First, congrats to all the runners this weekend.
Well that was an interesting Goofy challenge. First - thanks to everyone for the tracking, meetups, etc. I didn’t make it to DATW due to a last minute decision from my friends to do the boarding group thing Monday for ROTR. Finally made it to Epcot at 3pm and saw the group near France, I think! Thanks also to
@DopeyBadger for all the coaching to everyone who posted In here. I’m definitely appreciative.
After my injury in late November and minimal running due to recover between that and the race, I already had low expectations. I did a half at home in the Pac NW two weeks before the race and felt pretty good. Mind you, it was something like 45 degrees out.
My last goofy was in 2018 - the cold one! This was a drastic change from that.
I took it easy in the half, especially towards the end. I was hot but not unbearably so. Stopped for a photo or two at the short lines. Good run, but a bit slow. I’m regretting not stopping for Christmas Duffy.
Sunday. Wow. On the bus from Shades at 3am and made it in plenty of time. My strategy going in was to run the first half and run / walk the second half. I figured this would get me in under 6, which is an all time PW (only other close one was when I almost got sick during Victoria and couldn’t eat for the last half). I managed to hold true to that, starting in D. Stopped for probably 5-7 photos but came in just under 6.
thoughts: there seemed to be more long stretches with nothing on the course than I remember from 3 prior fulls. Maybe it’s just me...
Blizzard beach was terrible. The parking lot felt long and then to have to look at the amazing water in the park? Torture.
post race bus annoyance - it was past when the road in front of SOG reopened, but the bus driver refused to go there. So we all had to walk from the bus stop in poly the longest half mile shuffle ever. Super frustrating.
Another fun and exhausting weekend! I’m really wishing RD would come back to
Disneyland. The logistics behind the east coast races are tough.