{"id":93,"date":"2016-01-07T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:52:29","slug":"dopey-challenge-day-1-plutos-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Dopey Challenge Day 1 – Pluto’s 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"

A light drizzle and intermittent wind made for a damp and slightly chilly morning, at least for this Floridian blooded transplant.\u00a0 Nothing like last year’s 5K that was about as cold as I’ve been including time spent in New England or colder climates.\u00a0 Something about the wind chill last year froze me to my core and I just never could get warm.\u00a0 Today though once we started running I found myself warming up — might have been the running jacket I opted not to shed.\u00a0 Nonetheless, a nice morning 5K successfully completed, day 1 of the four day Dopey Challenge at the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend.<\/p>\n

I’m constantly amazed at runners who blow past photo ops along the course.\u00a0 I can understand if the lines are overly long, the thought of queuing constantly for a quick pic weighing on you.\u00a0 But at some stage you really need to grab at least one photo with a character, a background, a moment.\u00a0 Otherwise, why are you running this event?\u00a0 runDisney races are expensive.\u00a0 There are FAR cheaper entry fees and events if you’re looking for a clock time record.\u00a0 That said, I do want to run between the photo stops so I understand some of the voiced runner frustrations regarding walkers five abreast blocking paths or in the wrong corrals for start times.\u00a0 As annoying as the corral system is with its delayed wave starts prompting some later corrals starting 45 minute or more after the first wave, the theory is that this should ensure the course is open and runners of comparative paces are moving at a relative flow.\u00a0 Like anything, when there’s a mismatch between times it creates logjams and confusion.\u00a0 In a race, it means a whole lot of ducking and weaving around slower runners for faster people which is frustrating for the faster runners and for the slower ones too — it just makes for an unpleasant experience.\u00a0 It’s hard to be passed and it’s hard to pass.\u00a0 It’s just… awkward.\u00a0 And that ducking and weaving takes a toll physically and mentally.\u00a0 I’ve heard it referred to “pinballing” as you bounce back and forth trying to get around folks.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I always think of it as “Millennium Falconing” as a tribute to the backwards and forwards flying shot of Han and Chewie’s Corellian Freighter in the Star Wars saga.<\/p>\n

But getting back to the photos — we’ve paid so very much to run these races and part of the charm and fee is to have these experiences along the race course.\u00a0 So running past them seems like a waste of money.\u00a0 But then I’ve always been frugal… which is a polite way of saying I’m incredibly cheap.\u00a0 I’m going to try and maximize my fun for the dollars I’ve spent.\u00a0 To me that’s just good sense but to others it’s crazed.\u00a0 Sure, sure.\u00a0 When I went to my ten year high school reunion eons ago and figured that the $50 ticket price required me to have at a minimum 10 mixed drinks to cover my costs, that might have been a recipe for disaster.\u00a0 But 10 Gin and Tonics later, did I care?\u00a0 Who remembers?\u00a0 (Actually, I do… I was fine after a good night’s sleep).<\/p>\n

These posts are ever more rambling and incoherent.\u00a0 Lots of digressions and tangents.\u00a0 Almost as if the prose requires ducking and weaving to understand… say, maybe this all ties together after all!\u00a0 Or is that just the refuge of a desperately underslept and chaotic guy?<\/p>\n

Meantime, here’s some shots from today:<\/p>\n

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A light drizzle and intermittent wind made for a damp and slightly chilly morning, at least for this Floridian blooded transplant.\u00a0 Nothing like last year’s 5K that was about as cold as I’ve been including time spent in New England or colder climates.\u00a0 Something about the wind chill last year froze me to my core […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,25,24,27,26,22],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5k","tag-challenge","tag-dopey","tag-falcon","tag-millenium","tag-wdw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}