So I guess I am just destined to be in one of the last corrals. Which is probably where I belong anyway, lol. I just don't want to be swept.
I was in the last corral for Tink because I did not do a qualifying race. Just try and move yourself up as far to the front of the corral as you can and you will probably be fine.
It is a hard corral to be in though for a lot of reasons. I got myself fairly near the front of the corral since I was alone and I got there relatively early and I weaved my way through the people. Plus the way the corrals are set up at DL, there's a fairly high curb on one side of the road where the fencing is set up on, and people were mainly standing in the street, so I got on the curb and walked up the edge a ways. Then when our corral started moving forward as the ones ahead of us went off, I just got back down in the street and kept weaving around people as we walked.
It is a hard corral because it takes so long to start (it was 50 min past race start before we went off) and I had to pee long before we even started. But I didn't want to lose the position I'd worked hard to move up to by leaving the corral, because I was also worried about being swept. So, I ended up wasting about 10 minutes in line at the first set of portapotties we came to at mile 2, even though I knew that the bathrooms in the park would be open and the first set of portapotties was right as we were coming in to California Adventure. I don't know why I didn't just wait a little longer and make a break for a bathroom in the park. There are also a lot of walkers to dodge back there, although I am pretty sure there were plenty that I also ran into from further up corrals as well.
We are under 5 months now people!!! Is anyone starting their training or just adding on to what they are already running? After the DM in January I took a break. I'm back up to 6 miles now and will steadily increase. It will be my DBF first RD event so I think I want to stay back with her and gets lots of pictures together.
I haven't started specific training yet. I'm going to follow the Galloway "experienced to finish in the upright position" plan, which seems to start July 7 this year (they still have last year's plan up that started the 8th). After Tink on 5/10, I have just been maintaining what training I had with the ~30-40 min weekday runs, and a longer run on most of the weekends. I did 3 miles the weekend after (5/16), a 5K race on 5/24, 6.6 miles last weekend, 4.3 miles this past weekend, and this coming Saturday I have my 10K race for (hopefully!) a better proof of time than Tink. I got 3:15:41 there (oh how I dearly regret that portapotty stop... without that I would have made the < 3:15 corral). So, that gives me a little over 3 weeks after that to just keep maintaining before I start the official schedule.
I'm hoping to use those weeks to get back into the habit of going to BodyPump (used to go 2x a week but have been off the wagon since the winter) and adding a spin class on one of my cross training days, since I think that those will help out my running.
He loved the trail run. There may be hope for him to run a 10K at Disney with me. 
Never though I would say that. haha
If they aren't up by tomorrow, I'm going to email them and see why.
I'm in FL summer mode, which entails doing whatever it takes not to die from heat stroke lol! I'm in base mode, running 3-4 times a week with 7-9 mile long runs every other week. I'll start building more mileage in Aug.
They didn't get party tickets because they weren't going to be going to it afterwards, but maybe I should suggest they get them and they can all hang out in Epcot beforehand. I guess I didn't realize that the party people could go in before/during the race.
