This was the third time that we were participating in the runDisney Paris races! We've been looking forward to it from the moment the weekend of 2017 was over. We booked everything with annual passes discount in November 2017. In december 2017 I had a (keyhole) knee surgury, conclusion: my ligaments were torn. I decided I didn't want the surgery to heal them, because they couldn't garantee if the prognose will be better than what I was experiencing now. I started back from scratch in April, and on May 22nd my Jeff Galloway Challenge training started. I had to do the runwalkrun method, because I couldn't even run for 2minutes without knee kramps (yeah, very hard to explain what I felt. When I walked the pain went away).
We signed up for the 36K challenge! 5K on Friday night, 10K on Saturday morning and a half marathon on Sunday morning. Enough introduction, let's talk runDisney!
We stayed in hotel Santa Fe from Thursday till Monday. I am only doing a Trip Report about the races, not the parks.
Thursday 20 september: de Expo!
The Expo opened at 3PM, we went there around 5:30PM. There are signs everywhere to guide you to the Expo.
After we got our bib, we got all of our 5 tshirts at the same desk! That's a huge improvement, previous years we had to stand in line for each individual shirt and bib.
Corral placement was completly random, we got in B.
I always love the wall with the names of all the runners!
Still have to get the photos from the other camera from the Expo... The Expo is very small, and has very little merchandise! They fill the space up with merch that you can buy in the parks...
The 5K: Thanos themed!
We were Thor and the Winter Soldier! Unfortunally John had to throw away his hammer, they said it was a weapon... It was made out of styrofoam and was very light.
The entertainment wasn't very entertaining. A lot of French, and I have no idea what they were talking about. Something about making us ready to become an agent? And there would be lots of suprises on course.
There weren't any kilometer markers, there were infinity stones!
Before km marker 1 was the first character stop: Guardians of the Galaxy: Star Lord
en Gamora. We waited about 17minutes when they announced that Gamora would leave in 5min! We stood in line for her! Luckily, we got our picture with her! Star-Lord greeted me with "Hello princess", but I am a soldier!
We went through both parks on this course! Next stop was in Disneyland Park in Adventureland: Black Panther! The line was loooong! He took a little break while we waited, but that only took 3minutes. So glad that I met him, Wakanda Forever!
We lost a lot of time because of these two meets. We weren't even halfway and we were already 1 hour on course! Next characterstop were Thor and Loki! We already met Thor in July, but I really wanted a picture with Loki. Loki took a break, but we waited 25-30min in total, so when it was our turn, he was back! We did had to chose between taking a picture ourselfs, or let the photopass photographer take one. While we were in line, we saw the balloon ladies, and they passed us! That made my boyfriend a little worried, but I knew they don't swep on the 5K.
There was some really cool decoration in the Studio Tram Tour attraction! I regret that I didn't take more pictures.
Last characterstop was Captain America and Black Widdow. We skipped them, there was a really long line and we were way too long on course. We have met them in July, so we didn't mind to skip this stop.
Fi-nal-ly! After 1 hour and 41 minutes we finished! Our longest 5K ever! We were lucky to start in B, so we could do 3 out of 4 character stops. (My Garmin said the course was 5,65KM we had to zigzag across a lot of walker, so that must have been it.)
1 race down, 2 more to go!
