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Jan. 6th, 2020 04:14 pm This time tomorrow we'll be at the House of Mouse, and knowing us, we'll be loading up on food somewhere. Wednesday is packet pickup, and then Thursday the racing begins! I promise some photos this time around, and if you already follow me on Instagram there will likely be more there. (My Insta is mostly pictures of food, cats, and outdoor stuff with occasional tomato-faced post-race selfies) I've got everything I can think of packed and we've kind of got this more down to an art and science after doing it a couple of times. This will be my third Dopey Challenge and Fox's second. I feel about as ready as I can be, my last home training run on Sunday went pretty well, kind of slow and sluggish at the start but feeling pretty good after mile five and finished feeling tired but chipper. The weather isn't going to be fun - hot and humid - but the warm front responsible for that is also holding back a cold system that would probably shut the races down with storms. So I'd rather run and be miserable than not run and be miserable. :D
I'm a little anxious about leaving, but the neighbor lady has always taken good care of the cats before, and we've been emailing back and forth today. She works sort of late and I've been going to bed even earlier than normal when I can. At Disney we have a 3 AM wakeup to make the bus out to the corrals. Yes, that's incredibly early. Gun's at 5:30, but that's for the first corrals, so if you're in one of the last ones you've got a wait ahead of you. For example, the full marathon sends their chair racers off first at 5:30 sharp, the elites, then corral A. If you're in H ... you might get going by 6:30. The shorter races have fewer, but larger corrals. Like the 5k I think has three corrals. Anyway, doesn't matter, I'm anxious and babbling.
The only things I still have left to really DO are touch up my hair, tidy the kitchen, and print up a checklist for cat-sitting. I know she probably remembers how everything goes, but I personally like to have checklists, so I make them for other people in hopes they find them helpful. We don't have any special needs kitties right now, so it's basically food goes in one end, poop comes out the other, and there's only one cat who likes strangers and will come out for attention. Nana will come out and make nice to complete strangers, if you're a human, she wants pets from you.
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NO I'M NOT AT ALL NERVOUS WHY DO YOU ASK
I'm a little anxious about leaving, but the neighbor lady has always taken good care of the cats before, and we've been emailing back and forth today. She works sort of late and I've been going to bed even earlier than normal when I can. At Disney we have a 3 AM wakeup to make the bus out to the corrals. Yes, that's incredibly early. Gun's at 5:30, but that's for the first corrals, so if you're in one of the last ones you've got a wait ahead of you. For example, the full marathon sends their chair racers off first at 5:30 sharp, the elites, then corral A. If you're in H ... you might get going by 6:30. The shorter races have fewer, but larger corrals. Like the 5k I think has three corrals. Anyway, doesn't matter, I'm anxious and babbling.
The only things I still have left to really DO are touch up my hair, tidy the kitchen, and print up a checklist for cat-sitting. I know she probably remembers how everything goes, but I personally like to have checklists, so I make them for other people in hopes they find them helpful. We don't have any special needs kitties right now, so it's basically food goes in one end, poop comes out the other, and there's only one cat who likes strangers and will come out for attention. Nana will come out and make nice to complete strangers, if you're a human, she wants pets from you.
...
NO I'M NOT AT ALL NERVOUS WHY DO YOU ASK
