the bathroom, I said to her "I'm taking those last 15 minutes." She agreed. But it was pointless for me to try and sleep those last few minutes, so I turned on my phone.
I had a voice mail.
I played it and it was cut off and was playing the last 15 or so seconds.
It was from JetBlue.
I could make out something about "the departing airport has been changed."
What?!
I went into my email and pulled up the last email I had from JetBlue for my mom's flight. Everything was as it should be. I copied the confirmation number and opened the JetBlue app. I put in her confirmation number.
And
Her departing airport changed from Westchester County
to
JFK
fedsfewsgvrverbfrsdfdswekjfdmz
JFK is twice as far as Westchester for us.
Woke up 2 a voicemail from JetBlue saying that my moms flight changed from Westchester to JFK. 8.5 hours before her flight. ARE U KIDDIN MOI
I checked the voice mail time, and yes 8.5 hours before her flight they called to tell us.
I gave her a nice wake up call at 3am to tell her this lovely piece of information.
Our conversation went something like this:
Me: Your flight changed to JFK.
Mom: "No."
Me: "Yes."
Mom: "No!"
Me: "Yes!"
We soon hung up since I had to get ready and she was getting on the phone to make her calls. Oh poor mom. I was seriously freaking out thinking, how the hell was she getting here now!?
As frustrating as that was to wake up to at 3am, focus had to shift. I had a race ahead of me and a third of Goofy to tackle.
I slept in my sports bra, my race tank, and spandex.
I put on my running shorts and put Vaseline on my toes*
*Race tip: To prevent chaffing, spread a thin layer or Vaseline or Body Glide around chaff prone areas. I have been using it on my toes that get prone to blisters on longer runs for over a year now and I don't recall a blister since.
I put my socks and shoes on. I brushed my teeth, put my hair up, and put on sunscreen. I attached my bib to my shirt and loaded up my race belt and put that on. Last thing, was I sprayed this silver glitter...aka pixie dust in my hair.
Annie and I left the room at about 3:15 and were walking with a nice gentleman, but and I do not remember what we were talking about specially regarding the races.
We got to the Hospitality House and there were probably like at least 5 buses all lined up. I'm assuming that each bus would depart every 10-15 minutes to the starting area. We hoped on the first bus and grabbed a seat. Very soon, we were off to Epcot!
Up way too early for my first ever @runDisney event!!!!!
On our way to the #WDWHalf
Magic Kingdom see ya real soon
While on the bus, with all the horror of mom's flight being changed, I realized that we forgot to grab a bagel! Oh no!! I was hoping there would maybe be some food once we got there
We got to Epcot and unloaded. Mom decided now was a good time to call me in response to my text to her about how the flight situation was going. I managed to hear something about some incompetent person was on the other end of the phone and kept telling her flights out of JFK. After she changed to a flight out of JFK, she called back and asked about LaGuardia. It's closer than JFK, and while not by much....traffic makes it closer than JFK. As she was trying to talk to me, there was music playing and a lot of other commotion going on and I think she thought that was us making noise in the room. I was like uhh mom I'm at the race.
We made it through bag check (if you have a race belt on like we did, they will need to check that because it has a zipper) and we were through and in the staging area (Wonder lot). All the way over in the corner they had some type of stage (not to sure, because I couldn't see) with loud music and dancing playing to pump us up.
We were on a hunt for food since we forgot to get something in the room. Normally (big) races have at least bagels or something before. No dice. I was nervous about that. I never run on an empty stomach, especially a long distance like a half marathon! I remember this one time I did an early morning run once time last winter, and I had a huge bowl of cereal before I went. By the time I was almost done with my 7.2 miles, I was at that so hungry you feel like you are going to throw up feeling.
We were a little confused as to where we had to go or do or line up. There were tents set up with flags outside each with about 2 corrals letters on each. The tent said gEAR bag check. We decided to split up here and go wait near our respective corral letters. I sat down and tied my shoes properly and did some people watching. There was this one set of girls that walked by all in Minnie Mouse polka dotted tutus ..and matching bras. Regular bras.
