Hello All!
To say I’m getting excited to head out to California for the Dumbo Double Dare would be an understatement! I had such a great time at this race last year and have literally been looking forward to it since then – add in the an extra race (the 10k), an extra medal (Dumbo Double Dare) and some fun costumes and I can barely contain myself!
I’ve even been drinking out of my Disneyland mug : )
If you’ve been reading Live, Run, Grow since last year (first of all THANK YOU!) you may remember I ran the 5k with my mom and sister (both their first races – read about it HERE!)…
…and the next day met up with my friends Jenn and Pat for the half marathon where we earned our coast to coast medals (and I managed an unexpected PR!).
This year we have quite the group of runners in my traveling party!
Mom will again be running the 5k.
My sister and I will both be tackling 19.3 miles over the weekend for the Dumbo Double Dare (and both earning coast to coast medals!).
My husband Jason will be joining us for the 10k (and running his first race!) and in a surprise last minute addition my sister’s boyfriend Jeff will be joining in for his first half marathon!
(He hasn’t really trained, so if you see a guy that looks like this:
…but minus the smile on the side of the race course please show some runDisney love and give him a hand (or a piggyback ride) or tweet my sister (@cstar190) and she’ll come get him!) ** Just kidding Jeff, you’ve totally got this! : )
So, if I’m doing the math right the 5 of us have the potential to leave with a total of 11 medals by the end of the weekend! (I’m going to have to check what the baggage weight limit is for our flight home with all that hardware coming back with us!)
Now I just need to finish packing and look over my race-cation checklists!
Hotel – check! (Disneyland Hotel, very excited!)
Reservations – check! (Carthay Circle, Naples & Goofy’s Kitchen just to name a few!)
Waivers Printed – check!
Race Stuff – so much to remember! (Garmin, sneakers, costume, etc.!)
I’m trying REALLY hard to pack in a carry on…looks like I may actually make it this year!
(P.S. you can find my favorite race specific packing list on my friend Jenn’s blog HERE!)
I’m also really excited to meet some of my blogging friends this weekend in California! If you are going to be in Disneyland, please let me know – I’d love to say hello and take a pic! And if you see me please come over and say hi (KELLIE!), I promise I don’t bite (unless you catch me in a bad mood in which case I can’t promise anything).
And if you’re not going to be in Disneyland I’ll be posting pictures and updates here on the blog as well as on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, so make sure you’re following along!
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/LiveRunGrow
Twitter – https://twitter.com/dnardi710
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California, here we come!
Live, Run, Grow 
We are also dining at Carthay Circle (Sunday), Goofy’s Kitchen (Saturday brunch) and Naples (Friday and Saturday) Might be running into your group in more places than just the DL Hotel! Can’t wait and glad to see you have started packing Danielle!
Oh my goodness, we’re at Naples Saturday night and Carthay Sunday night too! There’s no way were missing each other this trip! See you soon!
Yay! That will be fun! Monday night we are booked at Napa Rose! 🙂
AHHH!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, I’m so excited! Tonight will consist of packing (ok actually UNpacking from january first….), finishing up a similar blog post, and getting all my electronics together! Yayyyyy Herd!!!
Haha, don’t tell Jason, but I fully intend to just leave this suitcase packed until Wine & Dine!
Have fun! I really want to do the DL half at some point 🙂
Thanks! I highly recommend it as a bucket list race (especially if you’ve never been to Disneyland, I LOVE it!)
Have SO much fun! Wish I was running this one!
You’re in Hawaii though! That’s almost as good as Disney ; )
Wish I could go…. but someone has to hold down the fort ! 🙂
Enjoy…. love, dad
Wish you all the best of luck!
YAYAYAYAY!!! It’s going to be an awesome weekend. Can’t wait
Way to blow up a girl’s spot! Lol. Ok ok, I PROMISE I am saying hi if I spot you guys 🙂 I am really looking forward to Disneyland (although super sad about leaving Hawaii) and can’t wait to get there!
It’s soooooo great the crowd you have going! Good luck and congrats to everyone!
Haha, you totally deserve to be called out! Do you know when you’re planning on going to the expo so we can coordinate meeting up??
We’re probably gonna hit up the expo first thing when it opens at 10 (gotta make sure they don’t sell out of the merchandise!) if you’ll be there round the same, text ,e and we’ll figure it out…if not, we’ll still figure it out. Can’t believe it’s time! 🙂
Extra good luck to all in your group! I hope you all will have a good trip. Run well!
Yay!!! I can’t believe its almost here!! Hopefully I’ll run into you at some point. How fun that you’ve got such a great group going!
Yes, I hope we are able to finally meet!
AHHH, SO EXCITED! Hope to see you there! 😀
I hope to hook up with you too Danielle!