Day 4 of our FirstTimer's trip to WDW for runDisney 193

Today's the big day for the Springtime Surprise 10 miler! Follow along with us to see how we make out for the actual race.

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Transcript

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What time is it doing? It's so early. It's the middle early. Greetings from the middle of the night. Greetings from the night. It is really scary in the dark with nobody out here and these huge like Fantasia creatures. That's why I didn't like the all-star sports. We are uh we're sneaking off. We've got a bag full of like a full brunch. We're gonna be like offering quasar to the bus. Anyone care for us to come? It's possible I'm drunk. I'm not sure. It's gonna be fine. I'm kidding. I just, I just we're very early. We got up like we were supposed to, and we are gonna start a race. Oh, I see buses. I see buses on other people, which means it is today. It is today. Some people are running buses. That's gonna be. That seems like overkill. It doesn't count yet. It hasn't started yet. They're still gonna make you do the whole thing. We better go. We'll check in. Alright, it's almost our turn. 5 39. This has been so fun. The time went by very quickly. It really did. It didn't feel that long. We have lots of thoughts, lots of things to say, but it's gonna get loud here real quick, so we're gonna focus. Alright, guys. Five is the goal. And we did and we did five. And I'm still singing along, which means I'm not dying yet. I'm feeling good. The ladies are about a mile behind us. Yep. So we feel good about that too. Pretty much made to meeting. Like that's pretty much how it started. Yeah, we're doing that. Bath and breaks. We've done the bathroom breaks, we had water, we had powderade, we had our disgusting fuel dunk. Yeah. Unexpectedly terrible. Uh but we're doing it. Second later. How far are we here? We just passed 10k! We just passed 10k! So we're like six and a half.

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I'm not good at math, I don't really know about that, but we're on the highway now. The sun is not like fully doing its sun thing yet. Not that bad yet, right? Yeah. And we've got some shade from some giant hotels. So you know we're doing it. Oh no. Yeah. But we're uh we're doing it. It's about eight o'clock. The balloon ladies are about a mile behind us. So we're we're hanging in. So yeah, we're gonna keep at it. Second later. What are we doing? We did it! And now I live on the parking lot. Someone come get me. Someone come scrape me up and bring me my custom golf cart to Guardians, please. How we'll do a full recap later. I am fully broken, but I am on a total adrenaline. We did it. We did it. I can't believe we did it. So like at six, I was like, we're doing this. Like this is happening. We're 100%. We're finishing it. And then at mile eight, I was like, I'm not sure that I'm going to make it. And then mile nine, I was like, I don't want to scare you, but I do need to take out my inhaler right now. And in mile nine, the sun came out also, which was daunting. But at that point, we were both in the park. To be honest, if the sun had been full glazing the whole time, I think I would have had to spend. I would have called it five. Yeah. Five was the most fun part. But um, but yeah, definitely miles six through nine were extremely difficult. Nine was like cheerful because you knew you were almost there, but it was also extremely long. I want the record to show that my my thing on my phone does say it was closer to ten and a half miles. I just want everyone to know that. For the record. You are unbelievable. I know. Remember when you negotiated an A plus? I was like, I'm pretty sure I should have an A plus. I'm pretty sure you missed a plus there. But yeah, we we did it. We did it. We did it. Yeah. We ran a 10 miler. Now what are you gonna do, Haley? I'm gonna um not in this order. I'm gonna ride Guardians once, maybe twice. I'm gonna have so many mimosas and a steak the size of my face. That's that's the order. And I'm gonna, I'm also gonna nap and shower and maybe swim in the pool and go to Magic Kingdom. Okay. Those are the things I'm doing. Those are the things we're doing. We'll check back in later. Alright. Haley, what time is it now? No idea. We are um a shambles. Delirious. Delirious. It's uh it's 3.36. The last time we recorded was 9.25. Was that right after we did that? That was right. Yeah. It was at, I believe we were on the pavement. I love that it didn't even occur to us to record between then and now. No, I don't because we couldn't speak. We all right, so here's what happened. Haley, Haley had so many ambitions for this day, and I think it's so funny. It was so admirable. It was. But that was a different time. It was we were as a different person. A different person. What happened was we sat down on the pavement outside of the race, and then eventually the race was like, you have to go home. Like you can't we don't provide, you know, you have to get to the bus. We're kidding. They they sort of said that, but not to us like directly. Someone did come check on us as we tried. Because we had to like roll ourselves onto our hands and knees and then try to stand up, but I said something ridiculous on the way, and Haley like couldn't move because she was laughing so hard. So we did look like we were in physical distress. And I'm not saying that we weren't. Danielle made me laugh, and I was like shouting about my pelvic floor. And this woman was like, Are you just just checking on you guys? Are you guys okay? And I I'm looking at her, I'm like, you're like 411, we 110 soaking