Well, I just got back to reality after our W&D race-cation week. I feel like I am in need of an actual vacation now. Haha. I just need to go on the record and say that DL races will forever hold a special place in my heart and I will miss them greatly. This trip was very much go-go-go as we were doing the parks and the races, so my exhaustion level was HIGH.
10k Re-cap:
We went to bed around 12:30am and woke up at 3:00am, because everyone was stressing the "get on the bus before 4am thing". So we did. And we stood around for over an hour before the race started. I was so annoyed. The race itself was okay. I took off from my husband at the start, I was trying to sub:60 this race but the humidity got the best of me all weekend. The first four miles were god-awful boring, which is sad for a race that is only 6 miles long. Once we finally entered a park I remember yelling "only 2 miles to go!". I was pretty much all smiles then, but I was watching my pace and those spots where the course got narrow definitely slowed me down. I finished with a smile and waited for my husband at the end. The course was so much worse than any DL 10k I have ever ran. I was super disappointed. But I PR'd my time by a minute, so I guess that is good.
Half Marathon Re-cap:
I did not want to run this race at all. I was exhausted and my legs hurt and (insert all other excuses). But at least I got about 6 hours of sleep the night before this time. I still woke up early and got to the start too early, but it sucked even more because I was running without my husband so I had no one to talk to. The lines for the potra-potties were insane at the start. But I stood in line anyway just to kill time. It didn't help though because I had to stop at the porta-potties right before mile 2 and at that point I had given up on the whole race. PR was out of the window so I ran pretty slow the rest of the time. Again with the most god-awful boring race course, I calculated we did probably a 5k inside parks and that's it. I am not usually one to stop and take character pictures, but since my time was crap anyway, I stopped for 3 photos, which helped my legs a bit. My saving grace was that I found someone handing out beer and i was the happiest camper. My best miles were from 6-9. In the end, I can say I finished, I got my Coast to Coast, I cried, I smiled, I jumped. But I am uncertain I will come back to do another WDW race. To each their own, but my opinion is that DL races blow WDW races out of the water.
I hope everyone else had an amazing race weekend.
My heart hurts for the family of the young man who died.
And I finally nailed a good race jump picture.
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I was surprised to see that I was 3rd in my age group so that means the fast people don’t do Wine and a Dine.
No sleep before hitting I-4 Fri to get to the expo, but I made it, and even got over to EP for a short visit with friends (but no food - ugh!) Managed to eat a little soup and a few bites of grilled cheese before bed Fri, but definitely went into the 10K under-nourished. I'll say this, though: Tailwind to the rescue! I've been using it as my running fuel for months, but it did double duty keeping my blood sugar up when I couldn't really eat this weekend. 
I felt better for the half, but was still lower on energy than normal.
My only complaints were that they didn't do the multiple wave starts like they did at Dark Side; corral F was huge and two waves was not enough to spread things out. Also, the lines of porta-potties extending out into the course was a problem. 
