'It was so wonderful that she was able to come with me!' It was particularly poignant to have Margaret with her: the two women completed the gruelling Great Wall Marathon in 2009 and planned to run the Disney races together but cancer intervened.Īlthough she's in chemotherapy, Margaret got the OK to go on the trip.

It took a lot of family support to train for a marathon while either running with or having to get back to a nursing baby but Sharon's hubby, JOHN, and her mom helped her through. 'It turned out that being on maternity leave was a great time to train and the baby is a very good sleeper.' 'I did the marathon in 2011 and my plan was to go back and do the Goofy in 2012 but I found out I was pregnant. Maybe that's because the third goofy part of the marathon-and-a-half is that Sharon is still a breast-feeding mom who took her eight-month old baby, Kyla, on the trip. 'I saw one gentleman who's run all the Goofy Challenges dressed as Minnie Mouse.

While Sharon avoided getting weird, the run is filled with thousands of people dressed as Disney characters, from Tinkerbell to full cartoon outfits complete with costume heads.

'You have to be Goofy to do it!' says Sharon's mom, MARGARET MACLEOD, who accompanied her daughter to the event. Runner SHARON MISIUDA, 37, completed the annual Goofy's Challenge at Walt Disney World earlier this month, earning a coveted Goofy medal and a Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse finishing medals.įirst, it's a half marathon followed the next day by a full marathon. There are a lot of Goofy people in the world and at least one of them comes from Brantford.

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