So I guess I am just destined to be in one of the last corrals. Which is probably where I belong anyway, lol. I just don't want to be swept.
I was in the last corral for Tink because I did not do a qualifying race. Just try and move yourself up as far to the front of the corral as you can and you will probably be fine.
It is a hard corral to be in though for a lot of reasons. I got myself fairly near the front of the corral since I was alone and I got there relatively early and I weaved my way through the people. Plus the way the corrals are set up at DL, there's a fairly high curb on one side of the road where the fencing is set up on, and people were mainly standing in the street, so I got on the curb and walked up the edge a ways. Then when our corral started moving forward as the ones ahead of us went off, I just got back down in the street and kept weaving around people as we walked.
It is a hard corral because it takes so long to start (it was 50 min past race start before we went off) and I had to pee long before we even started. But I didn't want to lose the position I'd worked hard to move up to by leaving the corral, because I was also worried about being swept. So, I ended up wasting about 10 minutes in line at the first set of portapotties we came to at mile 2, even though I knew that the bathrooms in the park would be open and the first set of portapotties was right as we were coming in to California Adventure. I don't know why I didn't just wait a little longer and make a break for a bathroom in the park. There are also a lot of walkers to dodge back there, although I am pretty sure there were plenty that I also ran into from further up corrals as well.
We are under 5 months now people!!! Is anyone starting their training or just adding on to what they are already running? After the DM in January I took a break. I'm back up to 6 miles now and will steadily increase. It will be my DBF first RD event so I think I want to stay back with her and gets lots of pictures together.
I haven't started specific training yet. I'm going to follow the Galloway "experienced to finish in the upright position" plan, which seems to start July 7 this year (they still have last year's plan up that started the 8th). After Tink on 5/10, I have just been maintaining what training I had with the ~30-40 min weekday runs, and a longer run on most of the weekends. I did 3 miles the weekend after (5/16), a 5K race on 5/24, 6.6 miles last weekend, 4.3 miles this past weekend, and this coming Saturday I have my 10K race for (hopefully!) a better proof of time than Tink. I got 3:15:41 there (oh how I dearly regret that portapotty stop... without that I would have made the < 3:15 corral). So, that gives me a little over 3 weeks after that to just keep maintaining before I start the official schedule.
I'm hoping to use those weeks to get back into the habit of going to BodyPump (used to go 2x a week but have been off the wagon since the winter) and adding a spin class on one of my cross training days, since I think that those will help out my running.