Tower of Terror 10 Miler

Over the weekend, I participated in my first (and probably last, LOL) race. The event took place at Disney's Hollywood Studios. The course wound from the Studios down Osceola Parkway to Animal Kingdom, back to the Wide World of Sports, and through the park to the finish line near Tower of Terror.

I was bib number 9529, which meant that I was one of the last people to start the race. I finished in 4635th place (LOL) (there were over 10,000 runners who finished the race) and my time was 2h13m.

The photographers took some pictures of me and there is also a video of me running through the stadium and crossing the finish line. Not sure how long these will be online, but if you are interested you can try this link: http://www.brightroom.com/go.asp?146829143

What I didn't like was that the race started at 10:00 pm, but we had to take the bus to our corral by 8:00. That was a LOT of sitting around getting nervous! Plus, there were a lot of runners and I never felt like I had the space to really settle into any sort of rhythm. I was constantly changing my speed and dodging people, so that made the course even tougher. I also didn't do enough hill work in my training--I didn't realize we'd be running up and down highway on/off ramps! That was tough!!

Overall, I was pleased with my effort and felt that I did well. I was a little disappointed that my knee started hurting around mile 8, because that prevented me from running the last whole mile (which I'd planned to do). I am still a little sore, too!

Here I am waiting for the race to start!