Wow - can't believe we hit 250 pages on the original thread already!! Love how chatty this group is!
I'm Suzi, staying at Riverside (in a royal guest room!!
) and I'll be doing the GSC!
On another note, I am having such mixed emotions about this trip! I haven't trained up past 10k yet, and I have 2 weeks off school right now but we're supposed to get a giant icy storm this weekend so I'm frustrated that I might not be able to get any runs in.. I'm starting to get really really worried about the distance of 13.1 miles ONE DAY after a 10k! I can do 10k pretty comfortably now so I am not stressing about that (I plan to just take it easy and save more energy for the half). I am a horrible procrastinator in life though and I'm finding it really difficult to convince myself that I CANNOT just procrastinate training and then just magically be able to run 13.1 miles all of a sudden! I'm not so worried about the balloon ladies - more so about getting injured! Is there any way to prevent injury?? (other than stepping up training at an appropriate rate)
On top of that, I'm stressed about having enough time to do race-related stuff (ie. wander the expo for however long I want, pre-race meetups, post-race meetups, etc) because my dad will be with me on this trip and I don't want him to be mad/bored/lonely/grumpy if I go off doing my own thing for a bit. He is not the type to be like "go have fun, don't worry about me I'll keep myself busy!" ...He's more the type to be like "where exactly will you be and precisely when will you be done and why would you ever go anywhere by yourself ever?!" And I have a feeling he won't approve of the meetups.
I am ALSO having a tough time envisioning myself at Disney in February! It bums me out that nothing special will be happening at Epcot (I've only ever been to WDW during F&W or F&G!) and I can't picture what the weather will be like since I've heard such completely opposite reviews of February Florida weather!!! When I reminisce about past Disney trips, the warm lovely Florida atmosphere is A GIGANTIC PART of my memories, and I don't think I'm ready to wear like ..a sweatshirt or jacket or long pants at Disney!
Sorry for the long and negative rant! I am just really upset that the primary thing I'm feeling isn't excitement this time....it's anxiety
If anyone has any suggestions or words of wisdom that would be greatly appreciated! I really need to get over this stressed out phase so I can get excited for the trip/races/DISNEY IN GENERAL!!
Hope everyone's winter training is going well so far!!