Disney Princess Half: The Costumes

There were tons of great costumes at the race. A LOT of princesses, parent/kid combos, dudes dressed up as princes (and princesses). My favorite is definitely this Doctor Who/Disney cross-over I spotted at the 5K. She handmade it all (I NEED TO FIND THE TARDIS FABRIC!). The tshirt is iron on pictures of Doctor Who/Disney.

She also had a little Pascal (which I totally should have gotten for my costume!) with a sonic screw driver. 

One of my favorite things was seeing parents running with their children. (This was more the Family 5K than the half) 

Since I was running in these, all the pictures are the backs of people unfortunately, but you still get the idea. 

This picture is probably illegal to put up - but I just had to show how awesome this guys costume was! I took the crappy one from the back. FULL RED SUIT! in 80 degree weather!! Running 13 miles in that costume is what I call true love...or insanity.

One of my favorite memories from the Half was around mile 1. I ran past two men probably in their 30s wearing the floor length Snow White and Cinderella dresses. Lots of women were running past chuckling. Some yelled "Aren't you going to be hot!?" This was their response:

Snow White: The worst part about these costumes is the thong!
Cinderella: At least we didn't have to wear our heels.Snow White: What!?! You didn't tell me that! I'm wearing mine!

Seriously - comedy gold mine! I wanted to stay next to them the whole race! But alas, I got sidetracked by Capt. Jack Sparrow. It will be a little weird running the Rock n' Roll half this weekend and not seeing 99% of people in costume, but I'm still pretty excited for all of the GREEN. 

Disney Princess Half: The Look

The race was so much fun: fireworks, DJs, Disney Princesses and Princes at every mile, and 22,000 people running. It's hard to beat that!! Almost everybody ran in costumes. (Look out for a follow up post on those!) My Rapunzel outfit turned out really well! 

I bought a Team Sparkle purple skirt and a purple performance T from Target. Then I sewed on pink ribbon to make it look more princess-y. The ribbon frayed a lot on the ends after sewing it on. I'm sure there is something you can buy to keep it from doing that, but since I'm a procrastinator and waited until a few days before I flew to Orlando to finish my costume, I didn't have time to research. Instead I used the quick-fix of hot gluing the ends. It worked out really well and didn't even look that bad!

So Rapunzel. That girl must have some mad brushing skillz. I bought gold colored yarn to make a really long braid. I spread it out on my living room floor then divided it into 3 sections. 

When I divided it, all the hair got TANGLED. Touché Disney. 

It took me forever to braid it because of the constant tangling and having to move 1 strand at a time. I really needed a hoard of little girls to do it like she had in the movie. (If you're going to attempt this I recommend you bribe some friends to help.) I finally got it done and then used my trusty hot-glue gun to attach some flowers I bought at Michael's. 

To attach it to my head I put my hair in a bun, then wrapped the braid around my head and the bun and let the rest hang over my shoulder. I bobby pinned it in pretty well too and used a large flower clip to mask where I had tied a knot at the top. 

This was after my run, so the bun had fallen out, but you get the general idea. 

When I ran I draped the braid over my shoulder so it wouldn't drag on the ground. My neck got pretty sweaty holding it, but otherwise it was pretty easy to run with. 

The pièce de résistance of my costume was definitely the frying pan. I thought originally it would be the braid since it dragged on the floor, but I got the most comments on the pan. Luckily I found a plastic one in a Campfire Kid's Fish Fry set so I didn't have to lug around an extra 10lbs. (AND it makes a great fan for running in 80 degree weather!)

Flynn Rider also had a mini frying pan so right before I took this picture (which by the way, pretty much made my life) we fake battled with them. HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?!?!

So that was the race from my costume's POV! (Here's one more shot of me pre-race.) #canigobacknowplease

Friday Musings #31

I finished the race and am still alive!! The Disney Princess Half was wonderful - everything I could dream of! I'm still kind of tired from the long weekend as we had to wake up at god-awful hours both Saturday and Sunday. (4:40am, and then 3:40am) Then after "running" I cleaned up and spent an entire day walking around in the parks. My feet were not too pleased with me and decided to let me know by swelling up to the size of small balloons.

I did buy some new sweet kicks at the expo though. And ran in them yesterday once the swelling went down. I also bought a sweaty band at the expo and it is AWESOME. I want to buy them in ALL THE COLORS. They don't slip at all and there are a million different designs (including SPARKLE!!)

Hopefully this weekend I'll get all of my pictures uploaded and then I can share highlights of the race and all the awesome costumes I saw. Get. Excited.

P.S. Sorry if gifs annoy you, I can't stop using them!!!

Tangled

FOUR DAYS!!! That's right - 4 days until the Disney Princess Half Marathon!! I have been doing a lot to prepare for the race - listening to the Tangled soundtrack on repeat, watching the movie a few times, and diligently working on my costume. Oh yeah, I guess I've been running too... which usually ends up with me feeling like this:

Anyways, I'm excited to have it all done and finally be in Disney. Look forward to posts next week about how the race went (amazing I'm sure!), my costume, and much, much more!! Until then - let's all dance around like pretty pretty princesses!!

Friday Musings #30

It's FRIDAY!!! WOOHOOOOOO. Time to break it down. I'm heading to my parents house for the weekend to catch up on some TV with my mom and shop at Wal-mart. Yay cheap things! I need to get a bunch of yarn to make a Rapunzel braid for the Disney Princess Half. Otherwise I think I pretty much have my costume together! 16 days to go!