Dopey anniversary races

[UK_Disney_Dopey_Hopeful]

Hi everyone

So after doing Dopey in 2024 I heard that the goofy was celebrating a milestone anniversary in 2025 (20 years I believe)

As I come from the UK I can’t afford to do this every year sadly and was gutted I would be missing out on an anniversary event

Does anyone know any other years that will be celebrating an anniversary of a race event either in 2026 or 2027?

Thabks

 

[fatmanatee]

In terms of Marathon Weekend 2023 was the big one, with the 30th Marathon and 10th Dopey. The prior year had an anniversary for the half I think? I had gotten a luggage tag for that but immediately got rid of it lol.

Not sure about most of the others. Springtime will hit 5 years in 2027 though.

 

[marty3d]

In terms of Marathon Weekend 2023 was the big one, with the 30th Marathon and 10th Dopey. The prior year had an anniversary for the half I think? I had gotten a luggage tag for that but immediately got rid of it lol.

Not sure about most of the others. Springtime will hit 5 years in 2027 though.

Will be interesting to see if they make a big deal of Marathon 35 / Dopey 15 in 2028. However I think we can be sure that 2033 will be huge with the 40th anniversary of the marathon and Dopey’s 20th.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Literally the only thing they really "do" for an anniversary year is the rubber-ish luggage tag. We were all very surprised when they included the "poster" for the 30th MW, but there is no significant difference between an anniversary year and a "regular" year for the races.

 

[KCO5988]

Will be interesting to see if they make a big deal of Marathon 35 / Dopey 15 in 2028. However I think we can be sure that 2033 will be huge with the 40th anniversary of the marathon and Dopey’s 20th.

I thought Dopey's first year was 2014 making the anniversary's 2024 and 2034. I did marathon weekend in 2013 and did the last unofficial dopey which was goofy plus the 5k as there was no 10k.

 

[fatmanatee]

I thought Dopey's first year was 2014 making the anniversary's 2024 and 2034. I did marathon weekend in 2013 and did the last unofficial dopey which was goofy plus the 5k as there was no 10k.

I think in that case it's technically 30th Marathon, 10th Dopey, and that's how they handle the anniversaries. So I might be wrong on Springtime, they'd treat 2026 as the 5th year running.

 

[Disney at Heart]

I thought Dopey's first year was 2014 making the anniversary's 2024 and 2034. I did marathon weekend in 2013 and did the last unofficial dopey which was goofy plus the 5k as there was no 10k.

2014 WAS the first Dopey, so add 9 more years (2nd-10th) to that to make 2023 the tenth anniversary. You forgot that the first year is included in the count.

 

[camaker]

I thought Dopey's first year was 2014 making the anniversary's 2024 and 2034. I did marathon weekend in 2013 and did the last unofficial dopey which was goofy plus the 5k as there was no 10k.

2014 WAS the first Dopey, so add 9 more years (2nd-10th) to that to make 2023 the tenth anniversary. You forgot that the first year is included in the count.

I think the confusion is that when RunDisney calls something an "anniversary", they really mean "running of". If the first Dopey was in 2014, then 2023 was the 10th running of Dopey, but 2024 was actually the 10th anniversary of that initial Dopey. We don't get to count our wedding day as our 1st anniversary, too, after all!

 

[MissLiss279]

I think the confusion is that when RunDisney calls something an "anniversary", they really mean "running of". If the first Dopey was in 2014, then 2023 was the 10th running of Dopey, but 2024 was actually the 10th anniversary of that initial Dopey. We don't get to count our wedding day as our 1st anniversary, too, after all!

I would hazard to say (and please don’t take this too seriously), that the ‘unit of measure’ for a wedding anniversary is a year - so the completion of 10 years of marriage is what we normally expect and call an anniversary.
However for races, the ‘unit of measure’ is the event itself (or ‘running of’) and so is 9 years from the first year run - so the 10th running or 10th anniversary (whereas anniversary = running in this case…)

 

[MissLiss279]

In terms of Marathon Weekend 2023 was the big one, with the 30th Marathon and 10th Dopey. The prior year had an anniversary for the half I think? I had gotten a luggage tag for that but immediately got rid of it lol.

Not sure about most of the others. Springtime will hit 5 years in 2027 though.

I think in that case it's technically 30th Marathon, 10th Dopey, and that's how they handle the anniversaries. So I might be wrong on Springtime, they'd treat 2026 as the 5th year running.

Just wanted to make sure we are clear on this - 2026 will be the 5th year running of Springtime Surprise. 2022 was the first year this weekend timeframe was back after COVID.

 

[camaker]

I would hazard to say (and please don’t take this too seriously), that the ‘unit of measure’ for a wedding anniversary is a year - so the completion of 10 years of marriage is what we normally expect and call an anniversary.
However for races, the ‘unit of measure’ is the event itself (or ‘running of’) and so is 9 years from the first year run - so the 10th running or 10th anniversary (whereas anniversary = running in this case…)

I take no offense at all! I especially find that seriously analyzing something that RunDisney does can be hazardous to one's sanity.

I would counter your unit of measure assertion with the very definition of "anniversary", which is based on the Latin word "annum", which means year. The unit of measure is itself described by the term, anniversary, independent of the type of event it's being used to describe. Further, the definition of anniversary specifies that it is "the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event" which precludes the initial event being included in the count.

Shockingly, RunDisney is misusing the term or, at the very least demonstrating an inability to count the number of years for an event. The only true surprise is that they seem to be able to correctly spell "anniversary".

Thank you for attending my overly pedantic Ted Talk titled "Anniversaries and How Not to Count Them".

 

[Zutroy]

I take no offense at all! I especially find that seriously analyzing something that RunDisney does can be hazardous to one's sanity.

I would counter your unit of measure assertion with the very definition of "anniversary", which is based on the Latin word "annum", which means year. The unit of measure is itself described by the term, anniversary, independent of the type of event it's being used to describe. Further, the definition of anniversary specifies that it is "the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event" which precludes the initial event being included in the count.

Shockingly, RunDisney is misusing the term or, at the very least demonstrating an inability to count the number of years for an event. The only true surprise is that they seem to be able to correctly spell "anniversary".

Thank you for attending my overly pedantic Ted Talk titled "Anniversaries and How Not to Count Them".

I bet you were a lot of fun to be around during Y2K, when everybody welcomed in the 21st century a year early!

 

[kps7795]

Springtime will hit 5 years in 2027 though

Could that possibly be the return of Star Wars to runDisney?

 

[fatmanatee]

Could that possibly be the return of Star Wars to runDisney?

I could see them doing it with the 10 miler (and it would be 2026 if they do the 5th year thing) but I don't expect SW to get a full race weekend at this point. Would guess it's more like what they're doing in 2025 for DL, getting mixed in with other characters.

 

[MissLiss279]

My hope is that the 5th running of Springtime Surprise will be Star Wars. I will be pretty sad if it’s not.