runDisney posted the link yesterday for the 2012 Disneyland Half Marathon waiver and bib numbers! I am runner number 8569. As the race gets closer, I get more and more excited. What is there not to get excited about really? I get to fly out to one of my favorite places in the world, Southern California, and have a girls weekend with my friends Danielle and Chelsea. We get to spend a wonderful weekend at Disney's Paradise Pier hotel, check out the new Cars land in California Adventure park, party in Disneyland and run the Disneyland Half Marathon! 
On another note, my runs this week have been tough. The heat and humidity are slowing me down a bit. I have also been getting awful side stitches. Prior to this week, I had not gotten a side stitch in like a year. My mission this week will be to figure out why it is happening and make it stop!
My eating this past week has been mostly clean. Since the first half of July was so, well not clean, it feels really good to be sticking to a clean eating plan.
A dream is a wish...
--Amy
I just bought Kara Goucher's "Running for Women" and she had a bit on side stitches in it:
ReplyDeleteA side stitch is a cramp, usually on your right side. Stitches are common among new runners but rare among veterans. Several possible causes include muscle spasms, lack of oxygen to the GI muscles, internal organs pulling down on the diaphragm muscle and so on. More to the point, it hurts and it's hard to run through it. Two methods of combating stitches are (1) exhale forcefully while bending over at the waist (admittedly not pretty) and (2) press your fingers into the painful area. A third method probably works best of all: stop and walk until the stitch goes away. Many new runners find if they avoid eating any solid food just before a run, they get stitches less frequently."
Hope that helps!
Thanks for the info Chris! I will try it out!
DeleteI'm so jealous! Best of luck at the race! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link! How did you find it? Maybe I'm just being an airhead, but I didn't get an email and I can't find it on the site! Doh!
ReplyDeleteI ca not wait for Disneyland Half. It was my favorite race until I ran Tinkerbell. Best of luck!
Side stitches: I rarely get them anymore, but when I do, I think it's because my breathing is too shallow. I tend to be a bit of a stress case and sometimes when I run, I forget to breathe deeply.
A friend found the link....can't take credit for finding it myself. Thanks for the tips.
DeleteEnjoy the DL half! My Mom promised we'd go next year so I can finally get my C2C after Princess and Donald next year.
ReplyDeleteWow, they got those waivers out early! Lately, it seems like they've been waiting until around 2 weeks prior to the race to get them out...which makes me crazy because I am NOT patient! Good luck at DL! I did it last year to complete my C2C for 2011 and my BF has done it 3 years in a row...sadly, we're skipping it this year to instead do the Tower of Terror 10 miler & Food and Wine Festival at the end of that month, since they moved the Wine & Dine half to the last weekend of the festival (BOOOOO!). Do you have plans to run Tinker Bell at DL? I liked the course for Tink MUCH better than the DL half personally...but running through Angel Stadium during the DL half is fun...and not included in the Tink course!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking it was really early too! 6 weeks! I will be at Wine and Dine and Tink too.
DeleteMy goals are to get all my miles in and properly hydrate ;) We are at the same hotel! We should organize a meet up!
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your other question - my first full is the Bank of America Chicago Marathon - October 7th!
I would love to meet up! Do you have any day/time in mind?
DeleteHave a great time and good luck! I can't wait to read about it when you are done! I loved staying at Paradise Pier for Tink- loved being so close to the start/finish line :)
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