@ZellyB, thinking of your family and wishing you the best.
Finally checking in now that I’m home. What a weekend! I came down with something on New Years Eve, it was at its worst by Thursday. I actually felt like running the 10k cleared me up, but then made the mistake of waiting around for character pics after and getting very cold set me back. I was annoyed I couldn’t find the meet up that morning. But had a good run.
Saturday night a combination of lots of coughing and nerves kept me up more than I wanted. I remember panicking around 1 am I’d be too exhausted to finish. Felt awful as I parked and walked to the start area. Unfortunately the traffic I hit kept me from making this meet up too. But I started to wake up and feel better as I walked to my corral. Went off in the first wave of D and then enjoyed every minute
. Huge thanks to
@croach and everyone else for the character texts and updates. The banter was a nice distraction
Having been exhausted and sick I was terrified of a DNF. Whoever posted the balloon ladies start and told me how to track them sent me a lifeline. I totally underestimated my cushion and by the MK exit I knew I was safe. I then took almost all the pictures and rode RNRC, went by Everest too early to ride. I didn’t hate WWoS as much as I feared based on reports. I did walk a lot of it because about then my IT band started acting up. But it felt better from there, so the walking plus stretching in character lines probably helped. Grabbed the margarita my DH had waiting for me at Mexico and crossed with a smile and a mostly empty cup!
While the expo was a disaster, and parks were as bad as my Xmas-new years trips in years past, overall I had a great time. Definitely will do it again, thinking maybe Dopey 2020. And then I’ll make sure I plan better to make DATW. Although with how long my flight ended up delayed yesterday, definitely could have made the first few hours.