So I'm still going to follow along with this thread, because it's a few months until definitive decisions need to be made and registration opens, but I probably won't be doing Princess next year after all. I still
really want to, but I don't think I'll be able to justify it. I found out yesterday that, assuming I'm still in my same job position and in the same district next school year (I'm a teacher), my Spring Break will be in late April, which coincides with the dates for the 2017 Star Wars Dark Side Weekend. Even though I'd still have to travel out the afternoon/evening of the day of the half marathon to get back for Monday (the race weekend is at the end of our Spring Break week) it makes more sense to go to that event over Princess if I do any at all (and it's not like I'd be going just for convenience - I do have interest in Star Wars). I'd be able to give myself a cushion to travel in a few days prior and no personal days would be needed. In a perfect world, I'd take the personal day in February to go to Princess weekend, and then go for Dark Side over Spring Break, but I don't think I'll pull that off. Especially since I've got this grand idea of trying to do a super quick trip over Labor Day for
Disneyland Half weekend that same year to get a Coast to Coast (oh how I want one so badly!). 3 runDisney races in one year is not likely to happen! So at this point, as much as I want to do Princess, it may have to wait until 2018 and I'll do Star Wars next year instead.
Being a teacher really just doesn't mesh with wanting to do RunDisney!