How emotional do you get?

[JustSmile]

I'm like so many of us around here and I love all things Disney. I'll also admit that I'm pretty emotional. Every time we go to Disney World, I cry upon seeing Main Street and the castle. So, with my Disney 1/2 coming closer each day, I'm beginning to wonder how I'll react when I'm running down Main Street and fulfilling a dream. For those of you who have already done this, how did you react?: And if this is going to be anyone's first 1/2 or full in Disney, are you thinking the same thing I am? That you may become a crying, running, emotional mess. And, please don't tell me I'm the only one.

 

[dsnyfan21]

During my first Half, as I entered Main Street from the backstage area I was taking photos and then you turn the corner to see the castle in front of me. I was emotional and think I had the biggest grin from ear to ear the entire time I was in the MK!!!! Really got my heart pumping when I went through the castle. I didn't cry, but it was very emotional. I tear up a bit when I finished the half. (Just a reminder, there are a bunch of photogs as you exit the castle, so try to keep the tears down just for a bit so you get a good photograph! )

 

[wtpclc]

The first year I did the full, I cheered for the half. Just entering Main Street to cheer, I was in tears. During th race, however, I was too excited to cry. Post-race, though, I was a mess! You just never know what will hit you when. Whatever happenes, though, teh poeple around you understand what an emotional experience this is, so don't worry if you do get really emotional.

 

[hoosmi]

I was so worried about the same thing before the Goofy! I totally started crying during a Race for the Cure, so I thought I was going to be a big mess. (I don't have a personal link with breast cancer, but just seeing all the survivors and the cards they were wearing did me in). But, like Carrie said, I was so crazy excited I didn't cry at all in the MK. When I look at my half pictures, I have a huge cheesy grin in all of them.

Wait- flashback- I did get a little teary eyed when I saw/heard WISHers at the TTC. It was dark and I was still scared about whether I could really finish the race and out of nowhere they were screaming crowds- and they were yelling GO WISH to me-- that was pretty emotional...

Jen in GA

 

[Jen117]

I cried like a baby during a lot of the race! I cried big time when I rounded that final turn and saw my family there cheering me. I cry just thinking about it! Heck, I have cried at every 1/2 marathon I have done and the full. I get very emotional because I have always been told I can't do this because I am not "athletic"... and every time I race I prove everyone wrong.

Oh and I cry when I cheer people on, especially people that have inspired me through this journey!

Does this make me a big baby???

 

[postesf]

I normally get emotional BEFORE the races. That seems weird to me. I got emotional before the Minnie 15K knowing my family would there at the end, but when the end came, I totally thought I would be emotional, but I wasn't. Inwardly, I was so excited and happy, but outwardly, I know it seemed I had no emotion at all. I get teary-eyed reading others people's race reports and when I read accounts of people getting cheered on, but on the course, it seems different for me.

Stacie

 

[Honeibee]

I too get very emotional at the start. Just ask poor Cam and Rhonda what a mess I was before the gun went off at the Minnie.

However, the reason I do....is because I feel SO BLESSED and it is SO AMAZING to me that I am even THERE and I CAN DO THIS! I am overwhelmed with happiness, so, it's not a bad thing.

 

[escape]

I consider myself to be a fairly emotional person. I thought I would be really emotional after completing my first race ever - the WDW half in 2007. I went from basically being a couch potato to doing the race 6 months later and I was quite excited and proud that I could even make it to the start line.

However, that race day was hot, I got 4 blood blisters along the way, I drank too much Gatorade before the race started and I was nauseated for most of the race. It was not a good day for me. The only true emotion I felt was one of relief after I crossed the finish line. After I finished, I thought that race was going to be the one and only for me. I couldn't even think about doing another one. If it hadn't been for all the WISHers I got to know during that weekend, I would have said - been there, done that - move on.

Within two days after I got home from the trip I signed up for the WDW marathon the next year, 2008. Somehow, the pain from that day vanished as I remembered the good times of that whole event weekend. It made me want to come back for more.

