The Big Race

After months of preparation, Wendy, Jen and I boarded our plane to Orlando for the Disney Princess 1/2 Marathon weekend. This was the first 1/2 marathon for all of us and we were excited and a bit anxious at the same time. (For those of you non-runners, a 1/2 marathon is 13.1 miles.... a loooooonnnnnng run.) On Saturday morning, we picked up our race bibs, shirts and other running goods at the Expo.

We spent the afternoon exploring Downtown Disney and then had an AMAZING dinner at Ohana at the Polynesian Resort. After a little shopping at the Grand Floridian we headed back to our hotel room and tried to get to bed early. Key word... tried. We all eventually fell asleep and before we knew it, the alarms started ringing at 3:15 am. YIKES... that's early, but we had to board the buses by 4 am. So here we are.... Jazzy Jen, Wild Wendy and Sassy Sandra.... dressed and ready to go.

The race itself was awesome.... but what else would you expect from a Disney event. With the crack of the fireworks, we set off on our run. Most of the race was on the "highways" on the Walt Disney World property, but we got to run a small loop though the Magic Kingdom and Epcot. After 2 hours and 30 minutes running time, we were all super excited to cross the finish line. We placed approximately 6,160 out of 15,784 racers. Pretty awesome for first timers!