{"id":20643,"date":"2018-01-03T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=20643"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:06:14","slug":"practically-perfect-in-every-dopey-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=20643","title":{"rendered":"Practically Dopey in Every Perfect Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

This will be my last runDisney event for awhile.<\/p>\n

They’ve already cancelled all future West Coast events because of a dispute with city residents in Anaheim, although they claim it’s because of construction on Star Wars Land … and Beyond… that would negatively impact on the world class runner experience they want to deliver.<\/p>\n

This is my fifth year running the Dopey Challenge through Walt Disney World on the right coast. It’s actually the sixth year as I partook in the unofficial Dopey challenge which a group of crazed runners used to do that inspired Disney (read: the accountanteers realized they could charge more).<\/p>\n

But since this is the fifth anniversary and I’ve toed the line each and every year, I’m “perfectly Dopey.” And that seems like a good time to close out.<\/p>\n

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Today was the mandatory bib pickup for the next four days of races. A cold snap has broken Florida’s panhandle… as it has done for most of the country if I’m being honest. Freezing temperatures are likely the next few mornings… especially given the 5:30 AM starts for all the events, regardless of distances.<\/p>\n

So the 40-ish temperatures with a bit of rain for the expo made for a chilly warning… and has no doubt contributed to the yellow flag conditional alert for the races.<\/p>\n

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It’s gonna be a cold one, that’s for sure. Maybe it’s all for the best that I’m running in a few makeshift costumes for the shorter events.<\/p>\n

In any case, I’m bib’ed and packet’d and prepping for tomorrow’s 2:30 AM wakeup.\u00a0 That’s probably ridiculously early but the traffic around here has gotten exponentially worse, race weekend or not, and I’m paranoid about missing my corral.<\/p>\n

To the starting line… and beyond!<\/p>\n

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This will be my last runDisney event for awhile. They’ve already cancelled all future West Coast events because of a dispute with city residents in Anaheim, although they claim it’s because of construction on Star Wars Land … and Beyond… that would negatively impact on the world class runner experience they want to deliver. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}