The race was first posted in July (10 months earlier) and sold out in 48 hours. Crazy, right? The night before the race, we picked up our bibs at The Disneyland Hotel, and we were ready to go!
That night we stay at Jorg's house (a long time family friend) since he only lives 3 minutes away from Disneyland. When you have to show up to a race at 3:30 AM, living 25 minutes away still isn't close enough. So at 3 AM we woke (to pouring rain, may I add) and by 3:30 we were driving down the road to Disneyland. I was so happy to see that the Starbucks was specially open at 4 am, so we warmed up with a warm steamer and breakfast sandwiches.
While we waited at the entrance of the castle, we got to watch a 4:30 am firework show, how rare is that?? It was silent of course, but super cool. Right at 5 am, the race began! The funnest race ever. There were about 8,000 people in the race and everyone was just having FUN! Running through the empty park was special enough, but getting to run through a bunch of areas that are otherwise closed to the public was the best. Ending at Paradise Pier was surreal, and hundreds cheered the finishers in!
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