3 days before race weekend.

The last 3 days before RunDisney MagicRun Weekend starts.

Monday 9/16

My vacation starts today.

It's doesn't feel like a vacation yet because of all the things I still need to do before we go to Disneyland Paris.

Tuesday 9/17

Did some yoga because my body needs to relax a bit.

It was nice and felt perfect.

Wednesday 9/18

Last things packing for the vacation.

Tonight we are going to Disneyland Paris.

From Thursday till Sunday we are at Disneyland Paris for the Run Weekend.

I will make some post about the trip.

But here you can see the little recap of the 3 days before race weekend and some photos from the weekend.

https://youtu.be/RViqyab7NTc

Sorry!!!

Hi everybody,


Sorry for not updating the blog.


Somehow I got a bit to busy and totally forgot to post 1 week before race weekend.


I will update the blog this week.
Also with the recaps of the races from the magicrun weekend.


Greetings Consueel and my right hand Inge.

MagicRun Training - 4 weeks before raceweekend.

This was a weird week, no that's not it, it feels weird.
I only did 2 runs because of work and the things I needed to do in the house.
I also made my RunDisney Outfits for the MagicRun.


First run was on Wednesday.



Wednesday 8/21


Today was a film day for my last RunDisney Virtual Short Series.
The Black Panther 5K.
Video is not online yet but if will be upcoming week.


Thursday 8/22


Today I didn't do anything with sports, but what I did was sport related.
I made my running outfits for the RunDisney MagicRun.
And I'm totally happy with my running gear for september.
Just love it.


Friday 8/23


This was the day for my last long run before race weekend.
The plan was to do a half but because of constructions on the road I had to change my running route.
It wasn't a half that I ran but it was 18.90K.
It was fun and mom was with me again, sweet mom on her bike.
It was hot but I did it.
I will do long runs but the runs will be around 10/13K.
The pace of this run was: 8.45 per 1K.


Saturday 8/24 and Sunday 8/25


Were my rest days after the long run and I did some little things for the park days at MagicRun Weekend.




You can find the recap of this training week on my YouTube Channel: ConsueelRuns.
You can see my running outfits!!!!

https://youtu.be/OnYstS9kNfU


Almost, almost, wow it is almost MagicRun Weekend.
For months you want raceweekend to be here, and now it's almost there, that you can go to the startline of the race.
Still 3 weeks to go.
Let's make it a good 3 weeks.

What kind of races did I do from 2018 till half 2019?

We are back after a month, we had a lot going on in our private life but now we are back!!!


Here are the  races that I did from 2018 till may 2019.
Under the races you will find a link to the video recap of that race, Januari and May don't have a recap.


In 2018 I did many Virtual Runs but my first real start and finish line was an RunDisney Race.


*September 22, 2018


I did my first RunDisney Race.
The 10K MagicRun.


I did a full trip and race recap on the blog.




https://youtu.be/bcuxR6XP158


 *December 21, 2018


FunRun at Papendal, The Papendal NightRun "Christmas Edition".
My second funrun race and the first one for my friend.

The night before the race I had my last nightshift so if it was a smart move to do a run the next day, I don't know but it was a funrun.

When new year came I said I will do a medal run every month, that is the goal I made for 2019.



https://youtu.be/MPjDKzc1k2A


*Januari 22, 2019


I did a virtual run in a while.
It was the 5K  "Suck It Up Run" a virtual run by Race The Distance.
Mickey my running buddy (one of my dogs) was with me.


*Februari 2, 2019


My friend and I did the "Apres Ski Run" in our hometown.
It was also an nightrun and it was really fun to do, all the music and lights on the runners.
I love nightruns.



https://youtu.be/OUf39C1Vcfw

*March 17, 2019


I did the 10K "KLM Urban Trail Amsterdam".
I wanted to do an Urban Trail in 2018 but I was to late to book it or I had to work.
But this year I could do the one in Amsterdam my birth place.
It was a really fun run but it was so weird I had to run through restaurants and cafes.


https://youtu.be/TIvblR2j6ys


*April 22, 2019

My first half marathon was on this day, but it went all so diffrent than I had planned.
The weather was so hot and humid that it wasn't going to be ok on my first half.
At 10.45KM I got out of the race, that was the right choice at that point.
I was really sad but it was not safe enough to do the whole 21.1K.


https://youtu.be/IgdUBRIGW7g                                                    







*May 29, 2019

My second Virtual Run of the year, this time for a Rainbow heart with tinkerbell on it.
This race was also from "Race The Distance".


*June, 2019

This month the RunDisney Virtual Short Series starts.
This is the first time I'm doing the RunDisney shorts.
It means your doing a 5K in June, July and August.
June is Captain Marvel 5K.

        






https://youtu.be/mmgijDLaIiA


*Juny, 2019

Now it's July and I just did the Iron Man 5K.
This is fun.
The medal didn't arrive yet but when they do I will post it on my blog.

               







https://youtu.be/mgPc59vj0gI


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September is the month of RunDisney's MagicRun Weekend.
I will do my first 36K challenge.


And the plan for the last 3 months of the year are not yet complete.
But there will be some races and a Virtual Run.

Booking My New RunDisney Vacation.

Booking a RunDisney race(s) can be a stressful thing.
Like the problem I had in 2017 for my first RunDisney race.
The 5K sold out in just 30 min and that was the race I wanted to do.


So I told myself if I can book my challenge pack before the bibs only sale starts, I will do that.
You can book it through a running vacation planner but I didn't wanted to do that, with a race weekend package you also get park tickets and I don't need that because I have a annual pass.


In November '18 you could book your challenge pack in combination with a Disney Hotel stay, if you did your booking through Disney itself.
Because I'm an annual passholder I get discounts on my hotel stay and on my challenge pack.


So it was November 15 and we could book our stay for race weekend.
It became a real thing now, I am going to book my 36K challenge and I will be a part of the Disney half marathon.


There are different kind of Disney Resort Hotels.
I really love Hotel Santa Fe but I wanted something special for this run weekend.
What kind of hotel do I want, the beautiful New Port Bay Hotel or the warm Sequoia Lodge Hotel.
For this runcation I chose Sequoia Lodge Hotel, my mom had never stayed there so that is special, the pool will be open after renovation plus in september the evenings are a bit colder and they have a big and beautiful fireplace.
It is going to be magical.

When I'm in Disney I often do a diner at New Port Bay "Cape Cod" it is nice and it has really good food, so this trip will have a diner at "Cape Cod".
I booked it for 4 nights with breakfast and on Sunday the last race day, half marathon day, I will drive home later that day.


New plans can start now, and how do I stay motivated till September 2019.


Some funruns maybe, or some virtual runs.


I knew I needed to train for a half marathon and maybe to do a half marathon race.


What am I going to do for the RunDisney race, race shirt, costume or disneybound style.


So much to think about, and so much to do.

MagicRun Weekend Day 3 Race Day

September 22, 2018

Race Day!


Waking up at 4.15 am for a race.

I was so nervous and tense.

There was an early breakfast especially for the runners of the MagicRun Weekend.

So that was our first thing to do before getting my running clothes on.

I think that every thing was good for a runner breakfast.

After breakfast we went back to the room the get ready.

To get my running gear on.

I was so nervous and tense.

What if I can't do a 10K.

I knew I could do the run/walk, so that was not a issue for me but oooh it was so scary.

Done, so now it's time to go to the bus.

At the lobby they had some extra stuff for the runners like waterbottles and bananas.

Really I think they did a great job to make it perfect for the runners.

The bus was a bit late but I didn't worry about it, like I know Disney it's going to be ok and I will be on time for the race.

And I was very much on time for the race, Mom and I walk slowly to Disney Village.

Mom was with me all the way till we had to say goodbye for me to go to corral C and Mom to go to cheer me on at the course.

We talked about where my Mom would cheer, so it was easy to find her while running.

So there I was alone on my way to go the corrals.
Never did any race, just follow the crowd, you are going to be fine, I told myself.
A part of the walk to the corrals I really don't remember because of being to busy in my head hoping that I was going the right way.

Stupid to be so busy in your head because you have to enjoy ever little step of an RunDisney Race and there are so many RunDisney Volunteers how can help you and show you how to walk to the corrals.

And there was my corral C in the middle, I think it was a perfect place to start, not to fast and not to slow.

I thought I would be the last one to cross the finishline but that was also not true, it's so funny that we thinking so much till over thinking things.

I walked in to my corral and most of it was empty so I could walk almost to start of corral C.