I made a face when I saw the regular bras and a girl sitting next to me saw me and looked at me and said "yeah!"
Ok.
Eventually they made an announcement to start walking towards the starting area. We passed through the gear bag tents (which was just bag check. There was no need for Annie and myself to split up) On the other side were tons of porta-potties and a water table right before the road you would take to the starting area. I grabbed a cup of water and we started the walk.
Some people complain and say it's a bit of a walk. It really wasn't that bad. Of course there was entertainment on the route. At one point, they have a huge highway sign indicating which corrals go where at an intersection. A-G was to the left and the rest were to the right. After I turned left, it was not far at all to the corrals. Again there were a ton of porta-potties. I made the walk towards D and they check to make sure you are entering the correct corral. I headed up towards the front of the corral and sat down next to the railing.
I was waiting for a bit but I was sitting and it wasn't cold so no complaints. It was really warm out. They do a great job of keeping you entertained with music and stuff! It feels like a pre-baseball game. Disney does it right.
I can see the start from my corral
Ready for the #WDWHalf
There's a Captain EO standing next to me #WDWHalf #disneypeoplearethebestpeople
As soon as I tweeted that, Captain EO turned to me and said "I like the glitter in your hair."
I thanked him and told him I loved the whole outfit. Something tells me it wasn't his choice to wear it.
It was almost time to start. Mickey, Goofy and obviously Donald came out to wish us luck!
"Beware: Wicked witch of the north soon to arrive in Sunshine state"
I woke up a few times during the night. Whomp. The last time came at 2:45. Our alarm would be going off in 15 minutes. As Annie was coming out of the bathroom, I said to her "I'm taking those last 15 minutes." She agreed. But it was pointless for me to try and sleep those last few minutes, so I turned on my phone.
I had a voice mail.
I played it and it was cut off and was playing the last 15 or so seconds.
It was from JetBlue.
I could make out something about "the departing airport has been changed."
What?!
I went into my email and pulled up the last email I had from JetBlue for my mom's flight. Everything was as it should be. I copied the confirmation number and opened the JetBlue app. I put in her confirmation number.
And
Her departing airport changed from Westchester County
to
JFK
fedsfewsgvrverbfrsdfdswekjfdmz
JFK is twice as far as Westchester for us.
Woke up 2 a voicemail from JetBlue saying that my moms flight changed from Westchester to JFK. 8.5 hours before her flight. ARE U KIDDIN MOI
I checked the voice mail time, and yes 8.5 hours before her flight they called to tell us.
I gave her a nice wake up call at 3am to tell her this lovely piece of information.
Our conversation went something like this:
Me: Your flight changed to JFK.
Mom: "No."
Me: "Yes."
Mom: "No!"
Me: "Yes!"
We soon hung up since I had to get ready and she was getting on the phone to make her calls. Oh poor mom. I was seriously freaking out thinking, how the hell was she getting here now!?
As frustrating as that was to wake up to at 3am, focus had to shift. I had a race ahead of me and a third of Goofy to tackle.
I slept in my sports bra, my race tank, and spandex.
I put on my running shorts and put Vaseline on my toes*
*Race tip: To prevent chaffing, spread a thin layer or Vaseline or Body Glide around chaff prone areas. I have been using it on my toes that get prone to blisters on longer runs for over a year now and I don't recall a blister since.
I put my socks and shoes on. I brushed my teeth, put my hair up, and put on sunscreen. I attached my bib to my shirt and loaded up my race belt and put that on. Last thing, was I sprayed this silver glitter...aka pixie dust in my hair.
Annie and I left the room at about 3:15 and were walking with a nice gentleman, but and I do not remember what we were talking about specially regarding the races.
We got to the Hospitality House and there were probably like at least 5 buses all lined up. I'm assuming that each bus would depart every 10-15 minutes to the starting area. We hoped on the first bus and grabbed a seat. Very soon, we were off to Epcot!
Up way too early for my first ever @runDisney event!!!!!
