DOOM1001
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 23, 2003
I spoke to a bunch of people on the course who had to start in later corrals because of a bus breakdown on Bueno Vista headed to the race. Apparently it negatively impacted thousands of runners. I was in G, so it only caused me to be further back in my corral.
I was stuck in that traffic,I live locally and drove over,I came down Bonnet Creek and turned on Buena Vista,it was 4:10am.I then sat in traffic barely moving until 4:45-4:50,at that point we were by Victory way and I just said if I stay in this traffic I might not get there for the last corral,it was just a sea of red tail lights with no sign of it starting to move.I made the right but scary at the moment decision to turn left on Victory way to get Osceola Pkwy to then get to World Dr.It was scary cause I had no idea if Osceola would be closed and then I would be in a worse situation.Luckily from the time I turned on Victory there was no traffic at all or closures,in the Epcot lot in 5-10 minutes.If I would have stayed in that traffic my stress level would have put me in a place I did not want.I originally wanted to start near the back corrals to take it easy on the race,Even getting out of the traffic I didn't make it in time for my corral (D),I ended up leaving in the third wave of F.Seriously if I stayed in that traffic I may have gotten to the Epcot parking lot near 6am or later.