Fall Feast 5K
3AM comes early, especially when you are waking up this early to run ‘just’ a 5K. Only at Disney! It also didn’t help that my husband wasn’t running this race so he laid there in bed and just played on his phone while I got ready. I ended up leaving the room about 15 minutes after I woke up and I headed on my way downstairs.
Elevator Selfie
There was already a bus loading out front so I hopped on with other people in varying stages of alertness. Right at 3:30AM, the bus pulled out and headed to Animal Kingdom. It wasn’t a very long ride until we did an obstacle course of driving through the parking lot. I did the long walk from the bus stations to the start area. As I had no cash, no id, no credit card - there was no coffee or snack in my future so I got in line to meet Minnie as Mickey’s line was entirely too long. While going through the line, I scared
@rteetz as he wasn’t expecting me to say hello to him this morning so I was amused. The photopass person was rather blurry this morning.
Mickey with a random stranger
Minnie & Me
After my Minnie picture, the corals were now open so I headed that way to hang out until 5:30AM. I was lucky I ended up by two chatty women that made the time go by really fast. My friend, Carol also stopped by for a selfie. She was running the 5K with her daughter and family/friends but she was expecting the daughter to start out too fast and then walk. (She was right)
Carol & I
Start Line
Not long after 5:30AM, I was past the start line and beginning the awful one mile loop around the AK parking lot. I had that portion of any race as the parking lot is no fun. They tried to make it a little better with a dj but eh, still a parking lot! I also was doing this 5K as a walk as um, I hadn’t trained and 5Ks aren’t timed so why bother? (I realize this is probably a horrible thought process about them but I just wanted my Lady & Tramp Medal!)
Continuing with bad race photos - we entered Animal Kingdom right before Mile 1.
Mile 1 had a very boring mile sign but its been so long since I’ve done a Disney 5K - I kinda forgot they phone those end and keep the better ones for the 10K and longer races.
They had Meeko out but his line was horrible.
They had the Tree of Life doing its nighttime show during the race which was awesome to see.
Pandora was also all lit up.
As we entered Africa, Rafiki was out where I got another blurry photo.
Everest was also very pretty this morning.
This photo was taken somewhere between Mile 1 and 2. Most photos from this race will never see the light of day as I take horrible race photos and this is the best of the worst.
Pluto was out in Asia.
And then I hit Mile 2:
At the out and back - they had clips from Lady & The Tramp Playing. They were playing the Bella Notte clip.
Then it was Mile 3
And done!
I actually ended up getting my medal from another disboards member -
@Bree! It was nice to see her out and I believe she enjoyed volunteering, especially at medal hand out.
Picked up my powerade and foodbox (which had no oreos but instead pretzels, fake cheese chips and 2 other things that went into the trash) It was then a long walk to the buses where eventually I made it back to the room to clean up and get dressed for the day as we had a special meal planned at MK because of this race!