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<\/a><\/p>\nAgain, something has Disney spooked as security and metal detectors are in full force this weekend; perhaps this is the new normal.\u00a0 It’s a sad thing but I suppose as soft targets go, the happiest place on earth would rank pretty high up there.\u00a0 I guess I’m glad they’re doing something but it all feels a little more “for show” than actually doing anything other than slowing us all down.\u00a0 Maybe that’s the cynic in me…<\/p>\n
While waiting around the corrals to open, I took advantage of the photo opps Disney had set up.\u00a0 More than anything, I was fascinated with the “instructions” on how to pose with the backgrounds…<\/p>\n But I was really glad to get my picture taken:<\/p>\n The imperial march to the corrals proved uneventful… though I did grab my traditional “Downtown Disney” shot for my Mom.\u00a0 I’ll never understand why Florida decided to rebrand their Downtown Disney as Disney Springs.\u00a0 I get they wanted to focus on the water aspects of that area but why not call it Disney Springs AT Downtown Disney… Downtown Disney is akin to Main Street, USA, or Tomorrowland in the parks — it’s just another land and some things should just be called like they are.\u00a0 But the Disney Theme Parks are ever, never changing… like the future, always in motion is the Disney experience.<\/p>\n I tried grabbing a selfie at the 10K start line… a runDisney race photographer had me do it again to try and snap a photo of me taking a selfie.\u00a0 All I could think about was Holly Hunter in “Broadcast News” lecturing her cameraman not to stage the shot or news; that the rebel should feel free to put his shoe on or not, whatever he wants to do.\u00a0 Still, I kinda hope somewhere on social media there’s a photo of me fake-selfie-ing with my Star Wars VCR tape iphone case showing.<\/p>\n Something else I was thinking about as Carissa and Kwame read off the sponsors of the event — the AT&T logo kinda looks like the Death Star.<\/p>\n As chilly a dark morning as it was (my car’s outside temperature said it was 48 degrees), I was kinda glad I was wearing Poe Dameron\/FN-2187\/Finn’s jacket for the race.\u00a0 Standing outside, amongst the reported 13,000 runners in today’s event, I was still a little shivery.\u00a0 Thankfully it only took a few seconds to get the race coordinates from the navi-computer and we were good to–<\/p>\n As a run, the 10K proved to be sparsely charactered — whether I just missed some of the photo spots or I just expected more of the gang out and about, I don’t know.\u00a0 It’s a lot to pack into 6.2 miles so I get that maybe they can’t have TOO many character spots… but it still felt a little underwhelming.<\/p>\n Here though are the shots from along the way…<\/p>\n The medal for the 10K is a spinning BB-8.\u00a0 I grabbed the usual, usual post-race pics (and the not so usual shot of the signed “Post-Race Water” — who knows what would happen if you had the post-race water pre-race!) and even re-did the backdrop photos to highlight the bling:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rolling back to my car in its $18 parking space, I passed by the concession stand.\u00a0 You know what they say — if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.\u00a0 I have no idea what they were charging but it was too rich for my blood… and so I opted to break all kinds of rules and have the “pre-water” as a “post-race” beverage.\u00a0 I wasn’t escorted off property by Stormtroopers; the world didn’t explode.\u00a0 So I guess it’s ok.<\/p>\n How nice that runDisney has set up a race merchandise tent so we can obtain a tangible memory of the run on our way out.\u00a0 Clever, Accountaneers!<\/p>\n I was back home by 7:44 AM.\u00a0 I will say, though the West Coast branch of runDisney charges for parking, their recovery box is way better than the Florida offerings:<\/p>\n As I prep for tomorrow’s half marathon, just a housekeeping notation — my Garmin says I ran the 10K in a 47:25:03.\u00a0 As the single sun rises higher in the sky, I gaze at it from my homestead, contemplating the adventures that await on the morrow.\u00a0 And also that I need to get over to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters…. no, seriously.\u00a0 I need a plug for the United Arab Emirates as I leave for Dubai on Tuesday.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Post Script Note 1: Looks like the UAE uses the same plug as the UK and I’ve got plenty of those from my days working in Kent.\u00a0 Or at least I think they use the same plug.\u00a0 I used the website www.whatplug.net.\u00a0 With a URL like that, how could they NOT be experts?<\/p>\n Post Script Note 2: I have to apologize for this post.\u00a0 It has come out all wrong… like a prequel to the half marathon adventure, it’s wooden and doesn’t quite have the swagger and zing I was hoping for.\u00a0 Hopefully tomorrow will be better.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\u00a0<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n