• Home
  • About Me
  • So You Want to be a Runner...
  • Run Disney
  • Race Recaps
  • Running Bucket list
  • Chi Running
  • Primal Eating
  • New Years Resolutions
  • Where to Start
  • Saving Money!
  • Healthy Living Blogs
4 Well Rules
Eat Well, Sleep Well, Exercise Well and Be Well
A Formula for Healthy Living

2016 Inaugural Disneyland Paris 5k and Kid Races Recap

10/20/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
We were up at 4:50 and had wardrobe malfunctions with costumes that had to be dealt with. This caused us to head out late to breakfast but it was still open at 6 when we got there. The pre race breakfast was amazing! Bananas, apple, cereal, tea, coffee, juice, applesauce and yogurt. Having bottles of water would have been the only thing to take it from an A to a A+++. 

We headed out and the walk wasn't too bad. About 10 minutes over to the event arena (including going through security) where we checked our bag and headed to the pre race area. There was not much there but 2 photo background opps and a long line for Portopotties. We split into corrals (I was in A and everyone else started in C). The sign said portopotty in the corrals but I did not find them. There were a few tucked behind a wall and I asked multiple volunteers and they all said to keep walking forward. It may have been a language barrier and I did not want to disobey/be that American. When I got in the corrals, there was random tape volunteers were holding up and told us to stop. Turns out they were splitting us into waves which was new. I ended up making friends with a CM that works at Cosmic Rays, met ladies from LA as well and saw a few people I know. 
​

The race announcers spoke in both English and French which was interesting. They had high energy and actually weren't annoying. No stupid skits, just chatting and it helped pass the time. No French national anthem and I was a bit bummed as I really like the French one. They announced the start of the race and shot off fireworks about 2 min before the wheelchairs so I have no pics of the fireworks. For each group, they launched smoke which was new (see above). ​
Picture
I was in the third wave after the wheelchair and the first release. I took off and knew I would have to weave more than I would have liked. However something pretty amazing happened. The course went downhill towards the DL entrance and the path splits, and they were sending everyone right. When I got up there, they opened the left and I took off. I ran all the way to Main St with NO ONE AROUND ME. Look at this picture below-this was the first picture this photo pass person had taken! I gave high fours to all of the workers and couldn't believe I was the only one. This is hands down probably the most special rundisney experience I have ever had. When I got to Main Street, it was still split so I basically made it down to the castle with almost anyone in front of me (see the picture above-everyone was on the right of the cones and no one was moving over). I knew I had to slow down (a 7:50 pace for .5 miles is probably not the best way to start a race) and started stopping for pics. 
Picture
Picture
I stopped for a castle pic, Cruella who screamed out puppies and Jafar. ​
Picture
Picture
 I turned the corner and got a photo pass pic with the castle. (Banner is incorrect but I still love it!)
Picture
We continued to Discoveryland (their Tomorrowland) and saw a gorgeous sunrise. ​
Picture
Around the corner we hit the 1km which was welcomed but I thought it was a mile and was very confused. I stopped for Chewbacca and R2D2. ​
Picture
We continued around the back to Fantasyland and I stopped for a picture with Rabbit and Eeyore and everyone else caught up with me! 
Picture
We continued passed Small World and stopped for Thumper and his girlfriend, Blossom.
Picture
We continued around fantasyland and took turns using the restroom while I waited for Mary and Bert and penguins. Unfortunately Mary and the penguin left! Ugh. But we had already waited a good 10 minutes so we took a pic with Bert. 
Picture
We ran through the Castle and had to stop for a pic!

Picture
We ran into frontier land and Jessie and Woody were there but the line was closed. We passed phantom Manor and continued backstage to Walt Disney studios park.  My first time seeing and running in this park! All characters were pulled but I for sure saw Remy, Spider-Man and other characters in other people's pictures. Even though there were no characters we made our own photo stops as the park has great ones! we stopped at ratatouille, tower of terror, and others. 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Izzy did very well but got tired towards the end so we slowed down and just chatted. The course exited and went backstage before finishing with a weird loop. Basically you saw the finish line but then looped around. ​
Picture
a battle to the finish for these two!
My finish time was 37:32 running (8:48/12:31/15:25/7:54). However my elapsed time was one hour longer at 1:37 HAHA. Yes I spent an hour stopping. No, I would not have changed it for anything. 