 

[tigger2esq]

i totally get choked up 1) at the start 2) running through the parks (during the first half--running around the world showcase pre-dawn with the illuminations music playing; and down main street and through the castle) and 3) at the finish line when I got my coveted Donald and then Mickey medal.

 

[msblrobs]

I don't consider myself emotional in the least yet I always bawl at the start, in the parks and at the finish. I still to this day cry whenever I hear "Who Let The Dogs Out" because one of the Florida running clubs was playing it on the way to MK in 2005 for my 1st WDW marathon. Seeing my family on the course also gets me way too emotional for my liking .

 

[MouseDogMom]

Like you, I'm usually pretty emotional, so I expected that when I crossed the finish line I'd be bawling like a baby. I actually didn't cry when I finished, but I did tear up as we made the turn down Main Street and I looked up and saw the castle. Between the view and the hordes of people there cheering, the emotion was much more than I expected, and there were WISHers everywhere! But no, you will not be alone!

Jackie

 

[Duanerice]

Didn't cry going down Main Street but it was pretty darn special. I remember telling the person running next to me (who knows who it was) that "this is what it's all about".

Thought I'd get emotional at the finish but I was so tired that I couldn't even think of getting emotional. Relief was all I could manage.

enjoy,
Duane

 

[JimB.]

I got a bit choked up as I ran the last mile of the ToT last year. Not a bit during the 1/2, I was in too much frickin' pain.

 

[TEK224]

In 2006, I finshed both races in the Goofy. I was ok till I crossed the finish line of the full. Then the tears came down. I was so happy to have made it the 39.3 miles. Usually when I get on Main Street I just have a big grin, no tears.

Of course the last two years I haven't finished the full part of the Goofy and the tears then were of disappointment.

Terri

 

[10nis]

I consider myself an extremely emotional person (can cry at commercials, reading cards in the Hallmark store and I tear up watching Wishes at MK or even listening to the Wishes music). I have learned, however, it is VERY difficult to cry and run! During my first Disney marathon, I cried when I finally saw my family and at the finish - rounding the corner and finally hearing the gospel choir set me off!! During my GOOFY experience, I don't remember crying at all. I was in for the fun and that is what I had! Hope I can repeat the great, fun experience for the 2009 Goofy!

 

[Alysa]

I cry all the time anyway but when I saw my daughter at the end cheering me on - game over.

 

[GirTheGecko]

The start of the race was very exciting to me. I was standing there with my dbf and his family, I was thinking about everything I did to get there. At that point the year before, I never entertained the thought of running a step let alone a half marathon. I was also really nervous since I hadn't had a real solid breakfest (oatmeal).

The Magic Kingdom sign thrilled me, but I forgot about the never ending parking lot. I was to the point of "Where is that *special language* hotel?" When I actually got there, I was so excited to see the castle and everything. But it was too quick. Epcot was a thrill since I knew I was almost finished. I had my right hip seize up on me, but I was going to finish. Even if I had to crawl. But what almost did me in was seeing my dbf's father and sister beyond the finish line with their medals.

At some point during this journey, I decided I was running for a twinkie. I got my twinkie, and it was so worth it. They just about had to scrape me off of the ceiling when I found out the restaurant HAD twinkies.

 

[JustSmile]

Thanks so much, y'all. I feel alot better, although I was tearing up reading your replies. You are a wonderful group of people, and I'm blessed to have found you.

 

[scoolover]

I didn't cry but I did have quite the Disneygasm!

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Disney makes me very emotional.
Off hand these are my moments:

First time driving through the "Welcome to DisneyWorld" overhang
Wishes
First visit on Main Street with the Castle up ahead. I walk slowly to savor it all in.
Being on the Polynesian beach looking at the castle
Our last day at the Polynesian( we always stay there).
Anytime I hear "When You Wish Upon a Star"

Damn, it looks like all I do is cry on vacation.