On our way to the #WDWHalf
Magic Kingdom see ya real soon
While on the bus, with all the horror of mom's flight being changed, I realized that we forgot to grab a bagel! Oh no!! I was hoping there would maybe be some food once we got there
We got to Epcot and unloaded. Mom decided now was a good time to call me in response to my text to her about how the flight situation was going. I managed to hear something about some incompetent person was on the other end of the phone and kept telling her flights out of JFK. After she changed to a flight out of JFK, she called back and asked about LaGuardia. It's closer than JFK, and while not by much....traffic makes it closer than JFK. As she was trying to talk to me, there was music playing and a lot of other commotion going on and I think she thought that was us making noise in the room. I was like uhh mom I'm at the race.
We made it through bag check (if you have a race belt on like we did, they will need to check that because it has a zipper) and we were through and in the staging area (Wonder lot). All the way over in the corner they had some type of stage (not to sure, because I couldn't see) with loud music and dancing playing to pump us up.
We were on a hunt for food since we forgot to get something in the room. Normally (big) races have at least bagels or something before. No dice. I was nervous about that. I never run on an empty stomach, especially a long distance like a half marathon! I remember this one time I did an early morning run once time last winter, and I had a huge bowl of cereal before I went. By the time I was almost done with my 7.2 miles, I was at that so hungry you feel like you are going to throw up feeling.
We were a little confused as to where we had to go or do or line up. There were tents set up with flags outside each with about 2 corrals letters on each. The tent said gEAR bag check. We decided to split up here and go wait near our respective corral letters. I sat down and tied my shoes properly and did some people watching. There was this one set of girls that walked by all in Minnie Mouse polka dotted tutus ..and matching bras. Regular bras.
I made a face when I saw the regular bras and a girl sitting next to me saw me and looked at me and said "yeah!"
Ok.
Eventually they made an announcement to start walking towards the starting area. We passed through the gear bag tents (which was just bag check. There was no need for Annie and myself to split up) On the other side were tons of porta-potties and a water table right before the road you would take to the starting area. I grabbed a cup of water and we started the walk.
Some people complain and say it's a bit of a walk. It really wasn't that bad. Of course there was entertainment on the route. At one point, they have a huge highway sign indicating which corrals go where at an intersection. A-G was to the left and the rest were to the right. After I turned left, it was not far at all to the corrals. Again there were a ton of porta-potties. I made the walk towards D and they check to make sure you are entering the correct corral. I headed up towards the front of the corral and sat down next to the railing.
I was waiting for a bit but I was sitting and it wasn't cold so no complaints. It was really warm out. They do a great job of keeping you entertained with music and stuff! It feels like a pre-baseball game. Disney does it right.
I can see the start from my corral
Ready for the #WDWHalf
There's a Captain EO standing next to me #WDWHalf #disneypeoplearethebestpeople
As soon as I tweeted that, Captain EO turned to me and said "I like the glitter in your hair."
I thanked him and told him I loved the whole outfit. Something tells me it wasn't his choice to wear it.
It was almost time to start. Mickey, Goofy and obviously Donald came out to wish us luck!
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
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January 11, 2014
2014 Walt Disney World Half Marathon
After the National Anthem, Donald counted down each of the corrals starts! Each start had fireworks too! They started with the wheelchair division and then A, B, C and so on. Each corral start is 2 minutes apart.
Soon, corral D was off!
We were on the road for a while. I was trying to stay very tuned in to how fast I was going.
We got to mile marker 1, who was Sorcerer Mickey.
I looked at my watch to see what my time was and I was ran the first mile in about 11 minutes. Now, that is super slow for me usually, but my entire goal for the weekend was to GO SLOW and thats exactly what I was doing! Its funny but I was actually so proud of myself for being able to go so slow!
So I continued on, taking horrible pictures of each mile makers. I think I got all of them, but I'm not even gonna waste my time posting the ones that I cant even make out. Ill tell you who was on each marker because this is need to know information.
There were TONS of voluntEARS at each water station. There were tables and tables and tables and tables of Poweraid and water. AND the water was in little Disney Park cups!! >>>>
We continued along, there was a high school marching band playing music on the side. They were playing the Rocky theme song as I was going by.
