Grumpy's Wife
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- Jan 28, 2005
Rachel did a really good job with the pictures. I just love the Alice in Wonderland float.
Day 5 - Disneyland Paris Inaugural Half Marathon
Part 1 - Race Morning
We woke up nice and early this morning as the hotel had a shuttle bus arriving at 5.30am. We got dressed and made our way down to the bus stop and joined the other runners waiting. We waited... and waited... and waited but no bus arrived. We could see the bus driving past and realised that there was literally one bus running for all four hotels and it was obviously getting full each time! I ordered a taxi from reception as I wasn't hanging around and taking a risk! Myself, Rachel, Nick (who we shared the taxi with yesterday) hopped in and offered the spare seats in the 6 seater to some other runners that had been waiting with us. The taxi was 5-10mins max and we were charged 25e which is absolutely outrageous but I'd rather pay it and save on stress!
(Side note an uber ride two weeks ago for the same journey was 6e!)
Km markers are kinda nice because they are more frequent and it breaks the longer race up a bit more..
For some reason the official photo has 'finish line' in French on it?? I don't like how all the official photos has banners
We were having such a blast but I was already having some right leg issues (forever my problem) and I knew at this point that I was going to struggle with the non park portions of the course... which was only like... 16 KILOMETERS!!!
Then we came across one of favourite character stops EVER...
I'm just going to leave this section on that awesome note... IT'S ONLY THE SULTAN!!
Rachel did a really good job with the pictures. I just love the Alice in Wonderland float.
That parade looks awesome!! Really great pictures!
I LOVE this parade. The music is still stuck in my head. I think it's one of my favourite Disney parades. I'm sad I will miss it and Dreams. I'm sure the new shows are good, but I wish we'd watched them both a second time. We weren't thinking about them being changed and planned to see them when we went back.
We'll be there Sunday. I've purposely avoided any videos of the new parade and illuminations. I want to see them fresh.
THE SULTAN!!! DYING. You guys got some awesome character pics, the one with the chipmunks is SO cute!
WHAT is with those selfie stops? Cut it out, runDisney!!
Wow! The Aladdin group shot is amazing!! You're definitely getting some great and varied character stops with this race. The pictures are all great! And that is fun that they did km markers. That's a lot more signs that they had to print haha
Yay! The Half!
I can't believe the bus situation. I would be freaking out! And the cost for that taxi was outrageous!
KM markers are nice to break up the distance, but that's a lot more stopping you're doing. Did it become an issue to get all the sign photos? I'd also have a problem with the conversions. I'd spend most of the race trying to do math in my head and just getting confused.
Not only does it have "Finish Line," but it also says Kids Races. They biffed on that one!
Uh oh on the leg issues. Hope you were able to finish strong!
You got some GREAT character photos, and I feel like you've just begun the race!