Been a busy planning stretch for me with this upcoming race. I was able to make my ADRs and got all the ones I wanted, so I'm happy about that. While my dining plans are not subject to some change, I have what I want.
Friday evening pre 10K meal at 'Ohana. This meal just appealed to me. That said, it's also the meal most likely to be dropped. We'll see how comfortable I feel as I get closer to the race and how much I want to chance getting back to my room "later" than I want. This won't be much of a park day because of the Expo, but given the great price I found for a 7 day park hopper, this day off from the parks suddenly became a light park day.
Saturday: This is always a bit of a tricky day to plan. I've always done a late breakfast at
Disneyland after the 10K and before the 1/2, but given the differences between Disneyland and WDW, I don't want to plan a specific breakfast especially given last year's challenges. Hopeful realistic scenario is I'll have a late breakfast at the resort.
I did schedule a late afternoon meal at Le Chefs de France. This is another meal subject to cancellation. In its favor are the appeal of the baked macaroni and cheese before the 1/2 and the relaxed nature of this meal.
Sunday: Very late lunch at Be Our Guest. Booked for late because I don't want to be too rushed to make an ADR after the 1/2. Not very likely to drop because it's Be Our Guest. I love this restaurant and hope to see a different side of it for lunch. In the end decided on Le Cellier for dinner. It's a favorite of mine and I decided I wanted a very celebratory dinner for after the race.
Whatever I do in the parks those two days is a bonus of sorts. Post race touring is very much a matter of doing just enough to be active, but taking it very easy.
Getting all my ADRs also sets me up for one day at Universal to see Harry Potter. There's a decent enough chance that my next WDW visit will occur after Star Wars Land opens so it will be much more difficult to pull myself away from WDW to see Potter at that time.
And with the back to back training runs having begun this weekend for the Rebel Challenge, this also means that I have back to back runs every other weekend now through Dark Side race weekend. A challenge yes, but I know what I want to accomplish and there's only one way to do so.
We need to keep the Force balanced on both coasts after all. In the case of wildly popular properties, Disney wants as much balance as they can reasonably get.
We are running the 5k with our oldest boys (11, 10) and I know my DS can pack away some food...and after running? HA! better get a buffet. We chose GG, tried for PPO but I think ended up with 0810. I figure, the race is at 0530, even if we're not actually starting until 0600, and take a LOT of pictures and take our time, we're going to be done by 0730 LATEST (including medals, etc). So, we can hop into Epcot and eat, do a couple quick FP+ things (?) and maybe do a water park or pools the rest of the day (after showers!)...head back out for nighttime stuff. I think if you know the general time you'd finish (and then add +0:05 for each corral start) you can get a pretty good guesstimate! It will probably take a few min to get INTO Epcot with bag check etc but for us I think it will work
You have me jealous about your ADR.
