I had a fabulous weekend! I did the 10K, half and DD did the kids race. All in all I felt that RunDisney put on a wonderful event!
We didn't get to the expo until Friday afternoon. We had zero lines for bib and shirt pickup. The expo was busy but not packed. Picked up a new sparkle skirt with no lines. Got some official merchandise with no lines. The only line I waited in was after the 10K I waited 1.5 hours to get taped up at the KT tape booth.
Man we lucked out and got some amazing weather!
The 10K was crowded for sure. But I think thats cause I started in the back of D and there were tons of walkers in front of me. In the end it was ok cause I wasn't trying to get a PR or anything. My friend and I had fun, took pics, ran when we could and just enjoyed the course. Caught up with Patty at one point too! We did fall behind the balloon lady (who had a flag and not a balloon) and had to sprint to get ahead of her coming out of DCA! Take about a nervous moment!
The kids races were organized well. They told us right where to line up. I stood in the line with DD and my mom went to the finish line to get her pic. my only complaint is that I didn't get to see her race. I didnt want to run with her as she's almost 7 and she wanted to do it by herself plus I was wearing my flip flops by that point. And after her line moved forward to the start there just wasnt a way for me to get to a spot to watch her. But she had a blast. She loved getting her medal. Picking her up at the finish went smoothly. If I get the chance to do another DL run I'll for sure sign her up for the kids race again.
The half went better than I thought it would. We started in C so we didn't have an issue with tons of walkers in front of us. We said we weren't gonna stop for pics but there were a couple lines we couldn't pass up like the Lost Boys and Marie! I enjoyed the changes to the course that were made inside the park. I could see better this year in the area near GRR and TMRR. Enjoyed my time in the parks immensely! The streets of Anaheim were decent too I thought. The highschool bands were fun. Love the red hat ladies. I was thrilled that the water stations all still had both water and powerade when we got there. And after the fiasco of a finish line that I experienced at Nike this past year it was so nice to experience the finish line at Tink this year! So well organized I thought.
And I think the cast members of the
Disneyland resort were amazing. You know they saw thousands of people wearing their medals this weekend. Yet so many of them still took the time to say congrats and actually ask how the race went! It was genuine and it wasn't forced. I had at leat 5 CM's actually have a converstion with me that lasted 5 minutes or so about the race and my experience with it and they said they were considering doing it next year.
So all in all it was a truly magical weekend for me. I'm bummed about the race being moved to Mothers Day weekend. I just dont see a way for me to pull that off. Keeping my fingers crossed that DL is given another race on a weekend that I can make it!
RunDisney did an awesome job. I paid the same price for Nike as I did for Tink and the product that RD delivers is so superior to Nike. Dont get me wrong, Nike is a beautiful course with some great bling but RD just suprasses it in quality and customer service all the way around.