Half Marathon day and another 2:00 wake up. I am a zombie and cant understand how the Princess and the other Dopeys are coping. Get to the corrals and guess who is there.
These guys
To put it in perspective, this was the Dis Dad meet up at the 2012 Half Marathon. Ryan would be in the picture but he was stuck on a bus somewhere. A much colder day.
Good seeing everyone and hats off to all the runners. And everyone finished!
Headed to the bleacher area where I would be camped out for the next couple of hours. Talked SIL into going to the MK to watch the runners there. Win for me.
Corral G is off
Disney does this right. Logistically they have it down, moving people from place to place and entertaining both the runners and the spectators.
Notice once again, the sun is not yet up
As the womens winner crossed the finish line
At the finish
Gave her a pep talk. One more race to go and just two miles into the full, she will be at the halfway point of the miles she was going to run this week. She threw her medal at me and let me tell you the Donald medal hurts.
Back at the room, the Cheetah heard about this thing called an ice bath that helps in recovery so she decided to do it. She found out it is extremely painful. Funnier than he!! listening her beg for mercy as she sat in the bath.
Trying to warm up
Tonight was the Ohanna meet. Ran into Aaron on the way to the bus and we decided after a bit to share a cab to the Poly. The pre meet got moved from the Tambu Lounge to the pool bar. Seems the Northerners wanted to look at the sun. A good time was had, lots of laughs and one or two jabs at each other. OK more than one or two.
Since I wasn't going to pay for the vegetarian to eat rice all night, we went to Kona. Had the Maui Onion and White Bean Soup which was very good and crab cakes that were good but spicy. DD had Pan-Asian Noodles and they were very spicy. Not something you want to eat before running 26.2 miles. I talked to the waiter and ordered the Cucumber Roll which was well received. They were nice enough to take the noodles off the bill without even being asked.
After goodbyes to the families at Ohanas, where I thanked them for spending their money in the state of Florida, it was back to the room and lights out. Up in a few hours for the last hurrah.