Wednesday 7th - Sunday 11th March

EURODISNEY + Summary of week 9: 9 miles

Managed a meagre 4 miles on the Hotel treadmill on Friday

Good timing as the family holiday co-incided with mid-marathon training - by and large a chance to rest the running muscles, and ease out the aches and pains of the past couple of months - or so I thought! Foolishly believing that completing a marathon would be the height of my physical and mental endurance this year, I hadn't reckoned on surviving five days at Eurodisney, Paris. Two children in tow, a punishing schedule in fitting in as many rides as possible with maximum autograph hunting of the Disney cast probably ensured that the training remains bang on schedule! Briefly, the highs and the lows:

Highs:
Quality family time
Enchanting characters (I know they're bored foreign students in suits but Dan truly believes that they live in Sleeping Beauty's castle and the Park is their daily garden!)
Cool rides - especially Pirates of the Caribbean and Guntastic Buzz Lightyear
Disneyland Hotel - awesome, makes kids of all of us
Innocence of youth
The Disney Parade - honestly, even tack can have a kind of style
The 2 hour period at the end of the day when the kids are both asleep and you can have a beer!

Lows:
Saturdays - Absolute murder. Takes Q out of the alphabet and makes you want to push / shove / scream (or all simultaneously). Thursday and Friday were OK though
Dead arms - Dan and James both decided that despite having suitable strollers, they wanted to be carried everywhere, and they refuse to take NO for an answer
The food - in the Park it is truly awful, chiptastic ...
Scary characters (if you're two years old!). James wailed even in the presence of the meekest Disney soul - ceratinly startled Goofy!