Saturday, January 9, 2010

First Half of the Goofy Challenge 2010 is over.

Now all that is left is a full marathon tomorrow!

The run was fantastic. It was truly one of the best organized marathons I have done. Granted I only done Chicago, and then the Marathon part of the Ironman. It was well organized and well controlled. Truly an event.

Con's; some of the same old runner issues. A group of people walking side by side. Not letting the runners through. Walkers that don't turn to the right. One weird quirk, there were all these school bands there to keep the runners motivated. It was really great. The only thing that was odd, was there were all these big diesel busses sitting with there engines running. So all the runners are there almost single file getting nothing but exhaust fumes. Other than that there really wasn't anything else to note.

Pro's; Well a your running through Disney World! What else needs to be said. The others runners are all mellow. No one is running for time, or personal bests. So people were pretty supportive.

One thing I have noticed about endurance sports. The fellow runners are usually very supportive of the others. You get the occasional (usually male) that like to tell other people how to run. Ya know the guy that tells ya some stupid point about your running form, or some tip that should make you run faster, or some gear that will help you finish stronger. I usually ignore the know-it-all's. Other than that it was a really good run.

Looking forward to doing the full tomorrow

Oh my Spot and my Video recorder did not function at all. Don't know why. Will check it out.......now