Marathon Weekend 2012-part 2
Yes, I know it is 10.5 months late. Sometimes you just don’t get around to things when you want to, then when you do have time you just don’t feel like writing a race report. I hate leaving things like this unfinished so I’m finally finishing my report from Disney’s Marathon Weekend 2012 events.
First up-Saturday and the Half Marathon. The Disney Half is a fun race and always has a lot of first-timers...this time my SIL was the first-timer which was a big reason behind why I went ahead and registered, setting myself up for a double half marathon weekend. We went to bed really early Friday night-around 7am-and I got up at 2am to have my breakfast and get ready. We headed over to the buses and once at the pre-race area I made my way over to the “H” tent to find the ROTErs while SIL hunted down some friends that came up to run with her.
Once it was time to head to the start corrals, we made our way over together to get lined up. We were in the next-to-last corral, so it was nice to know I had a bit of a cushion since I wanted to take it easy with the relay coming the next day-plus we started as close to the front as we could get. I knew SIL was going to be faster than me (isn’t just about everyone?) so after our corral took off, I ran for the first minute or so, then backed off to walk for a while before starting my intervals, watching her head off ahead of me. It was pretty comfortable out weather-wise-certainly better than the crazy frozen weekend of 2010!
I did my walk/run intervals for a while, then around mile 7 or 8 started backing off to mostly walk. I didn’t even see the bike people (the ones who carry those orange flags to warn that the pace girls AKA the balloon girls are nearby...meaning you’re falling behind pace) until after mile 9, but I never saw the orange flags this race and those balloon girls never passed me. The cushion of my corral placement and the fact that we were up at the front of the corral handled that for me. I wound up finishing in 3:45...yes, slower than the 16mm pace but again, this was mostly on purpose since I didn’t know how my body was going to react with two half marathons in one weekend. I was just happy to have another half marathon complete and very proud of SIL for finishing her first one!
I didn’t take any pictures along the course this time, but here’s a pic of us afterward...not my best, but we both have Donald Duck bling around our necks so that’s all that matters!
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