So Sunday, Mother's day and to complete the Pixie dust challenge and to gain my 3 extra medals..I ran another 13.1 miles. I'm going to split these into 2 days cause there's so many. Since my knee Injury Ii was worried I wouldn't be able to run it. I mean I'd complete it easily but no PR ( Personal Record ), I hadn't trained for this run, Hadn't ran since February, and definitely wasn't where I was last year when running. At this point I just wanted to finish. But honestly there's something that comes over you when you run, especially a Disney race. There's so much adrenaline and you you just go. I've never been one to do interval's and I hate when one stops so I just Go. So my plan was to run Intervals. 1 mile...2 miles...3 miles...By this time my knee starts to hurt BUT it was good! So I thought I'd go another mile then another then another. At this point I was at mile 6 and exiting the parks to go to the streets. I for sure thought Id do Intervals or be in pain at this point but no, I was good. I also noticed a girl in front of me who had a great pace and was holding conversations perfectly with numerous people. So I thought, well I just follow her for a while and see how I go. 7, 8, 9, 10...Still good and following my new friend. I would speed up to get at the breaks and walk just enough for a sip or two and let her pass then catch up. At this point I thought well, I basically have a 5K left so I should just keep going. Anyone can do that and my knee was fine. At mile 13 Ii took off and left my friend...sorry Pocahontas ( thats what she was dressed like ) but the finish line is in sight. My goal, besides finishing was 2:45. I had a 2:59 in Florida and wanted to submit a 2:45 for future races. I had no Idea where I was but I was just gonna keep going. My finish time....2:08...Wait, what? 2:08!!!! HOW did that happen? I was amazed! And I felt good. Of course I went straight to First aide to Ice my knees and Iced them to death after but I felt good!
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| After the 10k we went back to the expo |
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| Trader sams for our traditional dinner |
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| As always, we waited forever |
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| Carb loading |
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| My 1/2 Marathon outfit |
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| My steps after the 10K day |
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| The morning's insanity |
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| Can't wait to get my coast to coast and Blue medal! |
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| We took our last picture before going to separate corals |
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| Waiting to go in Coral B. Which but the way is so much better being up front for once! |
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| They told every one to put your phone on flash light and look back at all the pixie dust. It looked cool |
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| GO! |
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| Going through good ole ToonTown |
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| First Photo stop, I kept going. The line was kinda long. |
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| Ran into my friend and old manager Tamarah |
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| 1 Down, 12 more to go. |
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| Matterhorn |
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| Going through through the castle |
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| Wendy and Peter |
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| Going through Downtown Disney to get to DCA |
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| Fun Wheel |
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| DCA |
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| The rides were going on. |
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| 2 down |
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| Carsland |
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| Exiting Carsland |
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| And going through Bugs land |
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| And back into the park. |
