roxymama
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
Welcome to my first official Disneyland Trip Report covering the Tinkerbell Half Marathon and Mother's Day weekend!
Cast
@roxymama That's me!
I'm 36, Full-time working mom of a 4yr old, Running Enthusiast & Disney Obsessive. I've been to WDW a bunch of times but this is only my second trip (in 12+ years!) to DL/DCA!
My hobbies include drinking caffeine, hoarding makeup and clothes, and cooking/baking all the food.
This is me attempting to be cool.
but this would be a little more accurate...running clothes, glasses and ponytail...always:
@AuntieBean is my sister who lives in Austin, TX with her hubby, cat Neo and birdie Swoop. She's another Disney lover, but also loves Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, anything Sci-Fi, Legos, kpop, cats and pretty much anything arts n' crafty. The last time we went to WDW together was in 2005 and this is her first trip to DL/DCA. I'll refer to her as Bean during this TR. Although she's older, she's waaaay shorter than me (she's gonna give me a hard time for saying that) so she's still my "little sister."
And finally we have our matriarch...our mama...M.E.
She's the original Disney lover of the family, taking us to WDW often when we were younger and outfitting us in all the coolest Ariel and Belle stuff in our youths. Mom's most recent trip was to WDW in 2014 during Halloween. Unfortunately between then and now she's had to battle colon cancer, breast cancer (beat it!) and now the colon cancer again. She's fighting the good fight and in between treatments so at the last minute got the all clear to join us if she felt up to it. So there will be quite a bit of information about getting around the parks in a wheelchair which was new to all of us. Oh, and her favorite is Minnie.
Brief History/Motivation for this trip:
Back in 2015 my good friend signed up for the WDW full marathon and something in my brain clicked that I'd like to eventually give running through a disney park a go. I was 0% a runner, but enjoyed long walks at leisurely paces. I was also carrying around some extra weight and my lifestyle was getting more sedentary the farther removed from my 20's I got. So I started training for 5ks with the goal of the 2016 WDW 5k in January. I went a little crazy and ended up running a 5k almost every month. Joining the disboard's WISH/running threads got me really hooked. In 2016 I ran my first 10k(s) and a 15k all as a lead up to the ultimate #1 bucket list running goal off all time...The 2017 Tinkerbell Half Marathon!!
You can read all about my journey, training and race recaps in my running journal in my signature. I've gone from a borderline XL to a Med in a lot of clothes...improved my race pace by minutes...and fallen in love with running around all over the place. It's also an amazing excuse to get to Disney parks more often.
I needed an accomplice for my trip and my sister quickly agreed to join me as my cheering squad so we soon had an all girls weekend in the works with my mom added on for extra specialness since it would be Mother's Day weekend.
Stay tuned for three days of fun, sweat, and happy tears...
Cast
@roxymama That's me!
I'm 36, Full-time working mom of a 4yr old, Running Enthusiast & Disney Obsessive. I've been to WDW a bunch of times but this is only my second trip (in 12+ years!) to DL/DCA!
My hobbies include drinking caffeine, hoarding makeup and clothes, and cooking/baking all the food.
This is me attempting to be cool.
but this would be a little more accurate...running clothes, glasses and ponytail...always:
@AuntieBean is my sister who lives in Austin, TX with her hubby, cat Neo and birdie Swoop. She's another Disney lover, but also loves Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, anything Sci-Fi, Legos, kpop, cats and pretty much anything arts n' crafty. The last time we went to WDW together was in 2005 and this is her first trip to DL/DCA. I'll refer to her as Bean during this TR. Although she's older, she's waaaay shorter than me (she's gonna give me a hard time for saying that) so she's still my "little sister."
And finally we have our matriarch...our mama...M.E.
She's the original Disney lover of the family, taking us to WDW often when we were younger and outfitting us in all the coolest Ariel and Belle stuff in our youths. Mom's most recent trip was to WDW in 2014 during Halloween. Unfortunately between then and now she's had to battle colon cancer, breast cancer (beat it!) and now the colon cancer again. She's fighting the good fight and in between treatments so at the last minute got the all clear to join us if she felt up to it. So there will be quite a bit of information about getting around the parks in a wheelchair which was new to all of us. Oh, and her favorite is Minnie.
Brief History/Motivation for this trip:
Back in 2015 my good friend signed up for the WDW full marathon and something in my brain clicked that I'd like to eventually give running through a disney park a go. I was 0% a runner, but enjoyed long walks at leisurely paces. I was also carrying around some extra weight and my lifestyle was getting more sedentary the farther removed from my 20's I got. So I started training for 5ks with the goal of the 2016 WDW 5k in January. I went a little crazy and ended up running a 5k almost every month. Joining the disboard's WISH/running threads got me really hooked. In 2016 I ran my first 10k(s) and a 15k all as a lead up to the ultimate #1 bucket list running goal off all time...The 2017 Tinkerbell Half Marathon!!
You can read all about my journey, training and race recaps in my running journal in my signature. I've gone from a borderline XL to a Med in a lot of clothes...improved my race pace by minutes...and fallen in love with running around all over the place. It's also an amazing excuse to get to Disney parks more often.
I needed an accomplice for my trip and my sister quickly agreed to join me as my cheering squad so we soon had an all girls weekend in the works with my mom added on for extra specialness since it would be Mother's Day weekend.
Stay tuned for three days of fun, sweat, and happy tears...
Last edited:
