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Star Wars Half-Marathon Weekend

In case you hadn’t heard, Disney recently announced the first annual Star Wars Half Marathon Weeekend. Events will take place at Disneyland in California from Thursday, January 15-Sunday, January 18. There will be a half marathon, a 10k, a 5k and a kids race. What’s nice about this is that Star Wars fans of different running skill levels can all participate together. Don’t think you’ll be ready for half marathon by January? A 5k is exactly 10 miles less! But for those of you feeling extra adventurous, you can run the Rebel Challenge, which consists of running the 10k on Saturday and then the half marathon on Sunday.

Star Wars Half Marathon Weekend Makes Its Intergalactic Arrival at Disneyland Resort in 2015

I don’t know why I didn’t see this coming when Disney bought the Star Wars franchise. Disney has been running races of various lengths at its parks for years, many with different themes, including the upcoming first ever Avengers Half Marathon Weekend.

If there’s any downside to the race, it’s the price. The half marathon is $195. The 10k is $105. The Rebel Challenge is $320 ($20 more than signing up for the half and 10k separately, but you do get a third medal and shirt). The 5k is $70. The kids race seems like a bargain at only $20. Now keep in mind, these prices DO NOT include park admission. And don’t forget about hotel and airfare. As a Disney Marathon veteran, I strongly suggest staying on a Disney property. Disney starts their races very early, as in pre-dawn. If you’re at a Disney property, you’ll have a much easier time getting to the starting line. 

All that said, as a Star Wars fan and a runner, I am hugely excited for this. Search your feelings. You know you are too. Now I just need to find some running rights with Correllian stripes going down the side.

If you’re interested in running this race,  I definitely recommend signing up for it quickly. Disney races tend to sell out fast, and with the added appeal of this being the first ever Star Wars themed race run by Disney, I expect it to sell out even faster. Registration for the Star Wars Half begins TODAY at 12 noon EDT onthe Run Disney website. You know I’ll be hitting f5 starting at 11:59!

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At The Theater #27: Oceans

How awesome is the pizza at Reel Pizza? So awesome that I thought about checking out The Karate Kid here just to get the pizza again. I wasn’t looking forward to seeing The Karate Kid, so I was happy to see it replaced by Oceans before we left Bar Harbor.

Despite what you may have heard, Oceans is not the prequel to Ocean’s 13.

And despite it being made by Disney, don’t be fooled into thinking this a movie you should take your lil’ precious to. I base this on the six year old sitting next to us who wanted to be anywhere but in this theater watching this movie. At least that’s what I picked up from her actions: banging her head into the back of her seat, talking loudly about random stuff, wandering back and forth from her mom’s seat behind our couch to the easy chair next us, and nearly climbing over the back of the occupied couch in front of us.

Bar Harbor is the perfect place to see Oceans. The beauty of the sea life is astounding to watch and if you’re like me, you’ll be sitting there in awe, thinking…dinner. Oh, how lucky I was to see this in Maine.

If you’re ever in Maine, do yourself a favor and go to Red’s Eats for a lobster roll. You will be happy.

My mouth was watering by the end of Oceans. Mmmm, those fighting crabs would look delightful in cake form.

Or made into stuffing and then coated around a halibut as I would discover less than 24 hours later.

Even lobster ice cream is delicious.

The one downside to Oceans, and it’s only a downside if you’re seeing it at Reel Pizza, is that it’s only 1 hour and 15 minutes long, which means no intermission. No intermission means we couldn’t get that second pizza we were planning to order.

That smoked salmon and mussels pizza would have been thematically delicious.

There’s another movie theater in downtown Bar Harbor. I’ve never seen a movie there. It looks like a cool, old style movie house. Unfortunately they were showing The Last Airbender all week, which is well below even The Karate Kid on my list of movies to see. Maybe next time, other Bar Harbor movie theater.