Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Disney Princess Half Marathon

So my mom and I went to Disney World, ran a half marathon, wore tiaras and ran through the castle with 26,000 other princess adorned women...

Isn't that normal?  

It will be a regular occurrence for this mother and daughter.  Well, we hope so!

The weekend started with the most fun expo for the attendees. 

I wanted to share some of the fun times we had and what we would and would not do next time for all those who would like to run it in the future.

We were glad we were able to attend the first day of the two day expo, Friday, solely to purchase the "I Did It" shirts.  The shirts were pink and on the back, feature the route you ran through Disney.  We had heard from those who attended to the expo on the Saturday, the shirts had sold out.  


Champagne?  Yes, Please!


My mom and I purchased the runners retreat and it was worth it!  We were able to attend a breakfast prior to the race, store our belongings, and attend a huge brunch afterwards.  The brunch had a TV so you could watching the ongoing race, massages if you finished early enough, a changing area and so much to eat and drink and really, it was a nice and comfortable place to rest your legs after you ran 13.1 miles.    


Because the race started at 5:30 AM, I thought these would be perfect to keep us pumped while we were waiting for our corral to get up to the start line.   


These were the extras I chose to wear.  Next time, I might dress up like a Disney Princess and less like a ballerina/fairy/princess.  


This was one of the many photo opts your could stop, wait in line to take the picture then you head back to the race.  We didn't stop at any of them to get our picture taken because the lines were so long and we didn't want to mess up our time too much.

Next time, we may just predict our time to be faster so we can be in one of the first corrals.  Hopefully, the lines would be shorter with the more serious runners.  


We were about to run through the castle!!  It got really crowded here. Well, actually, the race was pretty crowded most of the time.  It was unlike any race I have ever ran in, it never thinned out.  Another reason to try to get in a different corral.  



These are the mile markers that so cute!  FYI we didn't take 4 hours to run the race, that was the time from the initial start.   


We finished!  We couldn't believe it!



Because we had no shame, we wore matching "We Did It" shirts and our medals for the rest of the day!  I gotta say we weren't the only ones sporting our new gold jewelery on our necks. 

Because we ran around the parks after the race, we were not that sore the next morning.  Another difference from previous races, I would go home and relax the rest of the day and then I could hardly move the next day.  

Next time, we decided that we would stay a day or two after the race instead of coming earlier.  We didn't want to overdo it, so we went back to the hotel early the night before the race day.  So next year we would want to stay after to actually enjoy Disney World for it is the happiest place on Earth!   

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