I got Mom all checked in at Charles de Gaulle and grabbed a train into central Paris. I’m at an AirBNB for the next two nights before I head on to Brussels. The place I picked was supposedly close to the Eiffel Tower — when in France, if the price is right, why NOT be […]
Disneyland Paris Half Marathon Short, short review: Good. Almost great. Some logistical snafus that remain no matter what distance. The Corral loading was a multistage sprint. We’d hit a holding pen checkpoint, they’d check bibs (I was shoved back for a moment because my tash was blocking the Corral assignment in my bib) and they’d […]
I’ve spent far too long this afternoon trying to upload photos from YESTERDAY’S run. I’ve given up as efforts to get those photos through the insanely small wifi pipeline here at Residence du Parc have proven as fruitless as trying to fit the squarest of pegs into the roundest of holes. So now I am […]
The Disneyland Paris 5K was their inaugural night run. It was scheduled for 8 pm; I was stuck in the last corral, Corral C, so I decided I had better get there early in the hopes of at least being in the front of the back. This was my POV at 6:39 pm. And this […]
Swell. Stuffy nose is full blown… actually just constantly blowing. Not to get too graphic but how much gunk can possibly BE in my schnoz? I’ve gone through a pack of travel tissues and then some and yet I’m still stuffy? Sending Mom home, albeit I raided her travel med kit to augment mine. I’ve […]
We made it an early day at Disneyland Paris for our last play day in the parks. Mom is flying back tomorrow and I’m off to the next leg of the running tour. Perhaps at my Airbnb in Paris I’ll have better wifi and can upload some photos. Yet even if that’s the case, unfortunately I […]
Here’s a big ol’ flashing red light warning sign. I’m kinda sick of people, especially Europeans who seemingly exist within much smaller personal space bubbles and thus think nothing of jostling, shoving, walking five across with a nary a care to those around them, and just generally crashing into my apparently obscenely American large personal […]
I’ve got a quick write up of the 5K last night done but uploading photos is an impossible task. So in the meantime here’s a photo from this morning’s inaugural Disneyland Paris 10k at their second annual race weekend. Note bene: I am a ‘stache-less Frenchman as my mustache fell out of my pocket on […]
A brief moment of being “that guy”… No way am I a “C” corral runner in a 5K…
Assuming this gets uploaded, headed to the expo this morning in anticipation of the Disneyland Paris 5K tonight. I’m bringing a “go bag” with me to change into running gear. Biggest conundrum this morning? Finalizing the Frenchman look. I must choose… wisely. Which is the ‘stache of a Frenchman?