wet. Like, what are you gonna do with us if we're not okay, if we need assistance standing right now? But I appreciate your concern. So very sweet. She was very nice. I think she did not know why we were laughing so high. I was I was still on my hands. We hadn't gotten up. I was not all the way up. Oh my god. Yeah. So that's when we were still in the hilarity section of recovery. Um, and then things got real very quick. Things got real real quick because we had to go get our stuff. Haley's sock was completely full of blood. Something horrible has happened to them. I'm gonna sell it on eBay, so if you're interested, shoot me a DM. It can fund our next Disney trip, I think. Um and yeah, and then we had to decide because we were at like where even was that? What was that that we were in? A very far parking lot of Epcot. And we had intended to rope drop Guardians and then also use our Lightning Lane for Guardians. That was an idea that occurred to us on the course that may have been overambitious. That was like during the definitely to head into Epcot and get our Lightning Lane at least. Yeah, at least. Um, but we were so far from from Guardians. I was guys, I need you to know I was hottled. I was like inching a lot. We're still not great. We're still pretty sore, but I was literally hottled. I could not barely move. So what we decided to do instead was to take, and there were no buses to the front of Apcot. So, like, if you wanted I think they should they should that's some feedback for them. I don't know that no one else was thinking they were going to a park right then. That was on us. We know that now. But just in case, maybe there's a park bus and it makes the rounds. I don't know. Yeah, um, but we uh decided to get on the closest bus to us, which was uh Fort Wilderness, I believe. Yes, initially, so it was Fort Wilderness, Contemporary, and something else. We're like, go to the contemporary, we will hop on the monorail and head back to Epicot and be at the front entrance and kind of minimize our steps. But by the time we got our sad sack salves onto the bus, we realized we couldn't we could not be doing monorails and stuff. That wasn't the thing. I couldn't do, I was like, then I'm gonna have to go upstairs in the contemporary, ride the monorail, and then down the ramp. Yeah, I cannot, I cannot. So Haley said, let's get off at the first stop, which was Fort Wilderness, and we'll call a minivan to take us to the front of the park. And then five minutes later, she was like, you know what? Oh no, wait, we actually got to Fort Wilderness before we made this change. I was trying to get a minivan to take us to the front of the park. Um, but it was taking a kind of a long time to get one. And as we waited, I was like, oh wait, I'm broken and really hungry. So we decided to just switch and grab like a regular Uber and head straight to our brunch at Topolk. And Topolino's early. Um retrospect because we could have just hopped on the Riviera bus from the race parking lot and eliminated our little side quest. We weren't in the wilderness. We weren't we weren't thinking super clearly, and like the the poor the man at Bell Services who was very nice, he was just trying to chat us up and be friendly, and we were like, We're from Massachusetts. And like there was a couple of Uber here, I cannot walk any further. I was like, Can I get an Uber and where are their snacks? Is there any snacks in this facility? And he was like, No. I'm so sorry, there's no snacks. I was like, I don't hold you personally responsible, but there was a woman and her husband chucking in at the same time, they were like spelling their last name for him, and I was like, Oh, I know that last name. Yeah, and then it turned out they were from Massachusetts, and I was like, Is your name Tracy? She looked a little startled. She was like, No. Oh, I'm sorry, Tracy. She was also her name was Suzanne. She was. Oh. Because your race bib says a name on it. I didn't even register that she had a race bib on it. She had a bib, and her name was Suzanne. Hi, Suzanne. If her lift sorry, Suzanne. Sorry. Sorry, Suzanne from the Cape. I won't say your last name. It starts with a P. But there's a woman in my town who's very active in the mom's page with the same last name. And I thought, what a coincidence it would be if this is Tracy. So uh yeah, so then we got in um a lift with a kind of judgy driver. He definitely was like a little nervous about our well-being. He was a little worried about us, which is fair. That's fair. And we very you guys are really, really hobbling. Yeah. Shut it. So I have a medal. So um, and then yeah, we got to top we got to Riviera and it it was a journey of several several days to get inside. I do love it. Um, we see people and they say congratulations, but with like a mix of concern. Right. Congratulations. Like you obviously finished, but you are not. Well, it's great. I don't think it's obvious that we finished, because you can get a medal either way. It's just that you didn't want to take one if we didn't finish, but you could if you wanted to. And I think everyone deserves it if they put the effort in, having done this, I think. But especially since you could get swept. Like you could, like, I told Danielle part way through the race, I was like, I can definitely I'm definitely at the point where I can finish, like, I'm sure of that. I'm just not 100% sure I can do it without getting swept. Right. Um, which is you know, that's that's rough. Yeah. Um yeah. But we didn't mention it yet. And we are paying the price. Um, but we went to brunch and uh honestly, we were falling asleep at the table. Like characters were