I saw so many people but not in my corral, there was music and entertainment on stage at the startline.

It made me happy and I became more calm, I'm here and I'm going to do this.

Yes finally I'm going to do the RunDisney MagicRun 10K where I was training for.

First part of the race went through DisneyStudio's.
Than the course goes in to Disneyland, Discoveryland, Fantasyland, through the Castle, Frontierland and Adventureland.

After that we went outside of the park, a part of the course was backstage to come back at Disney Studio's to finish the race.

7.24 am my race starts, here we go!!!

I love it, I will see my mom in a few seconds, I know she is nevous for me, it is also her first race and her first time to be a time alone in the park and finding her way to all her cheersquat places.

Before I go in to Disney Studio's I see her, it is so nice to see her, I love it that she is here with me.

Running to Disneyland Studio's and people cheering for you is magical.

I was just following the runners and we came at Toy Story Playland, I got a photo with Rex that was the first photo on my photopass.

I had my phone with me, so I took some photo's and made some video's, so my mom could see the course.

Off to Disneyland and run through MainStreet USA and see the Castle, Epic Run.

Mom was there in the beginning of MainStreet, I gave her a kiss and went on my way again.

On the right side of the Castle was a character stop, I wanted to do at least one character stop so this was it.

There was a long line but still wanted to do it, I didn't know if other waiting lines are long so this was my stop.

Honest John and Gideon!!!

I was standing with a lady I didn't know and she ask me if I wanted to take a photo of her with the characters and she will do it for me to.

That was so nice of her so I got 2 photo of  my character stop on my phone and on my photopass.

She had to walk her 10K because of an injury on her foot.

I thought than you have to walk very fast but I didn't say it.

(she could take the time, but I didn't know that than.)

The rest of the race I didn't stop for characters but I did make photo's of them.

There are also parts of the race I really don't remember I think I was in some kind of flow, one thing that I know is I was smiling the whole race.

At the backstage area, a men came to me because his wife wanted to know where my legging came from.

Never thought I would get a question about my outfit at my Disney Run, because I didn't had a real costume, I just find a great legging with Snowwhite and the Evil Queen on it.

So that was nice, it was a couple from the USA, they where really nice people.

We got the Disneyland Studio's again and there it hit me, ooo my I'm almost done.

The 10K was gone, my 10K's in training Always took so long and now I was almost at the finishline.

Crossing the finishline got me emotional got some tears, I did it and there was my Mom behind all the statues with the photo camera.

What a lucky girl I am that I can do a RunDisney Race, that I got a change to run at the most magical place on earth....

Race was done, walking to the exit I got a RunDisney box with some food goodies, bananas and Powerade.

There are big walls with the RunDisney logo and you could get you picture with it.

I didn't do that, I don't know why but I didn't.

Mom and I wanted to see the kids races but it was to early to see it, we did go to the start for the kids but went away so we didn't see the kids do there run.

So we went to the hotel to do some relaxing and refreshing.

But we wanted to go to the park and walk around, drinking coffee and eating some great goodies.

Lets go to the magic...

The first thing we did was eating our favorite thing at the Market House Deli: Croque-Monsieur with a cup of coffee, believe me it is so delicious.

Than we just walked around the park and enjoying our time at Disney.

I didn't got my medal with me to the park, somehow I didn't knew if it was wise to take it with me, now I regret it that I didn't... So no great castle photo's with my medal.

We did our lunch at the Toad Hall Restaurant: Fish and chips and a well deserved Beer!

We love that restaurant, it's cute and the fish is delicious.

After lunch we walked around again and got out of the park because I wanted to go to the sports bar and just relax and enjoying the day.

Later we had a pasta diner at New York Hotel.
That was not a good idea, it didn't gave anything extra to that day.
If I do a Rundisney Race Weekend again I'm not going to do the pasta diner again, I will go to New Port Bay Club and eat at Cape Cod or go to Inventions at the Disneyland Hotel.

So pasta diner was a bummer on our great and magical day, but ok that happens, I got my RunDisney Medal, a amazing travel partner my Mom and a amazing weekend.

Time to get some sleep, tomorrow we drive home to my Dad who is taking care of the dogs.

