My thoughts:
I was surprised at how efficient the buses were at Wide World of Sports, I thought it was going to be a madhouse but they were so organized.
That was a super long wait in good ol' corral D, we did a lot of sitting around.
I was kind of surprised we had so much lining up and waiting to do before we got to the start line (this was our first race ever, so maybe this always happens).
We did pretty well for our level of training (we never went more than 5 miles in a single training run). Ran for about the first 3 miles straight. What really messed me up was the Wide World of Sports. We had a pretty good pace set, then we hit that dirt trail. There was only space for about 4 people wide, and everyone just started walking. It was super hard to get around anyone, much less a whole trail of walking people. We ended up just walking most of it with everyone else, then when we hit the track it was hard to get back up to speed.
We did much better once we hit the road again, but my feet were starting to hurt really bad at this point. It got easier once we hit that Mile 9, but I really wish they had had little half mile or 1/4 mile markers so I could better pace myself.
I think we finished in about 2 hours and 20 minutes, which I don't think is bad at all for our first official race. I still think we woulda had a better time if it hadn't been for that dirt path, but oh well.
Does anyone remember all the photo ops? I think there was one per mile....the only ones I remember are:
-the AK parade float
-the pirate ship
-Dr. Facillier
-Big Bad Wolf
-the hyenas and Scar (so mad about this one, didn't notice Scar as we ran by and were only told later by another runner in Gaston's line at the party, totally woulda stopped for pictures if we'd seen Scar)
I don't remember any more...my mind does have a few blank spots from the race.
The After party was super fun, we were exhausted but still got pictures with Darth Vader, Jafar and Gaston.
We had walk on rides on ST, RR, TOT and we had about a 20 minute wait for TSMM.
Oh, one more thing. It was really weird, when we hit mile 2 it looked like they were already clearing out the water/powerade station. There were only about 2 tables still open and it was super crowded. I thought that was weird because we were keeping a pretty good pace then (9 minutes per mile), so even though we were in the last corral, there were still a lot coming.