Somewhere around mile marker 2, I saw my first Monorail of the day! Monorail red! I was gonna try and keep track of how many monorails passed by but there were SO MANY I COULD NOT DO IT! NOT A BAD PROBLEM TO HAVE!
Seeing the monorail while running is probably one of the highlights of my running and/or race career.
Mile marker 2 was my boyfriend and Punzie.
So around mile 3 we veered right onto 'another' road. When the runDisney site says Headphones can be worn but are discouraged due to audio messages that are placed throughout the course to ensure your safety its because they have those big highway signs and a recording playing stuff like:
Caution runners, road narrows ahead. Or caution runners, speed bumps ahead.
So as far as my experience goes, those are the announcements. I choose to run with my iPod, but I always have it at a volume just so I can just hear my music because I do enjoy my hearing and all. And also so I dont get hit by a car. I actually didn't hear much of my music during the races because they really do have a ton of music and stuff going on. For a very few times that there wasnt anything, I could hear my music so that was perfect.
Mile marker 3 was Lighting McQueen.
So we continued on.
I signed myself and some of my friends up for the Runner Tracking. I had mine tweeted for me.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - 5K Split in 33:44. Pace 10:52. Est: 2:22:20. ETA: 8:05 AM. Presented by RunDisney
We ran under the MK gates. Monorails were whizzing by. Music was playing. All around awesome.
We ran next to the Richard Petty Driving Experience race track.
We headed towards the TTC.
The first character of the day I spotted was Launchpad McQuack. Followed by Jack and Sally.
For my twin.
Up until now besides on a map I had NO IDEA where the MK parking lot is #deluxesnob
But we ran by it, and ironically enough we ran by Rapunzel 75. I tried to take a picture of the trams for my twin because those are her favorites but *delete*.
We ran by/through/along the TTA. I was definitely a little confused as to where we were, no lie LOL
Then we were on the road that you take on the way to the Contemp. We ran "under the water". They had a DJ and cool lights on the wall that had the runDisney logo. We ran by the Contemp and BLT and they look so pretty and peaceful at 6:30am...
At mile 5, I could see Space!
We turned on a road that is even with Space Mountain (thats the best way I can put it) and we were on the other side of the bushes that line the walkway from MK to the Contemp. We made a right into backstage of MK!!!! I saw a sign that said Hosts and Hostesses only please
EXCITING!!!!!
We ran backstage from where we entered and then onto Main Street USA! There were TONS of people all along Main Street cheering us on. We ran up MSUSA. I am actually tearing up writing this. We turned right to head towards Tomorrowland. We ran through Tomorrowland and turned and headed through Fantasyland. My first time seeing New Fantasyland (or at least the under construction mine coaster/new walls) was while I was running the half.
Pooh was out meeting near Pooh duh. And omg I could see my tower right before we turned left near the carousal *cries*
From there we ran through Cinderella castle. We turned right and ran over the bridge to Liberty square, followed by Frontierland. Woody was meeting. Near his mile marker 6 sign.
We ran over the WDW RR tracks. Then we headed backstage again. The castle float from Celebrate A Dream Come True parade was there with Cindy and Prince Charming meeting. We ran backstage, passing warehouse looking things and I spotted some floats in there.
We ran on, passing by a Reedy Creek Fire Department truck and DJ. They had little signs up with some fun facts about RCFD.
We ran by the Grand and the Poly. Lilo and Stitch were meeting near the Poly!!!
I also passed some reindeer.
We were approaching mile 7, which meant they would be playing the song we voted for. Too bad runDisney doesn't understand how voting works, and since none of the 3 songs we were given won by 50% we got stuck listening to all 3.
Don't Stop Believing time to Let It Go and Roar to the finish line.
Let It Go won the voting with like 35%, but no. They had to play all 3 songs. I got stuck with Roar...
We chugged along. Mile marker 7 was Bambi and Thumper.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - 10K Split in 1:06:58. Pace 10:47. Est: 2:21:17. ETA: 8:04 AM. Presented by RunDisney
Mile marker 8 was Snow and her prince.
We passed by the golf courses. Golfer Goofy was out with the Mickey head golf cart.