coming around. We were like, the mini, we can't. We're so sorry. I want to hug you. I can't see it up. I can't do it. Um and brunch was good. I it wasn't as good as the last time I was there, I think, but I also I was not in an emotional place to enjoy it as much. I was rather I should have got the steak, that's the thing. I kind of wanted the steak, and in my head I was like, you can't eat a steak right now, you're like half dead, but I actually think I could have eaten the steak. Yeah, yeah. Um, and I got a legacy mimosa, but I drank like three cups of water. Yeah. Um, so I had a bellini and I had um just like eggs and bacon. And then I asked, I really wanted something sweet too, so I asked if we could just do like a side of um the Mickey. They're not like full waffles, they're like dippers. They're like, Yeah, they're really cute. They're like mini, mini waffles. Yeah. And she was like, Yeah, I can um I what did she say? She said we're like, I can't allow to do like a pair for the table. Yeah, like a Mickey and a mini dipper. Which is perfect. So we each had one. That was all we needed. That was great. But we wanted, we were like, let's make this a fast one. Yeah. We like barely said a word at breakfast. So it was very, very funny. Um and then we got another lift back here. Yes. Um, and then we hobbled back to our room. Um, we both showered, which was nice, and then we had locked off like over two hours to nap. Danielle napped a little, I napped a little, but I'm a napper. Like, if I give myself two hours, I usually take a like two-hour nap, but I didn't nap that long. I napped longer, but I got up to pee like 17 times. I feel like I I never want to see an electrolyte again. I know, is my a feeling. Um but yeah, we just woke up. We're assessing our the damage uh, but we think we are cautiously optimistic for doing some of the plans that we had for tonight. We wanted to still get on guardians. Guardians. I think what we're gonna do is minivan over to Epcot to do Guardians, and uh I'm assuming they'll honor our expired uh lightning lanes civil pass from earlier. They usually do. Um they have to feel like that. We have a medal. We'll just say we were in we were sad. We were hurt, we were recovering. Um, and then ideally, if we're feeling up to it, we'll bop over to Magic Kingdom to do a few things and also dinner. I'm so hungry. We should we should eat something before six o'clock if you have a couple of things. Okay, that's many hours away. Okay, is it? Yeah, that's the that's and that is what's going on here. We're just gonna kind of see how we feel and take it by minute by minute. So, uh yeah, you'll get a fun update later with surprises about what we managed to do. Alright, what time is it, Haley? Uh nine-ish? It's 9.07. Good job. And where are we? We're in Fantasyland, hobbling our way to the exit. We are we are in poor shape, my friends. Poor shape. We at last check, I think we were were we entering Epcot or leaving Epcot? I don't remember. You have so many questions. We did, we didn't 3 30. We rode Guardians. I think at 3 30 we were just leaving the hotel. Yeah. So we got we got to Epcot. We uh went to Florida Fresh. Haley got the Punk Fritters, I got the strawberry shortcake, which was very good. We both got the watermelon cucumber slushie. Yes, which is refreshing. Uh it was a little cucumber forward. I wouldn't recommend it. It was a little gin backward for me personally, but it was a little refresher. Yeah, just yeah. And then we did Guardians again. We did ask to be in the 10th row. The cast member helping at the front was definitely red in the struggle bus, so we round up on the first row, but that's fun. We had a great time. We got Disco Inferno, which I think is the second best. Yes. Yeah, that was good, and then we very slowly and painfully made our way out of that park. Yes, grabbed a minivan, came over here. We were running a little late, but we're moving really slow, is the problem. We could have made up for it, but we're really not in our best form right now. So we were like a half hour late per reservation. And they were like, we're sorry, it will be another 40 minutes. 40 minutes, which we were like, you know what? It's inside, there's seating, air conditioning. Yep, we're not in a rush. That's good. It was closer to an hour. It was more, it was actually more than an hour. Yeah, it was like an hour and 10. Yeah. So it was a little rough, which was a little rough. And then we had some like hilarious mix-ups where we thought a cast member was like ready to seat us, but they were looking for someone else, and then just kind of wandered off. And then we did get called, and we like were like, Oh, it's us, hi. But she didn't hear us, and she didn't hear us, but she was like leaving and like asking other people. We're like, no, ladies are starving. Come back, we are so we're so hungry. Um, but we did eventually get seated. We were right by the snow window, which is very pretty, which is really nice. Yeah, um, and we had a good meal. We'll probably do like a full dining situation at some point, but we all we wanted was steak, and we got steak. Yep. And now we are exiting much later than anticipated. We have disregarded all lightning lanes. We are done. We're done. And tapping out. We're trying to get out during the parade. We have a minivan coming at about 20. We are moving again real slow, so that feels like an appropriate amount of time. And we are hoping to get back to the hotel, probably grab a Mai Thai at the pool bar, and then call it a night. Yes. We're gonna sleep in a bit tomorrow before homecoming. Hoping to check out before then, so we'll check in with you then.