Marathon and then a cruise?

[Raenstoirm]

I hope to run the dark side this spring and then hop on a cruise ship. Has anyone raced in the morning and got to the port in time? I have never run disney before so I have no idea about time tables. Im not an overly fast runner, but I wont be with the balloon ladies either and its only a half marathon. I am thinking trying to do it all will be too stressful, but I wondered if others have done it. Might just stick with the dream since it leaves mid week.

 

[mmouse37]

Personally, no, but our tablemates ran the marathon in the morning and then headed to the port for their cruise. They were tired that first night at dinner but didn't seem to have any problems getting to the port.

MJ

 

[Bree]

It is doable, but you may be exhausted and need to nap in the afternoon. You will be assigned a corral letter based on your submitted proof of time from a different race you have run. The corral order (A, B, C, etc) start with the fastest runners and end with the slowest runners. The start times are staggered with carousel A beginning at 5:30, carousel B at 5:45, carousel C 6am and so on and so on. You have to be in your assigned corral no later than 5am. There's lots of good info on Disboards about RunDisney if you go to the Events section of WISH. I ran the Princess 10K last year in Corral C and we started at 6am. I was showered and on my way to a park with the kids by 8:15am.

 

[Scillycruisers]

I did it in Feb with the princess half. I was in corral C and we started about 6 mins after the race start time - the time between corrals got longer as the letters went up as there were more people in each corral. I was finished, had a coffee, met my husband, drove back to the resort, showered and finished packing well in time for our 10am check out time. No problem at all getting to the cruise, we were on board well in time for lunch.
It will depend how long it takes you, obviously, but you should have plenty of time and what a nice way to relax after the run!

 

[over50visits]

It is doable, but you may be exhausted and need to nap in the afternoon. You will be assigned a corral letter based on your submitted proof of time from a different race you have run. The corral order (A, B, C, etc) start with the fastest runners and end with the slowest runners. The start times are staggered with carousel A beginning at 5:30, carousel B at 5:45, carousel C 6am and so on and so on. You have to be in your assigned corral no later than 5am. There's lots of good info on Disboards about RunDisney if you go to the Events section of WISH. I ran the Princess 10K last year in Corral C and we started at 6am. I was showered and on my way to a park with the kids by 8:15am.

From this post, and the OP implying they're an average runner, sounds like this will be zero problem. Recreational runners can do a half marathon easily in a couple of hours and aren't exhausted. So finishing running by 9, an hour or so to get away from the race and started to the port, you'll show up there before a LOT of folks flying in during the day or leaving from WDW resorts. No worry. Enjoy the run!

 

[bumbershoot]

"and aren't exhausted"...lol.


I'm a slowpoke and hadn't trained adequately for this year's January Half. (it was the 6th Half I had done in a year and I got progressively slower with each one) I had a later corral. I took time after the Half to sit and rub my feet, put arnica on them, go to the bus leisurely, walk from the front of AOA to the LM rooms. Showered, hair, makeup, clothes, packed what DH and DS hadn't packed, and got over to the WWofS in loads of time to see my son's Mickey Mile (I believe the run started at noon). If they had been there waiting for me I'm sure we could have gotten to the port on time.

BUT. I like it better the way Disney did it for last year's two Castaway Cay challenges and the upcoming January's Challenge, where the cruise actually leaves on Monday after the race weekend.

 

[MunFam]

Here is some food for thought...even experienced runners with lots of training behind them get injured. My last half, I blew out my hip flexor...BAD. I was in so much pain that I had a panic attack. I finished the race, slowly, holding my hip in place and crying, because, dang it! I was going to finish...but they held me in medical for hours and then released me to go to the hospital. (This was a local beach run half, not a Disney)...but nonetheless, I would not have made it to any cruise ship because I did not get home til about 6pm. I was in pain for weeks.

I have a friend, actually he is the president of a very large running club...and he blew his knee out at a race last year. That injury required same day surgery.

I would never run a full or half marathon and plan to get on a ship that same day. Things happen, even to really seasoned runners.

 

[bumbershoot]

Great point, Mun.

And if you have that plan, get the insurance!

 

[Raenstoirm]

It is doable, but you may be exhausted and need to nap in the afternoon.

Ive run enough halfs to not be worried about being tired (minus the 3am wake up of course lol). After my first half I spent the next 24 hours in the bathtub, but it wasn't a problem after that first one. Two weeks later I ran my second half and I was expecting to have the same issue, but I was pleasantly surprised and was totally fine after it.

Here is some food for thought...even experienced runners with lots of training behind them get injured.

All too familiar with that. I fractured my hip on a run. It wasn't even a long run either. I don't remember exactly, but like 5 miles or something. I started having horrible pain after about a mile, but, "hey, Im a runner, we have pain sometimes" so I kept going. When I got home I could not get my hip to bend to walk up the front steps to my house. I told my leg to step up and it just wouldn't respond. Ended up crawling up my steps! Even after that it still took me two weeks and another failed run to finally go to the doctor. Stress fracture. Knocked me out of running for almost 6 months because I refused to follow orders (went to disney shortly after and didn't use the crutches for example.) Id like to say, Ive learned my lesson about listening to your body, but I can't guarantee that! lol

 

[Donna3271]

I've done it. I've also done the parks until closing after running the 1/2 (2 hour pace- nothing to write home about). BUT... I run 8-10 miles every day, and my body is conditioned. Only YOU know your body and what you are capable of.