Mile marker 9 was Flick.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - 15K Split in 1:41:50. Pace 10:56. Est: 2:23:14. ETA: 8:06 AM. Presented by RunDisney
While we were on this stretch, in the distance I saw a bunch of people walking on the road and I figured it was about time for folks to be heading out to the parks. I was trying to figure out where they were going. As the 2 roads drew closer I noticed...oh they were runners from later corrals. LOL @ ME.
So that's when I realized we were running on the parallel road from where the first couple of miles were.
Mile marker 10 was Nemo, Marlin and Dory. Disney Cruise Lines were at the water table here.
Merida was miler marker 11.
They had little signs up like they did near mile 7 with fun facts about....well no other than the Conducktor of the WDW Half - Donald! Quack Facts.
We headed on an over pass headed towards EPCOT!!
Mile 12 had Anna Elsa and Olaf on the sign and Let It Go was playing, so I got pumped!
We ran some backstage at Epcot.
Then did an out and back through Future World.
Phineas and Ferb were meeting.
As were Timon and Rafiki.
Best mile ever.
We headed for a little more backstage Epcot.
Mile marker 13 was Donald!
That last .1 mile, I didn't sprint or speed up. I was still saving my energy for the next day.
As I got closer to the finish line, I saw Mickey and Minnie were out in their track suits!
Minnie didn't look like she wanted to give a high 5...or is it high 4?
I should have crossed over to Mickey but I didn't.
I crossed the finish line with a chip time of 2:23:06.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - Finish in 2:23:06. Pace 10:55. Presented by RunDisney
2014 Walt Disney World Half Marathon
After the National Anthem, Donald counted down each of the corrals starts! Each start had fireworks too! They started with the wheelchair division and then A, B, C and so on. Each corral start is 2 minutes apart.
Soon, corral D was off!
We were on the road for a while. I was trying to stay very tuned in to how fast I was going.
We got to mile marker 1, who was Sorcerer Mickey.
I looked at my watch to see what my time was and I was ran the first mile in about 11 minutes. Now, that is super slow for me usually, but my entire goal for the weekend was to GO SLOW and thats exactly what I was doing! Its funny but I was actually so proud of myself for being able to go so slow!
So I continued on, taking horrible pictures of each mile makers. I think I got all of them, but I'm not even gonna waste my time posting the ones that I cant even make out. Ill tell you who was on each marker because this is need to know information.
There were TONS of voluntEARS at each water station. There were tables and tables and tables and tables of Poweraid and water. AND the water was in little Disney Park cups!! >>>>
We continued along, there was a high school marching band playing music on the side. They were playing the Rocky theme song as I was going by.
Somewhere around mile marker 2, I saw my first Monorail of the day! Monorail red! I was gonna try and keep track of how many monorails passed by but there were SO MANY I COULD NOT DO IT! NOT A BAD PROBLEM TO HAVE!
Seeing the monorail while running is probably one of the highlights of my running and/or race career.
Mile marker 2 was my boyfriend and Punzie.
So around mile 3 we veered right onto 'another' road. When the runDisney site says Headphones can be worn but are discouraged due to audio messages that are placed throughout the course to ensure your safety its because they have those big highway signs and a recording playing stuff like:
Caution runners, road narrows ahead. Or caution runners, speed bumps ahead.
So as far as my experience goes, those are the announcements. I choose to run with my iPod, but I always have it at a volume just so I can just hear my music because I do enjoy my hearing and all. And also so I dont get hit by a car. I actually didn't hear much of my music during the races because they really do have a ton of music and stuff going on. For a very few times that there wasnt anything, I could hear my music so that was perfect.
Mile marker 3 was Lighting McQueen.
So we continued on.
I signed myself and some of my friends up for the Runner Tracking. I had mine tweeted for me.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - 5K Split in 33:44. Pace 10:52. Est: 2:22:20. ETA: 8:05 AM. Presented by RunDisney
We ran under the MK gates. Monorails were whizzing by. Music was playing. All around awesome.
We ran next to the Richard Petty Driving Experience race track.
We headed towards the TTC.
The first character of the day I spotted was Launchpad McQuack. Followed by Jack and Sally.
For my twin.
