Belle Ella
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2007
I'm way too long-winded to condense my thoughts into one post...
2015 Dumbo Double Dare Trip Report (for anyone that is interested)
I'll read along!
I'm way too long-winded to condense my thoughts into one post...
2015 Dumbo Double Dare Trip Report (for anyone that is interested)
Kind of disappointed I didn't get one of the green gym bags.
Did anybody on this thread get one of the bags? Are they nice? Does anybody remember the price? Maybe I'll try on eBay....but I kind of hate to "reward" people that kept me from buying them in the first place!
@hauntedcity AWESOME pics! And you ran with the gun, so obviously it made it through TSA at the airport!
Thanks so much for sharing!
@hauntedcity.....great pics and thanks for sharing. How long did you wait for the "queens" to get your pic? The line was very long when we ran by.
The gym bags were $50. They are really nice and well made. I forget the brand, but it's a pretty good one. It should last a while. It's a little on the small side, but that's good for me. I'm glad I picked one up.
Only the half marathon, dumbo and coast to coast get the replica medal pins . The 10k and 5k do not. I always hoped for one every year when I was "just" doing the 10k.
What a week out in Disneyland I had! Still can't believe that after 8 months of planning it's all over but at least I have my first 1/2 marathon medal to show for it!
Got to see a bunch of friends that I haven't seen in quite a while which was fantastic! I had only ever done one other race prior and that was the TOT 10 Miler last year which I did by myself so it was so nice to have friends to run the 5K and my first half with. Wish my time had been better but honestly my feet just didn't have any speed left in them after 5 days in the parks prior to the race. Oh well, lesson learned but I did finish and never ever even saw the dreaded "balloon ladies" so I'm happy with that.
I want to thank all the wonderful volunteers who came out to supports us and those lovely people at mile marker 6.5 with the Redvines and oranges - just WOW!
OK - here is the only thing that I can really say annoyed me a little bit about the race. I was in corral E and got there around 4:30 am so I about 2 row back from the front. It did seem like every corral had the same problem - not enough room for all runners so the lines to get into the corrals if you arrived later were long. As they started to move corral D up - they were still holding my corral back with a rope. All of a sudden I see 1 man who was far back in the E line jump over the green mesh fencing and get at that back of D's corral. Well, that was all it took - a few more followed and then a few more and before you knew it seemed like everyone a the back of the E line was jumping in the D corral. Sorry but this doesn't seem very sportsman. They did start to move us up at that point and tried to discourage anymore people from jumping the line but just thought that was pretty poor on their part. I understand that honestly wouldn't affect my time but still didn't seem right.
I really did love the whole experience and now can't wait for my races next year. Already signed up for the DL Star Wars challenge in Jan. and the Princess Glass Slipper in February. So excited!
To anyone that might know - how is the Star Wars half course different from the DL half course? Will it be very different?
Also - ANIM8R - the gym bags were $50. I picked one up on Thursday morning and then kept debating that decision but it came in handy when flying home on Tuesday.
Kind of disappointed I didn't get one of the green gym bags.
Also, I was glad I didn't hear even once the any of the announcers ask "Anybody *just* running the <insert race here>?". I know they're trying to be funny but it still comes off wrong.
Speaking of which....there was a poor guy dressed as Buzz Lightyear. Between the 11 and 12 mile marker, he looked like he was struggling. One of the volunteers with a RunDisney shirt was encouraging runners going by her. She yelled, "C'mon Buzz - you should be way up there by now!" I know she didn't mean it like that, but - dang - that just made me cringe. Ugh!