Race Recap - Disney Princess Half Marathon 2013 (Part 2 - Race Weekend)

This is Part 2 of Sara's DPHM recap. Check out Parts 1 and 3!

Before we knew it, it was time for race weekend, and our whirlwind trip to Orlando. Neither of us had much vacation time to take from work, so we flew down Saturday morning, before the Sunday race. By the time we got into Orlando, we had a couple hours to hit up the race expo before it closed. Rachel’s parents had been down for a couple days already, and had scoped out the logistics of getting to and from the expo. We parked at Downtown Disney and bused over to Coronado Springs, where the expo was being held.

We picked up our packets (by so late in the weekend, most of the racers had already been through, so the lines were super short), and spent an hour or so winding through the booths checking out the freebies and merch. At this point, I realized I had left my knee brace at home, so invested in a new one, both of us picked up a pair of sunglasses and “13.1” magnets for our cars. We stocked up on free samples from Dannon and Chiquita, found our names on the list of runners, and made sure to find the most important part of the expo – the Fairy Godmother’s assistants, who were applying glittering pixie dust to everyone’s hair.

Then it was back to the hotel for a light dinner and short jog to try and acclimate to the 50º difference in temperature. We took an easy run around the hotel’s lake, bemoaned the drastic change in humidity, and called it a night. Wasn’t even 8pm, but we had an early morning to start off our big day!