2025 Summer Virtual Series

[DduzDis]

Wait times for this virtual series seem longer than marathon weekend last month. Over an hour on two devices. I don't think I'll get shut out, but that would be crazy if I did.

 

[jrsharp21]

I am in for a 27 minute wait.

I am also only on one device. If I don't get in, won't be that upset.

 

[The Expert]

As much as I like the themes and the medals, I just don't feel compelled to sign up. When I finally hung all my medals up after our move, I realized I had a bunch from virtual races that I simply didn't care about. If these were from an actual race weekend, I'd be all over it, but I think I'm done with the virtuals for now.

 

[jrsharp21]

Whoa, what the heck. My timer went from 17 minutes and jumped to an hour.

 

[DduzDis]

Just went from 6 to 23. What a crazy ride this one is.

 

[CWTC]

Whoa, what the heck. My timer went from 17 minutes and jumped to an hour.

Ditto. I’ll kind of be disappointed if they sell out. The medals are cool. I was not expecting this to be so popular.

 

[1lilspark]

Mine was teetering back and forth between 10 & 11 mins than like 3 mins later said I was in lol

 

[jrsharp21]

Just went down to 31 minutes for me.

 

[DduzDis]

Back down to 6. But like Roz says "I'm watching, always watching".

 

[DduzDis]

Back down to 6. But like Roz says "I'm watching, always watching".

Got the virtual challenge. Did not expect this one to be stressful. Good grief.

 

[MATTERHORN]

Done! That was so fast and easy for me for once!

 

[CWTC]

I just got through and signed up for the series. I was not expecting to be in the queue for so long. Of course once I got in the queue, I was like “I MUST register” vs the indecisiveness I had yesterday about this.

 

[jrsharp21]

Registered for the challenge. Since I did my MW 2026 registration through a charity, I forgot about having to fill in some of the fields during registration. I started sweating it for a second. LOL.

 

[DduzDis]

According to the telegram app, the Pirates 5k is now closed. Wow!

 

[MerlinandtheMouse]

I just registered for the challenge and the Pirates and Jungle Cruise individual races are already sold out. Can’t imagine virtual races sell out that often, let alone within the first hour. Just goes to show…if you make cool medals, they will come.

 

[jrsharp21]

I just registered for the challenge and the Pirates and Jungle Cruise individual races are already sold out. Can’t imagine virtual races sell out that often, let alone within the first hour. Just goes to show…if you make cool medals, they will come.

Agree about the medals. I almost feel like rD knows that they don't have to come with a next level medal design for in person events because they are going to sell out regardless. But now they know they can sell our virtual runs with cool designed bling.

 

[fatmanatee]

Everything gone except for the challenge, just like last year. Think this one may have been quicker though.

 

[marty3d]

I wasn’t going to register - but just like pre-ordering merch I don’t really get why they have artificial limits. Why not just sell as many virtual as people want to buy?

 

[fatmanatee]

I wasn’t going to register - but just like pre-ordering merch I don’t really get why they have artificial limits. Why not just sell as many virtual as people want to buy?

Only thing I can think of is that they don’t have the capacity to handle too many orders. Felt like they were frequently having issues when they offered the virtual option for in-person races, which of course aren’t available now, despite probably making them a lot of money. It’s weird.

 

[jrsharp21]

I wasn’t going to register - but just like pre-ordering merch I don’t really get why they have artificial limits. Why not just sell as many virtual as people want to buy?

My guess is that the medals have already been ordered and delivered to rD. So based on the volume they ordered, that is what they have to limit the registration to.