2017 Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend

[bumbershoot]

Not having done the RnR even though they have one in San Antonio, do they really pick up people who are unable to run any more and take them a couple of miles or so up the course and let them cross the finish line ?

It's right there in the FAQs.


I personally have absolutely ZERO problem with people doing that, and I don't have a problem with how rundisney does it. I've never had to use the options and hope to never use them, but I don't mind that the options are there.

Part of the fee for events pays for medals and shirts. If one doesn't get a medal, then one is paying relatively more for the experience than another person is. And that irritates me. I have no need to make events into some elite nonsense; if I wanted to be part of that I would have tried to be an Olympics contender. I'm just a person, and the events I participate in are for normal people. Yes there will be winners; those winners are elite and I'll likely never meet them. I was just reading about an event in St Thomas called 8tuffmiles. Shirt and medal are after the finish; you must finish to get them. I always plan to finish, even when I'm not as trained as I wanted to be, but I doubt I'd sign up for that. It's just too snobby for me to be interested in.


Someone had a sign at RnR yesterday that said "run your own race". I think that applies to this issue. If someone gets a medal when they didn't finish, or finish the whole distance on their feet, that's their race. It's not my race. It's theirs. THEY know what happened. Who cares what we think of it? Who cares if someone has a medal but they skipped a mile or so of? I have a feeling (though I do not know) that it would be marked in some way on the finish times list.


The other thing RnR Vancouver last year (maybe every year, not sure!) did that I loved (and did take advantage of) was that for those of us with certain (long) time expectations and who were in the last corral, we could choose to start our race half an hour before official start time. So OUR corral was actually in front of the elites. It was lovely for two reasons; it gave us a chance at finishing a bit earlier in the day than we otherwise would (which helps out the organizers and city as well) AND it allowed us to see the elites. OH gracious that was so exciting, to see those young men and women just flying by. Very very inspiring. Those people are on a plane going home by the time I finish, so I never see them.

The elites had to have known the situation since they could see us, and we knew the situation, but you could tell that a bunch of middle of the pack people had not read all of their race info b/c they were being quite rude as they finally caught up to us and were wondering why walkers and walk/run and just slower runners were in front of them. Lots of passing on the right (when there was almost no room on the right) going on at a certain point...

Always read ALL the race info, even if you think it doesn't apply to you!

 

[derekleigh]

It's right there in the FAQs.


I personally have absolutely ZERO problem with people doing that, and I don't have a problem with how rundisney does it. I've never had to use the options and hope to never use them, but I don't mind that the options are there.

Part of the fee for events pays for medals and shirts. If one doesn't get a medal, then one is paying relatively more for the experience than another person is. And that irritates me. I have no need to make events into some elite nonsense; if I wanted to be part of that I would have tried to be an Olympics contender. I'm just a person, and the events I participate in are for normal people. Yes there will be winners; those winners are elite and I'll likely never meet them. I was just reading about an event in St Thomas called 8tuffmiles. Shirt and medal are after the finish; you must finish to get them. I always plan to finish, even when I'm not as trained as I wanted to be, but I doubt I'd sign up for that. It's just too snobby for me to be interested in!

I will respectfully disagree with you. It actually irritates me when companies like RnR assist people (via transporting them) to a point farther up on the course as well as races that give finisher medals to people that did not finish. Why? Because this just gives in to ham-n-eggers from crying when they don't finish and clearly the only signed up to get a medal. I'm not including people that train their butts off and something just doesn't go as planned. So people don't finish and get their medal, that is life. Narrow down the reason and try again.

Personally with the exception of the 5Ks, I feel rD should cut the pacing requirement down to 14 minute/miles because they are so concerned with opening parks on time. Disney races will never be an elite-type of events, which is what it should be. However there needs to be a cutoff somewhere. People get a shirt as a participation memento, if they finish they get their medal. If not, all extra medals should be donated.

 

[Ariel484]

 

[courtneybeth]

Oh look.... over there... a topic change!