Up until now besides on a map I had NO IDEA where the MK parking lot is #deluxesnob
But we ran by it, and ironically enough we ran by Rapunzel 75. I tried to take a picture of the trams for my twin because those are her favorites but *delete*.
We ran by/through/along the TTA. I was definitely a little confused as to where we were, no lie LOL
Then we were on the road that you take on the way to the Contemp. We ran "under the water". They had a DJ and cool lights on the wall that had the runDisney logo. We ran by the Contemp and BLT and they look so pretty and peaceful at 6:30am...
At mile 5, I could see Space!
We turned on a road that is even with Space Mountain (thats the best way I can put it) and we were on the other side of the bushes that line the walkway from MK to the Contemp. We made a right into backstage of MK!!!! I saw a sign that said Hosts and Hostesses only please
EXCITING!!!!!
We ran backstage from where we entered and then onto Main Street USA! There were TONS of people all along Main Street cheering us on. We ran up MSUSA. I am actually tearing up writing this. We turned right to head towards Tomorrowland. We ran through Tomorrowland and turned and headed through Fantasyland. My first time seeing New Fantasyland (or at least the under construction mine coaster/new walls) was while I was running the half.
Pooh was out meeting near Pooh duh. And omg I could see my tower right before we turned left near the carousal *cries*
From there we ran through Cinderella castle. We turned right and ran over the bridge to Liberty square, followed by Frontierland. Woody was meeting. Near his mile marker 6 sign.
We ran over the WDW RR tracks. Then we headed backstage again. The castle float from Celebrate A Dream Come True parade was there with Cindy and Prince Charming meeting. We ran backstage, passing warehouse looking things and I spotted some floats in there.
We ran on, passing by a Reedy Creek Fire Department truck and DJ. They had little signs up with some fun facts about RCFD.
We ran by the Grand and the Poly. Lilo and Stitch were meeting near the Poly!!!
I also passed some reindeer.
We were approaching mile 7, which meant they would be playing the song we voted for. Too bad runDisney doesn't understand how voting works, and since none of the 3 songs we were given won by 50% we got stuck listening to all 3.
Don't Stop Believing time to Let It Go and Roar to the finish line.
Let It Go won the voting with like 35%, but no. They had to play all 3 songs. I got stuck with Roar...
We chugged along. Mile marker 7 was Bambi and Thumper.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - 10K Split in 1:06:58. Pace 10:47. Est: 2:21:17. ETA: 8:04 AM. Presented by RunDisney
Mile marker 8 was Snow and her prince.
We passed by the golf courses. Golfer Goofy was out with the Mickey head golf cart.
Mile marker 9 was Flick.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - 15K Split in 1:41:50. Pace 10:56. Est: 2:23:14. ETA: 8:06 AM. Presented by RunDisney
While we were on this stretch, in the distance I saw a bunch of people walking on the road and I figured it was about time for folks to be heading out to the parks. I was trying to figure out where they were going. As the 2 roads drew closer I noticed...oh they were runners from later corrals. LOL @ ME.
So that's when I realized we were running on the parallel road from where the first couple of miles were.
Mile marker 10 was Nemo, Marlin and Dory. Disney Cruise Lines were at the water table here.
Merida was miler marker 11.
They had little signs up like they did near mile 7 with fun facts about....well no other than the Conducktor of the WDW Half - Donald! Quack Facts.
We headed on an over pass headed towards EPCOT!!
Mile 12 had Anna Elsa and Olaf on the sign and Let It Go was playing, so I got pumped!
We ran some backstage at Epcot.
Then did an out and back through Future World.
Phineas and Ferb were meeting.
As were Timon and Rafiki.
Best mile ever.
We headed for a little more backstage Epcot.
Mile marker 13 was Donald!
That last .1 mile, I didn't sprint or speed up. I was still saving my energy for the next day.
As I got closer to the finish line, I saw Mickey and Minnie were out in their track suits!
Minnie didn't look like she wanted to give a high 5...or is it high 4?
I should have crossed over to Mickey but I didn't.
I crossed the finish line with a chip time of 2:23:06.
