As I was about to get into my corral (Corral A), volunteers came up and were turning people around. They were yelling that Corral A was full and I had to go back. Huh? After trying to get past them, they wouldn't let me go, so I hopped a fence and got into the middle of Corral B. Since this was part 1 of Goofy's Challenge and I was going to run this easy anyways, so I thought it'd probably be okay.

The gun went off and everybody started running, kinda. It took about 3 minutes to get to the start and once up there it was pretty slow moving. I gotta sick of being stuck behind everybody pretty quickly so I moved off to the shoulder of the road, on the grass, and ran there. I ended up running on the grassy shoulder for the first 13 minutes of the race. After that I was able to get on the road and run my pace, but I was still weaving in and out of the cones on the side of the road. It sounds like I was blazing it up, but I just got stuck behind a big group of people.

Throughout the run I kept it pretty easy and just cruised along and checked out all the sites. It was fun running through the parks and seeing all the characters out there.

Towards the end of the race I picked up the pace to see how the body felt. For the last mile and a half or so I ran at marathon Goal Pace (or a bit faster) and it felt REALLY good. Nice! I kept that up and crossed the finish feeling really good and like I hadn't spent too much energy on this run.

Nothing really. This run was meant to be kept easy and that's what I did.

Walked through the finishing chute, re-hydrated, got some food and filled up my belly. I found my mom, stretched a bit then went back to the start to watch for Amy and her mom to finish.


Nothing.


Good race and fun course. I was kinda thrown through a loop when they told me my corral filled up and wouldn't let me in, but I got over it pretty quickly. All in all very well put together and I had a blast out there.