Let's talk about which Princess we'd like to see as the theme and why. It's rumored to be Snow White, but are there any others you'd like to see? What would you imagine the medals looking like?

 

[Gryhndmom]

Oh look.... over there... a topic change!

Let's talk about which Princess we'd like to see as the theme and why. It's rumored to be Snow White, but are there any others you'd like to see? What would you imagine the medals looking like?

As a red head I loved having Ariel so I would like Merida next but they probably won't do two red heads in a row!that being said I don't recall having Snow White before so that would be cool !

 

[keahgirl8]

As a red head I loved having Ariel so I would like Merida next but they probably won't do two red heads in a row!that being said I don't recall having Snow White before so that would be cool !

I would love having Merida! Snow White was the first princess, so even though she's not my favorite, it would be cool to have her.

 

[Ariel484]

Oh look.... over there... a topic change!

Let's talk about which Princess we'd like to see as the theme and why. It's rumored to be Snow White, but are there any others you'd like to see? What would you imagine the medals looking like?

Ariel is my fav buuuuut doubt they'd do the same twice in a row. I'd love Tiana, Rapunzel or Belle but I'm really thinking it'll be Snow between her being this year's mile marker 13 and the fact that 2017 is the 75th anniversary of the movie (I think?! Something like that).

 

[Keels]

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[courtneybeth]

I thought thry may do Belle since the new live action Beauty and the Beast movie is coming out at around the same time. I wouldn't mind anything with her since she's my favorite.

If it's Snow White I'd love to see the 5K medal be in the shape of an apple. Have a red highlight on the glass slipper maybe?

 

[Ariel484]

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Hey same!

I thought thry may do Belle since the new live action Beauty and the Beast movie is coming out at around the same time. I wouldn't mind anything with her since she's my favorite.

If it's Snow White I'd love to see the 5K medal be in the shape of an apple. Have a red highlight on the glass slipper maybe?

Hmmm...assuming it's Snow, I'm gonna say 10K will be the same as past years but with an apple (so like this year's medal was the same shape as in the past but with a shell). 5K...Snow with 7D? Or maybe the dwarfs will be the kids medallion? Oooh, a poison apple 5K medallion would be cool...

Princess half medal will be exactly the same but with different colors. I like the idea of GSC with the red tint!

 

[Hollysmum]

I would LOVE Tiana as she is my favourite princess but I'm thinking it will be Snow White which is just as fantastic as she is my youngests favourite princess Just can't wait!!! I've purchased a bib through Magical Miles and now waiting (impatiently) for the registration and everything to come through

 

[courtneybeth]

Hmmm...assuming it's Snow, I'm gonna say 10K will be the same as past years but with an apple (so like this year's medal was the same shape as in the past but with a shell). 5K...Snow with 7D? Or maybe the dwarfs will be the kids medallion? Oooh, a poison apple 5K medallion would be cool...

Princess half medal will be exactly the same but with different colors. I like the idea of GSC with the red tint!

I'm still waiting for a Villains race so if I can get close to that with a Poison Apple I'm sold. The more I think about it... the more I'm getting excited about a Snow White themed race. But now that i'm probably excited for it, the theme will change and we'll all be surprised. HA!

I would LOVE Tiana as she is my favourite princess but I'm thinking it will be Snow White which is just as fantastic as she is my youngests favourite princess Just can't wait!!! I've purchased a bib through Magical Miles and now waiting (impatiently) for the registration and everything to come through

Tiana would be wonderful. She's the princess of hard work and staying focused on a dream/goal. Sounds like a person who is training to run a half marathon, right?

 

[RunBakeLove]

So I am trying to plan on *roughly* how much I'll need to set aside for registration. I did the half this year and plan on doing the challenge, and possibly the 5k if my friend does decide to come visit and run it with me. I'm trying to decide if I want to get the pins for each race though. I got the pin for the half this year, but I'm not sure if I want to get them again...