Goofy Challenge: MEGAN HILL - Finish in 2:23:06. Pace 10:55. Presented by RunDisney
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LifeIsDis
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Joined
- May 22, 2012
Monorail Red FTW
JACK AND SALLY MY LOVES L:JASLJALSKJALKHS}
We have never parked in Punzie and THAT MAKES MOI REALLY SAD. We are always stuck in the crap lots.
I know exactly what roads you are talking about cause #dislife
THAT STUPID CASTLE FLOAT
Um Let It Go CLEARLY WON
Snow ♥
JACK AND SALLY MY LOVES L:JASLJALSKJALKHS}
We have never parked in Punzie and THAT MAKES MOI REALLY SAD. We are always stuck in the crap lots.
I know exactly what roads you are talking about cause #dislife
THAT STUPID CASTLE FLOAT
Um Let It Go CLEARLY WON
Snow ♥
DisneyKid4Life
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2013
OK, WHAT??!!!! SERIOUSLY???!!!!! I can almost forgive changing a flight time (almost), but the FRIGGIN' AIRPORT!!!!!! No... just NO!!!!!!!. Jetblue, you're bringing the plane to me. I'll be on the doorstep waiting.
Phew, good thing you didn't forget the pixie dust!!
I think now that if at any time I decided to do any kind of race or Marathon, I will only do it if there's fireworks... And Disney characters.
JACK AND SALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So can you stop and get pictures with the characters while you're racing??? How awesome to have them cheering you on. OMG!!
Seriously running through Disney... Good GOD!!!
And a Reindeer, which is awesome because, Reindeer are better than people.
This is so awesome!!!!
OK, now about that flight airport change...
Phew, good thing you didn't forget the pixie dust!!
I think now that if at any time I decided to do any kind of race or Marathon, I will only do it if there's fireworks... And Disney characters.
JACK AND SALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So can you stop and get pictures with the characters while you're racing??? How awesome to have them cheering you on. OMG!!
Seriously running through Disney... Good GOD!!!
And a Reindeer, which is awesome because, Reindeer are better than people.
This is so awesome!!!!
OK, now about that flight airport change...
leopardmickeyears
The Lost Princess
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
THE TITLE >>>
Still cant believe the deal with the flight.
What, was there fog at Westchester?!
Porta potties <<<<<<
I KNOW WHAT WAS THAT CRAP?! And no I think it was left over snow #LivinginNYprobs
We will talk about those porta-potties again
Monorails >>>>>
Um you need to fix that.
You would.
OK, WHAT??!!!! SERIOUSLY???!!!!! I can almost forgive changing a flight time (almost), but the FRIGGIN' AIRPORT!!!!!! No... just NO!!!!!!!. Jetblue, you're bringing the plane to me. I'll be on the doorstep waiting.
Phew, good thing you didn't forget the pixie dust!!
I think now that if at any time I decided to do any kind of race or Marathon, I will only do it if there's fireworks... And Disney characters.
JACK AND SALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So can you stop and get pictures with the characters while you're racing??? How awesome to have them cheering you on. OMG!!
Seriously running through Disney... Good GOD!!!
And a Reindeer, which is awesome because, Reindeer are better than people.
This is so awesome!!!!
OK, now about that flight airport change...
I mean, we already know I had a problem with JetBlue changing/canceling my first flight = less Disney time which is already a no no, but I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT NOT EVEN 12 HOURS NOTICE ^$#@#(*&$#@$# :furious
That was an important part of the outfit
luckily! it didn't sweat into my eyes...but more on that laterIt will be addressing this in my recap of my thoughts and feels of runDisney, but if you have any desire to run and/or runDisney and you are a DisFreak...I would absolutely say in a heartbeat do it. Even if you're not a runner (like Annie lol), I honestly, completely feel that if you love Disney and have a desire to experience a runDisney, I would say do it (with some training, of course).
Yes!! They had MarathonFoto photographers and a character attendant at each character spot, you can hand your camera to the attendant. There was a line at every character but they are very efficient, you won't be waiting long.
Credit Man
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Congratulations on the run. Sounds like tons of fun. Looking forward to the full.
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