First day of the MagicRun Weekend.

It's 3.15 and our trip to Disneyland Paris is starting.


Around 7 we are making a stop in France to do some breakfast.
Still 2 hours to go and we are in Disneyland Paris.


We checked in at the hotel Sequoia Lodge, a real beautiful hotel.
It was my moms first time staying in this hotel.
Did see some of my RunDisney friends in the lobby of the hotel.
Love seeing my friends.


So we are set to go to the park and later that day to go to the expo.

At the park we walked around and did see Jungle Jive again.

Great show in front of the castle.

It was one of the last days you could see that show.

At 3pm the expo was open so we had to go there for my bib and race shirts.

I also pre ordered pins and the photopass so I also needed to get those.

I went pretty easy this year and that was great.

The expo was still very small but they had more merch to buy, the only part that was not so great was that all the tech running shirt were so small cut that I finally bought a bigger size.

The big wall with all our names was there again, just love that.

I made some recaps from the first day with the walk to the park, Jungle Jive and the expo.

Here are 2 links to the videos.

https://youtu.be/T31N5rVl9b0

https://youtu.be/sHUm7IkoNZw

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 - 2 weeks before raceweekend

This week is a easy week because I didn't feel that great last Saturday.


Monday and Tuesday


Those days became extra rest days to get better, I didn't got the flu but more like a cold, I did go to work but that was the only thing I did.


Wednesday 9/4


I had some problems with my knees and feet, I don't know why because I didn't do any sport.
I also still had the cold so still no workout.


Thursday and Friday


Still not feeling 100% so still no workout for me, what kind of week is this going to be.
There is no way that I can do a training update for this week.
I got Lucky because the official MagicRun Guide came out so I could do something about that for the training update.
You can find the official guide here:
http://run.disneylandparis.com/sites/default/files/Disneyland_Paris_Run_Weekend_official_guide_2019.pdf


Saturday 9/7


Feeling ok again so I could do a workout on Sunday.
RunArnoRun already did a video about the official MagicRun Guide so I don't need to do that.


You can find the video here:

https://youtu.be/g3f_kyOpyFE


https://youtu.be/8KyOW7zrw3E


Sunday 9/8


Time to do a workout, still some breathing problems but I can do a workout.
Nothing special but it was nice to do something after a week of rest.


Here is the link to my week update with one workout:

https://youtu.be/hEZLPOeylOU

MagicRun Weekend Day 1

September 20, 2018


It's the day to drive to Disneyland Paris.
Our little Disney Vacation is starting right now.
Mom is going with me to support me at my run.

The alarm clock is going off way to early but we need to drive for a bit longer than 5 hours.
We want to be there in the morning to walk around and go to the expo.
Did see some YouTube video's about the expo in the states and that is really crowed and huge but I also saw that the expo at Disneyland Paris was diffrent than in the states it is smaller.
So I don't know what to expect.

Our hotel was a partner hotel, Hotel B&B Disneyland Paris.
We had never stayed in this hotel, so that was exciting.
When we arrived at the hotel it was super nice and big.
What a gorgeous hotel.

The start of our tip was perfect.
We had a beautiful hotel, the sun was shining, so here we go.
What are we going to do or what was the plan, park, expo, park, eating and to the park again.

First part of the plan was perfect.
Walt Disney Studio was our first stop.

Like in 2017 they had the food festival again "Le Rendez-Vous Gourmand" this year it where more country's than in 2017.
In 2017 it was only france food and that was also really good.
I knew that is was there again, so I told my mom that I wanted our trip to start with some wine and food at Disneyland Studio's.
It's just the perfect setting.
We got our wine and we had some Belgium Fries it was really good.

Our plan didn't go like we wanted it to, it was because of the expo.
I never expected the expo to be that busy.
It took a long time before we got everything we needed for my run on Saturday.
Long lines at every desk.
I got my Bib, race shirt, pre ordered pins and photo pass and for mom we got all her wrist bands to go to main street and the finishline to see me.

There was a big brown wall with all off our names, so you had to find your name on that wall, that was really great.
I couldn't find my name on the wall, but my mom did.
Moms are so great, she didn't leave the wall until I found her again.
I lost her at the wall, I saw somebody that I knew and mom was looking at the wall.
Yeps that was a funny moment.

So after the expo we did some walking and it was time to go to the NewPort Bay Club for our diner at Cape Cod.
We were so tired that we really needed to sit down and eat something.
The best restaurant for me is cape cod, it's nice you can sit, eat and relax that was just what we needed.

Mom never had a Glowtini, so after diner we went to the sports bar to get our glowtini.
Best way to end our first day at Disneyland Paris.