Totally agree!!! Though there were some complaints from our corral, we loved it!!!
Complaints?! Weird!!
Shannon, I'm so sad as I'm actually convinced we must have been within feet of each other at this point of the race. I have a photo at mile marker 6 at 1.52.12 and looking at your mile marker 4 time, you were in line for Jack and Sally when we passed you. Wish I'd realised as I would have said Hi!
Ah, I bet you're right.
That stinks!!
Re
Castaway Cay - we did the inaugural and don't quote me on this, because it's what other runners said (afraid we weren't interested enough in the talk to go) but the rubber medal is super cute - I got one as well as the special inaugural one - BUT I heard they are now charging $60 (includes tech shirt).
Okay, thanks. I'll have to see what the story is in the coming months! The only way I'm paying $60 to do that race is if I get the nicer Challenge medal with it!!
Royal Donald or Mickey. The last two years I've skipped stopping for Royal Mickey and Minnie because the line was soooooo long and I was worried about time. This year I had told Chris we were stopping no matter how long the line was and then they weren't there. I was so disappointed.
Ugh, right!!
Both of those were ones I planned on stopping for on Saturday and Sunday and was surprised not to see them there. I wish they'd kept them out.
I'm sorry that happened (or didn't happen, I guess).
Great start to the half though. I was also so happy the lights were still on as we ran toward the castle. For whatever reason I didn't take any mile marker shots during the half, so not sure what time it was when we ran in there, but from the amount of sunrise you are seeing, we had to have been pretty close to the same time.
Well, darn! Apparently I was close to a bunch of DISers that morning!
And "bask in my lameness" made me literally LOL.
...it's true though, isn't it??
That is a great tip, thanks. Maybe I can remember to bring an eraser.
I say "some kiddos" may want erasers, but I'm not gonna lie...I myself would have liked one.
I love your meet and greets.
That's a big part of what keeps me coming back to these races!!
I feel you on the wanting to get faster. I want to break a 2 hour half marathon. There's just so much more that goes into speed training.
I hope you do it!! I'd like to break 2 hours someday, but I'm not sure it's entirely realistic for me...IF it happens I think I'm still a ways off. My big goal for 2014 was to break 2:10 and I think I was trained well enough to do it, but in my goal race in September my IT band blew up partway though (after not bugging at all for the entire year...super).
I don't think I want to try a fast half marathon again just yet.
I do LIKE speedwork...I like having the variety in my runs each week. It's so tough though!!!
I really want to make it to a
Disneyland race, especially Dumbo Double Dare. I need to find more people in my area who love Disney and love to run. So far DH has indulged me but I know he's not as crazy about it as I am.
I just recently started doing these Disney races with my friends (who love Disney and the races like I do, but we don't live close to each other)...in the past I've done some with my brother (who likes the races but doesn't love them or Disney like I do). Otherwise I do all my runs by myself.
Fantastic updates!! Your pictures are so cute - love seeing the rare characters. I especially hope that Ulf is out there for the PHM as I'm dressing as Rapunzel
I hope you find him!! That would be so awesome!
Definitely keep your eyes peeled when you're running through Fantasyland - I've met Flynn and Rapunzel there during a past race.
Very interested to hear about the second half of the course
I will post about that next!
Your Donald drawing looks great! Bert and Mary together in DHS?! What a good find!
Thanks!
Yeah we are not ones to turn down a character meet, and Bert in the Jolly Holiday outfit was a new one for me!
Mmmmm...that grilled cheese and soup looks super tasty.
It WAS. It definitely hit the spot on a chilly day!
I didn't do Wine and Dine last year but the weather sounded just terrible so I'm glad your friend is giving runDisney another go to get the the full-on, magical experience!
The weather was not ideal, that's for sure.
The beautiful medal made up for it.
I think doing this race - WITHOUT the rain - was a turning point for her. She's excited to do more now!
I agree with the'just' jokes. I think they were supposed to be jokes but people can get really touchy about that so I don't think should have gone there. Focus on making everyone feel good about whatever distance they are accomplishing, I think! Just my two cents, I guess!
Yeah, I mean, I remember running my first half marathon (Princess in 2011 - challenges didn't exist yet) and the thought of going that distance was SUCH a big deal for me, so to have someone say it was *just* a half marathon would have been disappointing.
I loved the Ralph and Vanellope shot! I really liked that they used the truck which I think is from Boo to You!
I thought that was a good one too! I liked how each character stop had some kind of cool background.
You grabbed a good shot of the mile four marker. We missed that one both races because it was buried behind people- oh well!
My shot from the marathon is not as good, unfortunately.
I also thought it was super weird that nobody was out by the castle. I always thought that the royal Fab-Five meet was such a runDisney staple that I was surprised it was absent all weekend!
Me too! Disappointing!
so if he signs up for that I likely will as well...I keep going back and forth. And if the rumors are true and the Castaway Cay 5K has changed to the rubber medals and is still free, I'll probably do that race in July or October (even though I swore I never would again...)
YAY!!
Sorry, not sorry!