You can find a recap of the MagicRun 10K here:

https://youtu.be/bcuxR6XP158?list=PL-_SWaGEbIwn621T85dyfJEc-2dT2sNyR

MagicRun Weekend Day 2

September 21, 2018


I didn't run for almost 3,5 weeks because of work and a bit of the flu, but I have to run a 10K tomorrow.

So in the early morning on our second day in Disney I ran 2.8K just to get the feeling of running again.

It was rainy and a bit cold outside but it was nice to run again and now I already did a run in Disney.

We didn't had any big plans for today because of my MagicRun tomorrow.

So we decided to go to the outlet center "La Vallee Village".

We tough that we could spent a day there because in the Netherlands we can do that.

But we're not in the Netherlands and the outlet center wasn't all that great.

Glad that there was a big shopping mall at one of the exits from the outlet so we went there.

The only shop we really see was the Primark and we did shop well.

Around noon we we're back at the hotel.
We didn't plan a park day but we went anyway only for a couple of hours.
We ended up at the sport bar and because we wanted to be in the hotel early, we did a early diner at Annette's diner.

Before the trip all the runners got a mail with discounts, a Virtual GoodieBag, but RunDisney sent it out so late that some of the runners didn't see that mail. I printed some more of the discounts so if anybody was missing out that I could give them the printed discount.
At Annette's Diner I met some runners.
Like Arno from RunArnoRun and his girlfriend plus I met Michael Gabriel from Run The Small World Podcasts (When I met them I didn't know they were on the internet but now they are a big part of my running life)

After diner we had some time before the start of the 5K MagicRun.
I wanted to see them run with all the lights and costums.
So we did walk around at Disney Village and again ended up at the sport bar, that place is really a great spot to see all the runners on there way to the corrals.
And what a amazing people are the RunDisney Runners.
There outfits/costums are so amazing and great.
I had the time of my life sitting there and just watching the runners.
The race started and people we in outfits of Disney and Marvel characters the 5K MagicRun was the Marvel theme.
Most of the runners had some lights because it's a run in the evening.
I was jealous of all the 5K runners,  it was the run I wanted to do and hoped that I could book the 5K and 10K next year.
What a beautiful sight seeing all the runners in the dark.
What a amazing Disney weekend it already was, and I still had to do my own 10K tomorrow.

So back at the hotel for a early night.
Putting my simple outfit, a Snow white legging, black longsleeve, orange nike shirt, orange socks, bib, runningbelt and a small running backpack on the bed.


Time to get some sleep!

Training for the 10K MagicRun

Yep a 10K instead of 5K MagicRun.
I hope I can run that.

Lot of training to do.
Small, short even longer runs I needed to do now.

I needed something to not lose my focus on running.
Because it was still some months before my RunDisney race.
I didn't want to go to a real startline because really I'm not a runner and not
fast enough to do a real race.
So to keep me motivated I did some Virtual runs and that was great.
Got some cute medals and did some dog jogs also for a medal.
It was working, I was motivated and everything went well.

My first long run, on the May the 4th be with you was 9,9K and the time was 1 hour and 33 minutes.
I was again proud of myself.
After that first long run I did my training between 2K and 8K.
Somehow if you do a long run, your done running, why I don't know but it happens, that 9.9K was my long run at that time.

In July I did a full 10K Virtual run and I got a Disney Castle kind of medal for it.
It was 10.2K and the time was 1 hour and 24 minutes.


Whoop Whoop my work paid of.
This is still my PR for the 10K in a training run.

(Virtual Run Site Race The Distance )








I did some extra 10K's but never got that time again.
But I knew I could do my 10K MagicRun.

At that time I didn't know what to expect at the Disney race.
I wasn't really a member of any RunDisney groups on Facebook and if I was I didn't ask things or didn't really read stuff because I still was in that mindset of not being a runner and I was to slow.
So I was looking at the pictures of outfits.
I posted my runs on instagram and Facebook so I could see what I did.

A month before the race I had to work alot and got a bit of the flu.
So running wasn't all that good.
Worrying that was something I was good at, I might be the winner off that.
Oooo my what a mess, the stress, no running, lot of night shifts at work.
Never going to get to the finish line at Disney.
I had some Disney friends on instagram and Facebook that did some Disney races.
They told me your going to be fine, you doing great, your working hard, don't worry, it is a lot of fun and you will have fun, but I didn't believe them.