For those of you that do get the pins, what do you do with them? Maybe if I can think of something "cool" to do with them, I can justify spending the money on them

 

[Nessats]

Ariel is my fav buuuuut doubt they'd do the same twice in a row. I'd love Tiana, Rapunzel or Belle but I'm really thinking it'll be Snow between her being this year's mile marker 13 and the fact that 2017 is the 75th anniversary of the movie (I think?! Something like that).

Snow White was released in 1937, so next year would be the 80th anniversary. At least that's what Google tells me. Still, it would be an anniversary year for Snow White.

My daughter, who is 23, is a redhead and would love for it to be Merida. DD has curly red hair very much like Merida's (well, a little more under control...). A couple years ago, we visited Disneyland and waited in line to visit with Merida. A little girl walked up to my daughter, tapped her on the arm, and asked, in the cutest little voice, "Are you Merida?" We were still in line to meet Merida when Merida had to "go and check on her horse," per the cast member. It took her longer than usual to return, so the cast member worked his way down the line talking to people. When he got to DD, he took her by the hand, said, "Look! She's back! Come on, princess!" and led DD down to where Merida had been meeting people. He handed her Merida's bow and said, "Come on up and meet a princess!" My daughter was a bit embarrassed, but it was the highlight of the trip for me. When Merida had returned and it was our turn, the cast members told her that DD had been imitating her, and Merida pretended to be mad. It was wonderful.

 

[Ericaxo0528]

Hey everyone! I've been silently watching this thread for some time but now I'm deciding to jump in. This will be my first run Disney event and I'm SOOOO excited! I took a 3 years hiatus from running (and gained some unwanted weight...yippy lol) but I've been back into running for about 4 months now, dropped 30lbs so far, and decided to do the 10k. The competitive side of me is DYING to do the half but with weighing the pros and cons, I think it would be much more enjoyable to do a distance I'm comfortable with instead of pushing myself and being disappointed with my results. Plus it just gives me another excuse in my book of about 2994072 of why I need to make yet ANOTHER trip to Disney lol. I cant wait to see which Princess will be featured this year! My vote goes for Belle as shes my favorite

 

[Gryhndmom]

Hey everyone! I've been silently watching this thread for some time but now I'm deciding to jump in. This will be my first run Disney event and I'm SOOOO excited! I took a 3 years hiatus from running (and gained some unwanted weight...yippy lol) but I've been back into running for about 4 months now, dropped 30lbs so far, and decided to do the 10k. The competitive side of me is DYING to do the half but with weighing the pros and cons, I think it would be much more enjoyable to do a distance I'm comfortable with instead of pushing myself and being disappointed with my results. Plus it just gives me another excuse in my book of about 2994072 of why I need to make yet ANOTHER trip to Disney lol. I cant wait to see which Princess will be featured this year! My vote goes for Belle as shes my favorite

Welcome to the thread ! You will get lots of information to hopefully help you out ! And congrats on the 30lb weight loss...you go girl ! I love your approach to the Disney races, go with what you are comfortable with and works for you. Much like you I don't need much of an excuse to go to Disney

 

[ReLiMe]

So I've decided to use my GSC deferral and register for the 5k and 10k instead of the 10k and half and volunteer to work the half since I'll be there that weekend anyway. I've also decided to bypass our yearly cruise for a chance at getting coast to coast for 2018 for Princess and Tink. Thank everyone for their feedback, advice and encouragement.

 

[Keels]

So I've decided to use my GSC deferral and register for the 5k and 10k instead of the 10k and half and volunteer to work the half since I'll be there that weekend anyway. I've also decided to bypass our yearly cruise for a chance at getting coast to coast for 2018 for Princess and Tink. Thank everyone for their feedback, advice and encouragement.

That pink C2C is SO worth it!!

 

[Keels]

Found the Active link for registration. Of course, no hints there OR pricing. Le sigh.

 

[courtneybeth]

The passholder page is up and ready - no links. No estimated costs either.