1/2 Marathon #3

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!

After the 10k we went back to the expo

Trader sams for our traditional dinner

As always, we waited forever

Carb loading

My 1/2 Marathon outfit

My steps after the 10K day

The morning's insanity

Can't wait to get my coast to coast and Blue medal!

We took our last picture before going to separate corals 

Waiting to go in Coral B. Which but the way is so much better being up front for once! 

They told every one to put your phone on flash light and look back at all the pixie dust. It looked cool 

GO!

Going through good ole ToonTown 

First Photo stop, I kept going. The line was kinda long. 

Ran into my friend and old manager Tamarah

1 Down, 12 more to go.

Matterhorn

Going through through the castle 

Wendy and Peter 

Going through Downtown Disney to get to DCA 

Fun Wheel

DCA

The rides were going on. 

2 down

Carsland

Exiting Carsland

And going through Bugs land

And back into the park. 

13 miles and DONE

Well that was fun and a bit crazy but still I would totally do it again! After we completed the 13 miles it was another 2 just out of the finish line to grab all our goodies and walk back toy our room. But by the time we were done we were starving and cold! Of course all the places to eat had huge lines so we had to wait a but when we got our food it was Delish!

Pre show RUN!

They always have a big Headliner for the 1/2 and full day so we headed over to the start which was right next to our hotel. We walked around a bit, ate some bagels and Banana's and got up nice and close to see Snoop Dog. It was a pretty good show! He went on for about 45 mins and played a ot of old school songs. We were in the 3rd and last wave to leave so the wait was quite a bit. That was really the only worst part. When you need to run 13 miles you dont really want to wait for a few hours before. Needless to say I cant wait to do this again next year, I hope!