In hindsight I wish we would have stopped for all the characters during the 5k. Especially Chip and Dale. I really don't know why we didn't ....maybe my "runners pride"...if that's a thing? But we didn't really run much of it anyways since Lucy was kinda struggling with it so I should have just embraced the Disney. Lesson learned for me. I'm glad that you and Beth had a great time.
I think it's really a mentality thing. I went into the 5k thinking about it as a character stop with running in between. I think that if you go into it thinking of it as a race, it's harder to stop for all the characters. Which I guess is where my being very weird pays off.
I had kind of forgot we ran into you after the race too. I was in a personal fog of panic knowing I had to get Lucy and Aaron ready and packed up to head home and me and Olivia moved to a new resort. Haha! So I guess we actually bumped into you 3 times (or 4 if Aaron and Lucy at DHS count). We were really lucky like that!
It was really awesome that we got to see you so many times!!
Ugh all that rain. I live in fear of having to run a rainy race because I don't do runs in the rain.
I had practiced running in the race once or twice, but I really hoped that would mean we'd get dry races. No luck.
It's really understandable that you had a difficult start but I'm thrilled that you were able to come away with a fun, wet 10k experience!
Thanks!
Remy and Emile are such a great meet. Super jealous of that one.
I was so excited when I saw them!! I actually saw them leaving for a quick break and knew I had to wait for them to come back.
Can't wait to see pictures.
Hopefully I'll post a few here soon, and then the rest will go on the TR. I just have to finish sorting through everything.
I'm pretty sure I saw you two in the corral next to me! I was the grumpy one up too early in the morning wearing two ponchos to stay dry and warm.
What??? Oh man, I wish I had seen you, I would have screamed hi! But mostly I was so focused on the rain that I wasn't looking for anyone.
And I completely agree with your assessment of Mile 5 - I don't know what kicked in for me, but I really picked up pace on the Boardwalk to the point where I felt like I was flying. Maybe it was because I knew it was almost over and my warm, dry car was waiting for me? IDK.
For me I think it was that the rain finally let up and I was hoping I could finish relatively dry. That didn't happen.
But a warm, dry car is definitely a good motivation to go faster.
But the rain SUCKED. Like major sucked.
Totally agree on that one.
I didn't stop for chip and dale during the 5k either. It was the first character stop and I asked my sister and she said oh we'll stop at the next one. We stopped at every other one except for whatever the black cat character was at the American Pavillion.
I think a lot of people didn't stop because it was the first stop. We thought about skipping it because we see Chip and Dale all the time, but decided to stop because why not.
I didn't run the 10k this year but did last year and loved the course. I can understand how it must've sucked running in the ran it sucked just standing in it at the beach club.
I actually really loved the course. I wish it hadn't been raining because it would have been an incredible experience had the weather been better.
My first 10k was in pouring rain too. It sucks so much. I'm glad you still ended up talking a lot of positives out of it.
So ... apparently 10K is just not a good distance for a dry race. Who knew?