Orlando 2025 Day 3: Part 1, the 5K

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Splitting today into 3 parts: 5K, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot.

Delicious, delicious food of Epcot…

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

And thus it begins. The long walk to the start line.

Oh there’s the finish! We shall see you soon

But also the 5K isn’t timed and will not be in my Athlinks. SOOO

IT’S POTTY TIME, GET YOUR WIPES OUT!

So we are just going to have a chill training run. We have two actual races coming up starting tomorrow, after all. This is just the practice round.

My neck still kinda hurts from that Mako marathon — actually, Mine Blower probably did it — but the Tylenol is kicking in right about now 🙂

OK, we are in corral A.

OK I’m bored how about some Pokeymanz

Oh hell yeah Gengar EX!

Aaaaand we are off! There’s Aspen in the green on the left-hand side. The blurriness is very realistic because I can’t see jack without my glasses in the darkness.

It started out super chill because who cares? It’s not timed lol. But at the end I randomly felt like sprinting anyway because why not. Call it strides. The announcer went “ooh, looks like a sprinter coming through!” You’d better believe it does, my G.

Oh and I didn’t pay for PhotoPass because ain’t nobody got cash for that, so there are going to be some wicked watermarks incoming.

Just about caught up to Aspen!

WOW, that was nice, is it time for breakfast yet?

whoa Nelly! that is one crooked bib! but it looked fine in the other one!

holy tan lines batman

sprinting to the finish (sorry, these are out of order)

watch out you will be smoked

not young not rich and plus i’m boujee

racing in brand new Mickey shoes? you are bold my man

Alexa, play Eyes Closed by Ed Sheeran.

Yeah man. Orange noticed the camera. I most certainly did not.

After a while all the race photos look about the same tbh. That’s why I am not gonna pay $200 for the pass. Now if it was like $90, OTOH…

Umm I did not do my Duolingo Japanese today. All I did was a speedy math lesson with the sound off at the start line to keep my streak.

“I was one of the beautiful people. NOW LOOK AT ME!”

All right how much longer until this thing is over?

Oh ok yeah we’re done now.

I am Groot. Translation: we are all slaves to the unstoppable march of time slowly leading us towards an inevitable death. Oops, I meant HAVE FUN ROPE DROPPING AK!

My PR for the 5K is like 19:06, or 17-something if you count the 3 miles under 6 minutes I did on the extremely downhill Snow Canyon Half.

We don’t do that here. :V

Another “hell yeah we are at DISNEY!” moment. Feels good man.