​When we finished we got food: chocolate sport drink, water, and Powerade. We waited for pictures for over 10 minutes so they definitely needed more photo areas. Afterwards we got a bag with food-an apple, peanuts, fruit snacks. It was great to have somewhere to store our stuff for the walk back. Walked back to the room and headed to shower. Starting at 7 means getting back late! Got izzy ready to go to the kids race. and then we got ready and went to watch the kids race
Picture
The kids race is just adorable. We Could see the 200 across the lake then watched the 400. All the races went off in waves. 
At the end we were able to see the start of the 1k and Sophie, a young girl with cerebral palsy with braces that walked the 1k with her dad! Turns out her parents are in one of the Disney groups I am in and I loved learning about her stories! ​Someone gave her their 5k medal :) 
Picture
Izzy ran as Rapunzel for her 400 m and look at her go! She was one of the only in costume :) And as you can tell below, she was just a tad in love with this one as she wore it around the park all day! 
Picture
After the kids race we went to breakfast and fell in love-coffee, tea, juice, breads-croissant, chocolate croissant, rolls, butter, jam, cream cheese, ham, cheese, yogurt, applesauce. We were stuffed and knew we wouldn't need to eat a proper lunch with an early dinner. I will do a separate post on touring Disneyland Paris. 

Overall, it was a fabulous race and considering that it was inaugural made it even better! I would hands down recommend this race to anybody. Most of it was in the park and the 14+ character stops and other stops was incredible and well worth the money paid. ​

Anyone else run the Disneyland Paris 5k? Would you run it? 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Follow

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

    Picture

    Author

    A late 20-something navigating the world trying to stay sane with Chi Running, Primal Eating and Healthy Living!

    Tweets by @4wellrules
    PR's
    5k-:28:03 (Santa Anita Derby 5k-4/16)
    10k- :58:05 (Christmas Run-12/14)
    Half- 2:13:14 (Sunset Strip-4/15)
    Full- 4:56:48 (LAM-2/16)

    DISNEY PR's
    10k-1:19:18 (2015 Tinkerbell 10k)
    Half-2:32:56 (2016 Tinkerbell Half)

    Archives

    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    2013
    2014
    2015
    Angels 5k
    Avengers Half
    Bling
    Carlsbad 5000
    Coaster Run
    Costume
    Culver City
    Devin
    Devin Blogs
    Disney
    Disneyland
    Disneyland Paris
    Disneyland Paris Half Marathon
    DLPHM
    Dopey Challenge
    Dumbo
    Dundee Hills
    Eating
    Food And Wine
    Fridaylinkup
    Friday Link Up
    Fueled By Fine Wine
    Fueling
    Goals
    Greatrace
    Great Race
    Groceries
    Grocery-matchups
    Guest Blog
    Healthy
    Healthyliving
    Healthy Living
    Holidays
    Jeff Galloway
    Jules And Mal
    Juliana
    La-marathon
    La-rock-n-roll
    Long Beach Marathon
    Magical Mickey Mondays
    #nerdgirlsontherun
    New-foods
    Newyears
    New-years
    NYC Marathon
    Princess Half Marathon
    Quick-easy-meals
    Rock N Roll
    Rosemead 5k
    Rundisney
    Running
    Running PR
    Running PR
    Santa Anita
    Santa Monica Christmas Run
    So-you-want-to-be-a-runner
    Star-wars-dark-side
    Star-wars-light-side
    Star Wars Weekend
    Tinkerbell
    Tower-of-terror-10-miler
    Training-for-tuesday
    Traveling
    Triumph-thursdays
    Tuesdays-on-the-run
    Universal-studios-orlando
    Waltdisneyworld
    Walt Disney World
    Wine
    Wineanddine
    Wine And Dine
    Workouts

     photo b4ab3249-93bf-40fd-be35-fd2f080ef45d_zps7c103516.jpg
    Amazon Store

    Thanks for supporting the blog! 

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.