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Going The Distance Three Weekends In A Row: (Bonnet Springs/Springtime Surprise/Seven Seas Food Fest part 2)

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  Now it's time to Go The distance!!! We left the room at 2:05 and got to the bus at 2:21. At 2:29 we loaded and 2:33 it pulled out. It was a DCL bus so we were spoiled with Mickey cartoons. My Ootd was my pink skort and bondi band as well as a custom blue reel legends reel tech shirt with custom lettering. Weather was 69 feels like 68.  With 93% humidity We arrived at 2:43 and used a real restroom before heading to security. It opened at 2:55 and we were than held by the leave a legacy wall till 3. Characters out were Hercules (7 mins) Groot (3 mins) Doctor Strange (8 mins) Mr. Incredible (9 mins) plus the Baymax Baloon   I did a quick port o let and water trip before getting to the coral at 3:57 And I was off with the first mile bringing up Mirabel and Megara meets We hit the first marker in 17 mins We waited about 5 mins for Merida and 9 for Esmeralda and Clopin (well Jess waited in the line while I joined her three people from the front after using an on course port-o...

Going The Distance Three Weekends In A Row: (Bonnet Springs/Springtime Surprise/Seven Seas Food Fest part 1)

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  So, if you read through my last two race recaps you’d have seen I ran 17.3 miles over two back to back weekends with my Gasparilla Challenge and Promise Run…. well I’m now embarking on a slightly slimmer 15.5 miles spread out over three weekends HOWEVER it’s starting to warm up and one of the weekends is going to be involving record heat…!!! Instead of posting three separate recaps I’m just going to combine the three weekends, four races, and the chaos of a Rundisney expo in a single… two part recap… First Up BONNET SPRINGS 5K Bib pick up for this was just a go to the venue tell them your number get your shirt and bib get out…. For the third year in as many events I had a mild headache the night before… gotta love consistency.  With my OOTD I followed in last years Princess DisneyBound trend by wearing my gold costume skort, a blue Gaim top that had been sitting in my closet and a red bondi I arrived at 6am and parked right up front. I didn’t track how long the walk out was ...