13.2 miles of happiest place on earth!

The first weekend in January marked the end of my training for 2011.

Brian and I hot footed it down to Orlando and ran our tooshies off in the 

Disney World 1/2 marathon.

My gear below:

We actually left a bit early in the week so we could traipse around Magic Kingdom for the day.

It was awesome!  I love going with the kids but MAN!!! it was sure fun without them.

We hustled to animation trading posts to swap out undesirables.

We took our time at lunch only to find out we didn't really want to take our time at lunch!

It took me a minute, tops, to realize I didn't have to head count OR head off any drama.

And I took the whole rest of the day to enjoy it.

Then we woke Bright...uh...EARLY!

3:30 EST which was 2:30 our CST.  

Off to the shuttle to take us to the park and hopefully 

make it in time to get into our assigned corrals for the 5:30 start time.

We didn't.  Make it in time.

By the time we made it to the front, corral A had already started so Brian shot off with corral B and I made it up there in time to start with corral C.  Which really just meant we got to pass a bunch of slow pokes the first little while.  Just kidding.  They weren't slow pokes.  

Well, some of them were.

It was super chilly and really dark, but so fun.

This is me coming up on the entrance to Magic Kingdom.

I didn't want to stop to get a good focus so I just slowed a bit and almost got run down.

They had characters set up along the way that you could stop and get pictures with but there was always a line and I wasn't feeling like standing around waiting.

By the time I ran 11 miles though, I told myself I was going to stop at the next character because frankly, I was tired and could use a good excuse to rest a minute.

So that was my dude and there was no line.  10 second rest wasn't really what I had hoped for.

 Brian finished a good 1/2 hour before I did.  By the time I found him he looked like he hadn't done much more than walk over from the shuttle!

They handed out these foil emergency blankets when we finished because 

it was still cold and we were all sweaty.  Brrr.  They helped a ton actually.

Later that afternoon we hoofed it over (quite gingerly on my part - I was so sore!) to BOMA.

A fab buffet at the Animal Kingdom Resort suggested to us by my dear brother.

This is my dessert plate.

It was such a great weekend.  And I haven't run a step since.