![]() ![]() (Photo by Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register/SCNG) The Disneyland Cast Member Friends & Family Holiday 5K at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. It didn’t help that Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Pluto were waiting at the starting line in their holiday best - making the staggered start even more stop-and-go then it already was. It took about 10 minutes for us to reach the starting line in front of the Hyperion Theater. My group was somewhere near the middle of the pack. In theory, the course was divided into thirds - runners on the left, walkers in the middle and rollers in wheelchairs and with strollers to the right.ĭisneyland released the racers in groups of a few hundred at a time in an attempt to prevent a clogged artery of humanity pulsing through the course. The main drag of Hollywood Land looked like Main Street USA during fireworks - crammed shoulder to shoulder with an endless sea of runners in the red race t-shirts handed out before the event. The throng of racers lined up along DCA’s version of Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood Land and stretched back toward the front gate along Buena Vista Street. With the promised showers passing to the north of Los Angeles, most racers threw caution to wind and opted against rain gear. It was still pitch black as the crowd swept into the side gates of Disney California Adventure and headed toward the starting line in Hollywood Land. ![]()
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