Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend Part 1

Jenny and I flew out to California on August 28th for the Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend.  We flew into San Diego and drove halfway to Anaheim before calling it a night.  Re wanted to get to the race expo early the next morning, so we got up and were on the road early.  We got to the expo at about 8:30 and found that they were sizing people for the RunDisney New Balance shoes which we wanted, so we got sized for them and got our ticket to pick them up in the expo.
We then got in the LONG line for the expo itself.  At 10AM the Expo opened and we were on the move into the small area of official race merchandise for the Disneyland Weekend.  We were looking primarily for the Dumbo Challenge merchandise as that was what we were going to be running for the weekend.  We finally found the merchandise and it was a complete free for all trying to get it.  I was able to get the shirt I wanted and Jenny also found the items she wanted so I then went to to pay for the merchandise...The line went to the end of the entire building and started looping back.  They eventually reorganized the line to wrap around itself and then go outside the Expo hall and then back in.  It took 2 hours to check out with this merchandise.  Once we got our merchandise we decided to get some lunch before going back for our race packages.
We walked into Downtown Disney and found a restaurant to sit down for a meal at.  After lunch we went back to the expo to get our packets and then drove to our hotel to check in.
We had to pick up our "Bacon Challenge" packets at another hotel.  I had my iPhone map it out and of course it took us the long way....  We made it though and got our Bacon Challenge medal and packet with lots of goodies!
We then wound down the day with dinner and turned in early for the 10k race the next morning.

No comments:

Post a Comment