Subject: RE: Disneyland Half Marathon : Official Thread As I mentioned in the VM thread I'll be there, but only cheering this year (my wife, Liz, will be running...she runs it every year). I ran it in 2008 and 2009. Last year when she also ran and I didn't, after I said "goodbye and good luck" to her, I went out before the start and ran from mile 4 to mile 10.5 and back to mile 4 as a self-supported training HM (went 1:38 vs. my PR of 1:36...it was a very nice little training day). Definitely freaked out some of the teenagers who were just finishing setting up some of the aid stations to see somebody coming through early. Played a little math class word-problem game with myself estimating when I would encounter the lead runners as I was running back "upstream." Fun race...good expo, nice t-shirt and medal...just has a VERY early start time and the section of the course from when you leave the park around mile 4 until you get on the river path around mile 9 is a bit boring (industrial/commercial tract). |