Jennifer and Melinda Marie are Disneyland and Coast to Coast Half Marathon Finishers!

Jennifer and I did it!  We ran our little hearts out and finished the SOLD OUT Disneyland Half Marathon.  And with our finisher medals we also scored the coveted COAST TO COAST medal for finishing the Disneyworld Princess Half Marathon and the Disneyland Half Marathon!  YAY!!!!



We woke up at the crack of dawn, grabbed our breakfast of champions (including a snickers bar and Coca Cola classic for me) and headed to meet 13,998 of our closest friends (and their fans) to run 13.1 miles throughout the happiest place on earth.

The traditional pic of Port a Potty row....

 Minnie Mouse Twins...

... right down to our Sauconys.  Both of us endured a broken foot after running in Nike's.  Sorry Nike ~ we love your apparel, but your shoes don't cut it for our pronating runner girls.

We kind of sorta snuck into a Corral ahead of ours.  We didn't want to chance being swept from the course if we lagged behind... so we were in a pace group that was just a wee bit faster than us.  No big deal. 

We laughed at our new friends diva race shirt ~ so fashionable!

I had an extra spring in my step and was pumped full of adrenaline, so I wished Jennifer a good race, promised to meet her at the finish line and got lost in the sea of runners.  Just me and my ipod and my pack of snacks. (Because goo makes me sick and I just have to have my carbs!)

I had to get a shot of The Toy Story Folks for Timothy...

Point taken 

And by mile 9 I was starting to not feel so hot.  My blood sugar was dropping despite my eating sugar.  

But I pushed through :)

I finished and headed straight to the first aid stand.  I was shaky, vomited (oh boy!) and my blood sugar was in the LOW 30's.  The volunteer doc stayed with me while I drank sugar water and repeatedly tested my blood sugar until it was back in normal range.  It was scary and a bit unexplainable.  I was just happy to be finished with the race, in my flip flops and feeling not so yucky.

The Finishers!  Thank you, Jennifer for being my race buddy.

We headed to my sister Janice's to swim and eat.  Oh, and my family (and Jennifer) are met Timothy for the first time tonight.  They loved him.  Of course the did!