RunDisney Jeff Galloway Event review

[roomthreeseventeen]

On Friday morning, I had the opportunity to be one of 20 runners to run/walk with Jeff Galloway around the World Showcase!

I left AKL at about 5:50, and took a taxi over to EPCOT. It was completely surreal to see the park both dark and empty:

Once everyone was there, they gave us FREE RunDisney tech shirts. Super cute. (This picture is obviously not from the same day):

We talked a little bit about RunDisney and the upcoming Half Marathon, and then, we were off. We did a run/walk ratio of 60/30 seconds, at a pretty fast clip. We did two loops of the World Showcase, led by a CM on a Segway.

It was fun to run/walk with so many different people. The walk breaks were very interesting. I'm not sure they worked very well for me, because I find it hard to get running again at a fast enough clip. It was great to try it, though, with someone as knowledgeable as Jeff is.

After the second lap, we took a group photo:

And then photos with a special guest on the course:

There was a Q&A session after, where we talked about injuries, nutrition, the run/walk method, triathlons (someone asked Jeff if he advocated the swim/float/swim method), pacing, runDisney events, the Goofy challenge training, and a bunch of other stuff I'm probably forgetting now.

We finished at about 8:30. Jeff gave us all signed photos of him in front of the castle. What a GREAT guy.

It was the perfect start to a wonderful weekend. Yeah, my legs were probably tired for having run/walked three miles on Friday morning, but I didn't help matters by walking around the parks all day Friday and Saturday. It's all part of being at Disney, which is so incredible.

Thanks, runDisney.
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[FireDancer]

It looks like it was a good time. Thanks for the review.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Hey! I was Jenn, the girl from NJ that said she wanted to run in Central Park soon! If I PM you my email can you forward me the group photo in front of the lagoon that you posted? In my version of the photo, of course I'm looking away.

Hope you had a great half marathon as well! Mine was less than stellar sadly but at least I finished!

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Hey! I was Jenn, the girl from NJ that said she wanted to run in Central Park soon! If I PM you my email can you forward me the group photo in front of the lagoon that you posted? In my version of the photo, of course I'm looking away.

Hope you had a great half marathon as well! Mine was less than stellar sadly but at least I finished!

Sure thing.

My half was okay. I wanted 2:15, ended up 2:20:28, 28 seconds off my PR.

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Amy, thanks so much for posting this. I was able to meet Jeff Friday evening, and he was talking about the run in the morning. He was such a great guy. I passed him on the half marathon course, and got to see his walk 30 run 30 intervals. I was amazed how quickly (and smoothly) he runs those intervals. Neat guy, and a great match for Disney.

So glad you were able to do this.

 

[saysay]

Sounds great! Thanks for the pics and the review. Good job on the race!

 

[r3ngels]

How fun! I love Jeff Galloway.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Here's my blog post about the morning too

If you want any of the photos, just let me know!

http://eatsleeprundisney.blogspot.com/

 

[momof2minnies]

How did you guys get to do this? Just wondering.

Linda

 

[disneygirlinnj]

How did you guys get to do this? Just wondering.

Linda

Tuesday before the race weekend, the Disney Blog posted and said that the first 20 people to email them will get selected to attend the Jeff Galloway meet and run. We were the quickest I guess!

 

[momof2minnies]

WOW that's cool

Linda

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

I'm happy you got to do this and that you had fun! Love the pics.

 

[pjupton]

It was such a great experience! I'm the second girl from the left in the group shot. Once I get through the 234,038 photos I took last week, I'll try to post some here!