Porta-potties and in-park bathrooms are available.
I usually run around the block repeatedly for short runs which is a 1/2 mile so if I need the bathroom I go back to my house. For longer runs I run around a park with bathrooms or my town. I usually sweat most of it out though or don't drink a lot before my run, just during so it's not a problem.
For my long 13 mile training run recently, I mapped my course to run a figure 8 twice in a nearby neighborhood that would end at my house so I could stop for a bathroom break after the first figure 8 and then I did the figure 8 again. It was good knowing that I had a place to go if I needed one.
For the 10k last year, they had so many port-a-potties. First in the staging (waiting area), then again right before you go into your Corral. Then they have a small bank (2) right at mile 1 (which I desperately had to use not knowing when the next ones would be), but then there were many more along the course before you got into Epcot. I honestly can't remember any in the park but I imagine the actual restrooms in the park may have been open. Someone else may have the answer to that part.
Are you possibly in NWA??I live in very rural Arkansas. Back roads, no sidewalks, people drive 55+ past my house. I would not run very far from my house due to those and other reasons (wildlife, loose dogs, etc.). So my path is VERY boring - a 1/2 mile out and back, through a stand of pines that does offer great shade when it's ridiculously hot here in summer. One downside I discovered the other day after a storm blew thru was that it gets littered with pine needles, pine cones and branches after a strong wind blows. I was super careful not to trip or slip! The plus side of the route is that every 1/2 mile I am near my bathroom, lol, although I haven't run a long enough long run to need it yet!
Thank you. I am in it for the long haul now the our weather is cooler. I can see myself making up my own training plan after 10 miles like you do. I will certainly remember that bit of advice. Being diabetic, I know I absolutely need to have a hydration and nutrition plan.Oh man! I feel like there were SOOOOOO many mistakes! First, during training last year, I never tried to push myself past the 10 mile mark. I use the Galloway method and was doing his training program that's on the runDisney web site. The week that I was supposed to do an 11 mile run/walk, I only went 10 miles and then I pretty much started making up my own training plan after that. I never increased my mileage beyond 10 miles. I should have stuck to the original training plan.
Next, I never followed or even tried to develop an actual hydration and running nutrition plan. Learned my lesson the hard way on race day....
I also did not get enough sleep the night before the race and ended up being nervous and not eating or drinking anything before the race (I had a pre-race meal planned but I was so nervous that I felt I was going to be sick if I ate). I hardly drank at the water stations because I was concerned with needing to use the restroom during the race. I got so many cramps during the race that it hurt just to walk! And I felt it for the next few days!
I didn't stick with my timed intervals during the race at all! This totally messed me up. I got all freaked out and didn't follow my plan at all.
Basically, I didn't properly train to go 13.1 miles and I didn't fuel before or during the race and didn't stay hydrated at all. Ugh. But now I know not to cut any corners and I'm preparing better to tackle this race!
You'll love doing runDisney! Just make sure you follow your training and fuel and hydrate properly!
You're a long way away then. I was going to say those trails in Fayetteville are awesome! Good luck to you!No, south central. About half way between Little Rock and Texarkana on 30.
My long run usually takes me by my place of work on the way out and the way back, so I stop there sometimes. I try to judge my fluid intake so that I don't have to stop, but sometimes it happens.
90's here in Georgia. The other day it was misting as I hit the trail and I thought it would make things cooler. Nope. The mist stopped and left us with nothing but icky sticky.
