The Glass Slipper

Run Disney introduced the Glass Slipper Challenge for this year.  It will include the annual Princess Half Marathon as well as the new to 2014 Enchanted 10k.  Yep, you read that right....16.7 miles in two days through the most magical place on the planet.  I am pretty sure I am crazy.  Thankfully, excitement overtook crazy long enough to hit the "yes charge my credit card" button and sign up because the Glass Slipper Challenge sold out in less than 7 hours.  Insane!  

People who don't "get it" have never experienced it before.  I am a Disney brat.  Born and bred...my parents are Disney people too.  My siblings all share the same love for anything Disney and we are passing that love to our children.  (Although Connor tried to tell me a few weeks ago that Disney Junior was for babies and it just about broke my heart.)  You only have to speak the word and I am down for anything that involves going to Disney World, even if it does mean running at zero-dark thirty with 40,000 of your closest Disney Princess loving compadres.  Some people don't understand the coolness of Run Disney.

First of all, Run Disney has events almost all year long from the Wine and Dine Marathon weekend during Epcot's Food and Wine Festival.  (I haven't done this one yet but the Food and Wine is AMAZING and when you run you get the have a little sampling so trust that this race may be on my future to do list).  The Tinkerbell Half Marathon.  The Expedition Everest Challenge.  The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror 10K and the queen bee of them all...Endurance Marathon Weekend.  Jo and I participated in this one a few years back.  We ONLY ran the half but let me tell you the level of running insanity for this weekend.  There is a 5K, a half and a full marathon.  If you run the full and half, you have participated in the Goofy Challenge and you get a rocking medal but this year, Run Disney is also offering the Dopey Challenge...yep, running all 3!!  How crazy is that?!  But that is the love and obsession of these events.  They are awesome.  I mean, you run right through the middle of Cinderella's Castle!  

So now it is prep time.  I have been going to the gym three times a week and started prepping sloooowly.  One of the biggest mistakes I made last time was that my excitement (again) overtook sanity and I started full throttle.  By the time we actually got to the month of the race, I was pretty much done.  I have a 5k in August so I am working on that with the plan to just run the entire thing.  For you runners, I know this sounds hysterical.  I just signed up for a half marathon with a goal to run an entire 5K.  Oh ye of little faith.  I will get there, I promise.