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Race Report: 2020 Walt Disney World Half Marathon

I am going to call this the Grumpy Half Marathon in honor of my spirit Disney character, Grumpy the Dwarf.  In truth, Donald Duck is the character Disney chose to mascot this race, but Grumpy is better.  Though, Donald is quite angry at times too.  My mood for the race was grumpy.  I've run the half marathon before several times, albeit the last time was 2012.  I was really looking forward to this race, but the fates would not shine so brightly on me.   Race Week This was truly a racecation.  We had a whole week in Florida prior to the event.  Originally, I was going down for the weekend.   My wife was able to get off and extend for the whole week, so we decided to take a road trip.  We started off a whole week prior from Maryland and drove to Hilton Head Island.  We stayed for one night at the Disney Vacation Club resort there (which was very nice, and we'd never been).  The next day we drove to Orlando and stayed with friends.  The rest of the week was spent based out of S