Crazy David signed up for the January 2011 “Goofy Challenge” in mid 2010. He always shoots for the stars with his goals and this was a no different. So in early January, we all packed up and headed to Orlando, Florida..
If you do the half marathon on Saturday, you get a Donald Duck medal. If you do the full marathon on Sunday, you get a Mickey medal. And if you do BOTH of them, you get a big Goofy Medal!!! Like I said. Crazy David!!
He did the half marathon (13.1 miles) in a very respectable 2:20 time (10 minutes faster than my fastest half marathon!). He took it slow too since this was a warm up for the next day. On Sunday he completed the full marathon (26.2 miles) in 5 hours and 45 minutes. That is really great considering he stood in line for 30 minutes taking pictures with characters...
he said he just had to stop and see "Princess Tiana":)
He had a real hard time with the last few miles because of an injured foot so he had to walk those too! But he finished!!! It was not a spectator friendly event because he ran through all the disney parks and started at 5:30am! But we were there to see him at the end at Epcot.
He did great and is an inspiration to see him reach his goals time after time (his ultimate goal would be an ironman). Makes me want to do a race... we'll see after this little girl is born :)
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