I didn’t run in January so don’t have that as a comparison, but was happy with this course. I was in Corral D, and there was the typical crowding at the start of a larger race at the beginning but it spread out pretty quickly once we turned on Katella. There were definitely some parts of the course inside the park that were narrow but no bottlenecks anywhere. There were some narrow turns at times but for those they had speakers playing a loop warning us of a turn or course narrowing. Overall, very happy with the course!
I have this tag too for a finish line photo
Cool curious to see what ends up on the rD page. Since it’s not showing for everything.
I can’t speak on crowds because I was ahead of where I was in January. So I don’t have a good comparison. That being said lighting and marking/announcements did seem improved. There were still some problem spots (exiting Avengers) but it was better in comparison to Jan. I didn’t have much gripes about Jan’s course. But I was much happier with the ones we had this weekend.
I felt kinda similar when I did it in January, I think it’s a bit of them being more off course and a bit of the course seeming kind of tight in spots, I remember feeling a bit surprised when a few of them came up.
Yeah this was an issue that regularly occurred prior to the hiatus. Unf I don’t think there’s a way to fix it. Anyone who’s done rD DL enough times from pre hiatus knows about this being a thing. They try to keep it from happening from what I remember but there’s only so much asking a crowd to move that will be effective and these people know it.
Totally agree with this. I did do January, and it was sooo much better. I would venture to say that this might have been the least crowded Disney half I've ever run. There were some crowded places in the parks, and along the canal, but I never felt bottlenecked like I have before on Disney courses.
Well we were half wrong since Black Panther and Groot were actually available for non selfie photos. But they still had SW selfies and the Dora Milaje as selfies. Maybe someone was reading these and made a move to listen to it at least partially?
Wait, where were they? There had been a spot where they do Avengers photo ops during the day that I thought would have made sense and it's a bit of a ways off the courses for the DL half weekend but it seemed like they had enough space do pull it off.
Groot was in front of Mission Breakouts sign.
I think the person was taken to the hospital first but yes this is very sad. He made a TikTok the day before about how the heat was affecting him… so tragic. I am guessing this is why runDisney hasn’t done any social media posts since before the start of the half.
They also wiped his results from the results page which I find a very interesting move. I'm not entirely sure why they would want to "erase" him from the race results.
Chatting with a runner in line for photos yesterday at Disneyland. Said she started in last corral, course flag was updated to red at the water stop, and everyone was swept around mile two. While on the bus, apparently balloon ladies went by, they complained about being swept before balloons, and race personnel offered they could try to catch up and make up the five minutes that had passed. She was not happy and sounds pretty terrible if that was truly their experience. Didn’t have time to get any more info than that.
