Yub nub! I ran today’s Star Wars Dark Side 10k as an Ewok. The revised runDisney costumes and weapons policy had me a little nervous about running with my spear but I figured if they were allowing plastic swords and lightsabers that I’d be ok… And I was fine. Nobody batted an eye at this […]
It is I, BB-8KSH. You may not recognize me with my mouse ears. But that’s how I roll when I’m at the inaugural Star Wars Dark Side 5K. It was a typically early morning for a runDisney event, albeit crowded earlier than even I expected given my mantra of “I should get there early… maybe […]
Maybe I wasn’t in the mood. Or maybe I was just overwhelmed with the volume of people and noise. But I was in a bit of a snit as I went through the Star Wars Half Marathon (Dark Side) Expo this afternoon. They had opened at 10 AM and I was there around 12:30/1 o’clock. […]
For some reason, I’ve gotten into the notion of costume running for shorter distances. I blame that turkey costume for the Turkey Trot 5K last year. It was so surprisingly reasonably priced over at Amazon… and with Amazon Prime it was here so quickly… They say people with Amazon Prime spend more money at Amazon […]
A few weeks ago I read a runner’s blog posting on the ever increasing runDisney registration prices. It was a worthy topic, one I agreed with, but I didn’t love the way it was written. Maybe that’s ironic, that I would be judging anyone else’s writing given the posts I’ve done here. But if the […]
My brother came out to cheer me on! That was the highlight of the day for sure. It’s always nice to have somebody in your corner. It’s been awhile since Steve and I got to hang out and while driving down to Anaheim at 3 AM isn’t perhaps the best use of our time together, […]
At 3:45 AM on the I-5 South about 10 miles from Disneyland there was an accident. Traffic was brought to a virtual standstill. I say virtual because though I stopped and had been sitting waiting for the various merging of lanes and traffic to de-jam, I got rear ended. So an accident sparked another accident, […]
No matter how many of these things I do, I always have a bit of nervous anxiety overload the night before a race. Tonight is the night before a 10K down in Disneyland as part of their Rebel Challenge Star Wars Half Marathon Weekend. I’ve got my running gear laid out, a bag of clothes […]
Always have a rain plan. You never know what race day is going to bring so plan on things going awry or not being ideal conditions. It’s true for runners and it’s true for race directors. It was a rainy, damp but 60-ish degree morning for today’s 10K at Walt Disney World. And yet runDisney […]
Over the years I’ve been to a lot of running expos. More often than not these days, run organizers are requiring runners to attend the expos to pick up their bib number and timing chip. Part of this is a security measure to curtail unsavory nefarious folk from illegally entering the race with running desires […]