2013 Inagural Dumbo Double Dare

What is the Dumbo Double Dare? It's a new runDisney challenge.  You run the Disneyland 10K on Saturday followed by the Disneyland Half Marathon on Sunday or a total of 19.3 miles. All participants that finished both races receive a third medal.

Saturday, August 31st - Disneyland 10k

It's 5:30 am. We are all "up and running", looking fresh and happy, don't we? Zzzzz

Mile 1 - "It's hot and humid today!"

Mile 2 - "¡Que calor!"

I noticed that the Disney staff member that is about to take my picture is from La Coruna (Spain). Her name is Mayte. I asked her to be in the picture with me.

We arrived in beautiful Radiator Springs. Lightning McQueen and Mater gave us a welcome!

Flowers are still blooming regardless the weather :)

Mile 3 - "¡Que humedad! I feel like I am in Orlando"

Few minutes later, I reunited with my friends and the "other" Monsters.  This is our last stop in California Adventure before heading to Disneyland.

Mile 4 - "I should have worn my Queen of Hearts running costume"

"Off with their heads" she said. I am just "playing" with the cards.

You can tell that Halloween is around the corner.

One more picture with the beautiful ladies!

There is always time for some tea!

Mile 5 - 90 degrees and 40% humidity, perfect condition to practice hot yoga!

After a quick encounter with the Queen of Hearts, we crossed Sleeping Beauty's castle.  What a shame! Aurora was not at home. I could have taken a shower!

Mile 6 -  How many grams of sugar do you think are in this muffin? :-)

The last .2. Oh noooo, it's over!!! 

What a FUN race! Only one problem ... aha, you guessed right! It was hot and humid!

After the race, we went to Paradise Pier and enjoyed a nice birthday breakfast with Mickey & Friends. Thanks to all my family and friends who came up to celebrate!!

 

Sunday, September 1st - Disneyland Half Marathon

This was my third Disneyland Half Marathon. This race always falls on Labor Day Weekend which happens to be the closest weekend to my birthday.  Since I am a BIG runDisney fan I cannot think of a better way than to celebrate at the "Happiest Place on Earth" doing what I like the most: RUNNING.


Here we go again, it's 5 in the morning and we are all looking quite awake. Zzzzz.

 My goal this year was to run the entire half without stopping for pictures. After all, I had many good snapshots from the day before. However, like every year, I changed my mind the moment we arrived at California Adventure's Cars Land. It's so pretty.

 

From California Adventure, we proceeded to Downtown Disney before entering Disneyland. I stopped to take pictures with Merida from Brave but the lines were too long. Soon after, we were in the streets of Anaheim heading towards the Honda Center and the Angel Stadium. Anaheim is not the most beautiful place in the world but the cheer squads and high school bands make up for it.

Like the day before, it's very hot and humid, perhaps too humid for my taste.   I was loosing my energy but I recovered rather quickly as we entered the stadium. This is probably one of my favorite parts of the race.  There were hundreds of people cheering for us. I was trying to get my picture on the giant Jumbotron but I couldn't locate the video camera.I thought 3rd year was the charm. Grgrgrg

Only 3 miles to go from this point.  I turned on the music and zoned out.  This sign made me laugh.

At mile 12, I met my friend April who participated in the Goofy Challenge with me earlier on this year. We ran together for a couple of minutes and celebrated soon after at the finish line. My official finish time was 2:19:21. It's slow but I was fine with it since I took my time to take pictures along the way.
  

With my friend April

With Team Sparkle

With my friends the MW

This concludes my 2013 runDisney races.

My next runDisney event is the 2014 Tinker Bell Half Marathon and the Glass Slipper Challenge in Orlando.