Dopey Challenge Training – Week 28 Will I make it to Disney

My last training run was actually an 8 ½ ride on my new exercise bike.

 

I packed up my gear and went to bed early the day prior to departing for Disney. I have a super early flight out of Spokane.

 

I arrive at the Airport at 4:00am for my 6:00am flight, however my flight got cancelled and rescheduled to 8:00am. This would not give me enough time to go home and come back, so I just hung out in the most boring airport in the nation for 3 hours.

 

I made it to Phoenix, AZ where my flight was delayed by another hour, so what to do…. What to do?? Airport bar hopping of course. I taste tested all the restaurant and lounges that served my favorite beverage…. Margaritas. 

Halfway through my adventures I got a text that my flight was coming in early and then shortly after it was moved back to an hour later. Good lord I’m never getting out of Phoenix. 

FINALLY way after midnight I arrived at my hotel in Disney world. I slept in before heading to the race expo to pick up my bib and buy any merchandise I can’t live without. 

The line to get into Merchandise was wrapped around the building and I was in line for well over 3 hours so when I got in I felt obligated to spend way too much money on merchandise, and I have absolutely no regrets about that at all. 

Training is all done, costumes are all complete and I made it to Disney. It all starts tomorrow. Stay tuned for all my race recaps on YouTube: runrunrosie.

 

Check out my final week of training, just click here!

Dopey Challenge Training – Week 27 We’ve come so Far

This week I competed all my runs on the Treadmill and it was also a week to look back at everything I’ve done over the past six months to get ready for the Dopey Challenge.

 

I started the training on day one with 112 degree sweltering in the heat to ending the training plan in below zero temperatures. There was also that black cloud the first few weeks of training where registration hadn’t even open up yet and the dread that maybe Disney wouldn’t open up in person running. 

 

It was all worth the pain and sometime misery because next week I leave for Walt Disney World and I can’t be more excited. Please Mother Nature, don’t do anything to delay my flights.

 

Next week………………….DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

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