{"id":3288,"date":"2020-02-28T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2020-02-28T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:44:43","slug":"disney-princess-10k-the-rise-of-the-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"Disney Princess 10K & The Rise of the Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What\u2019s the best way to get rid of the winter doldrums? The answer is to travel to the happiest place on earth (aka Disneyworld), run a 10K during princess half-marathon weekend, and then luck into being able to ride the newest ride at Disneyworld, The Rise of the Resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second year that Jim and I have run the Princess 10K. It\u2019s the perfect distance for us. First, it\u2019s not a real race distance, so there are fewer hard-core runners in the race. Second, it is the perfect psychological distance because you are done once you hit double digits. And, third, I don\u2019t have to train for it because Jim sets the pace during the race. 😊<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unexpected obstacle we hit this year was the unusual cold in Orlando. At 5:00 am the morning of the race (which started at 5:30 am), the temperature was 47 degrees and windy. This is perfectly good running weather. This is horrible wait-for-the-race-to-start weather. I don\u2019t think I thawed out until the next day (when it was 72 degrees and sunny). But the race was good, and Jim did much better this year than last year. This year, no one asked him on five separate occasion whether he was okay in the 100 yards between the finish line and the bus. Progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disney Princess 10K<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Rise of the Resistance is the newest and most popular ride at Disneyworld. Conventional wisdom says that you need to be at Hollywood Studios by 6:30 am, be in the park at 7:00 when it opens in order to obtain a boarding pass to the ride. There is no shortcut (well, I am sure there is a shortcut, but not one we could find, and we looked). The three of us decided it wasn\u2019t worth getting up that early to try to get on the ride since we knew we\u2019d be back soon, and we were leaving that day. However, we were at Hollywood Studios by 8:00 am and decided to try and get a boarding pass just for fun. While we did manage to get a boarding pass, it was a waitlist boarding pass. Disney only kinda sorta guarantees groups 1-63 (and not even that), and we were boarding group 132. So we thought not only was it unlikely we would get to board, but it was even more unlikely we would get to board before we had to leave to catch our plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hollywood Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We were in EPCOT when it became clear that our boarding group was likely to be called around 5:00 pm (we had to leave at 6:00 to catch our plane). We rushed out of EPCOT, drove to Hollywood Studios, arrived at 5:00 at which point our boarding group had already been called. We power walked through Hollywood Studios, arrived at The Rise of the Resistance at 5:09, and were through the ride by 5:50 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case anyone is interested, the ride (really, an experience\/ride) was beyond description!! It was a totally immersive experience, the special effects were incredible, and we walked out of the ride thinking it was one of the most amazing theme park experiences we\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We can\u2019t wait to do it again! 😊<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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