Marathon Weekend 2017!

[IamTrike]

@DopeyBadger does spreadsheets, I do maps. I made this to use with my students next semester, but I thought the crowd on here might appreciate it as well:

WDW 2017 Marathon Week Participant Map

The data are from the Race Results database, which includes user-entered data. Some entries included invalid locations and were not included. Apologies to our international friends as only US locations are mapped.

That's pretty cool. Since your'e using Esri have you done work with the runners tapestry segments to see which ones are most common?

 

[camaker]

@DopeyBadger does spreadsheets, I do maps. I made this to use with my students next semester, but I thought the crowd on here might appreciate it as well:

WDW 2017 Marathon Week Participant Map

The data are from the Race Results database, which includes user-entered data. Some entries included invalid locations and were not included. Apologies to our international friends as only US locations are mapped.

Love the map! I never would've guessed there'd be 22 attendees from my small town. Two of us are on here, though...

 

[mbwhitti]

@DopeyBadger does spreadsheets, I do maps. I made this to use with my students next semester, but I thought the crowd on here might appreciate it as well:

WDW 2017 Marathon Week Participant Map

The data are from the Race Results database, which includes user-entered data. Some entries included invalid locations and were not included. Apologies to our international friends as only US locations are mapped.

Now I'm curious as to who the other people are from my area. I know three of us from Oxford, MS but not the others. There's one from my hometown too..

 

[lahobbs4]

Love that map! We have some people on here with some serious skills. Being 100% useless with data, I'm in awe!

Now if anyone needs a photographer while you are there, that's about all I can help with

 

[Keels]

Has anyone with Race Retreat received their entry pass yet?

 

[Geographilia]

That's pretty cool. Since your'e using Esri have you done work with the runners tapestry segments to see which ones are most common?

That I leave to my students! I have a research methods class where I like to have datasets like this for just that purpose. Now that I've 'massaged' the data a bit, I can release it to the class for a series of assignments and have them hypothesize spatial relationships with other variables. The tapestry and market segmentation elements in Community Analyst (bought running shoes, watched a marathon on TV, visited a theme park, etc) can be run in regression against the participation index. Spatial auto-correlation, hot spots...there's so much fun to be had with this! When I have new data, I like to hold off on the initial analysis until I do it with the class so that I don't bias their predictions in any way.

Love the map! I never would've guessed there'd be 22 attendees from my small town. Two of us are on here, though...

Now I'm curious as to who the other people are from my area. I know three of us from Oxford, MS but not the others. There's one from my hometown too..

When I pulled the data from the results site (http://results.xacte.com/?kw=WDW) it came with all names and bib numbers. Spatially, that data isn't relevant, and while it's technically public data and could be republished, most people would find it a bit creepy. But you can always use the results site to search by state or city.

I would also note that in some places, a participant may be listed more than once. For instance, someone running the 10K may also have registered for the Marathon. They are counted once for each race and twice overall--because it is two events--but it's technically the same person.

 

[MommaoffherRocker]

@DopeyBadger can you please change my corrals, Track Shack read my email and went back to my registration and said they were able to place me in J.

 

[bellanotte10]

Apparently no one from my town is participating in this according to the map... not even me... haha

 

[Geographilia]

Apparently no one from my town is participating in this according to the map... not even me... haha

Nice: The invisible runner... The map is missing about 6,000 participants, based on the total from the results page. Some of those are international. The rest were invalid locations or places that couldn't be identified on the map. I tried to correct as many as I could, but didn't get to every gap.

 

[IamTrike]

That I leave to my students! I have a research methods class where I like to have datasets like this for just that purpose. Now that I've 'massaged' the data a bit, I can release it to the class for a series of assignments and have them hypothesize spatial relationships with other variables. The tapestry and market segmentation elements in Community Analyst (bought running shoes, watched a marathon on TV, visited a theme park, etc) can be run in regression against the participation index. Spatial auto-correlation, hot spots...there's so much fun to be had with this! When I have new data, I like to hold off on the initial analysis until I do it with the class so that I don't bias their predictions in any way.

When I pulled the data from the results site (http://results.xacte.com/?kw=WDW) it came with all names and bib numbers. Spatially, that data isn't relevant, and while it's technically public data and could be republished, most people would find it a bit creepy. But you can always use the results site to search by state or city.

That sounds like a fun marketing/analytics class.

And that's marketing, trying to use as much data as possible without crossing the creepy line.

 

[bellanotte10]

Nice: The invisible runner... The map is missing about 6,000 participants, based on the total from the results page. Some of those are international. The rest were invalid locations or places that couldn't be identified on the map. I tried to correct as many as I could, but didn't get to every gap.

eh its fine. It makes me laugh because I saw a map once of what was considered "metro boston" and what was considered the "north shore" of Massachusetts... my town wasn't either. no color assigned to it to put it in either category... so I'm sadly not surprised haha.

 

[DopeyBadger]

@DopeyBadger can you please change my corrals, Track Shack read my email and went back to my registration and said they were able to place me in J.

Will do! Happy to see they made the correction!

 

[Dis5150]

@DopeyBadger can you please change my corrals, Track Shack read my email and went back to my registration and said they were able to place me in J.

What!!? Sure, just leave me in the back alone!

(JK! Happy they were able to fix you!)

 

[Dis5150]

This was just in my Twitter feed and made me LOL.

 

[Z-Knight]

What!!? Sure, just leave me in the back alone!

(JK! Happy they were able to fix you!)

Oh, you won't be alone ... watch your back

 

[cavepig]

So, I'm having like marathon jealousy here not doing it in a few weeks, so looking back at pics from this year and thought I'd share this Everest one for anyone thinking of riding it. I was at it at 9:10am this year & it says standby 15 minutes, but I highly doubt it really was 15 unless a ton of runners were in line unlike a normal morning as I think it usually defaults to that at park opening. No way I was riding it anyway. Just though I'd share...

 

[Dis5150]

Oh, you won't be alone ... watch your back
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Luckily I am not that far in the back!

 

[JeffW]

The air quotes are inferred, right, lol?!

I call my 2012 Marathon shirt "the most expensive training shirt I own" because I broke my ankle 3 weeks before the race and couldn't participate. We still went on the trip, and since my wife was running the half, I picked up the shirt at the expo. That shirt definitely wasn't "free"

 

[MeridaAndAngus]

Looks like all the Balloon Ladies from this year are back for 2017! For tracking purposes:

Marathon:
Nancy Austin - 10707
Molly Novosad - 10701

Half Marathon:
Debra Cooley - 56488
Sue Mohr - 54974

10k:
Sue Mohr - 65115

Awesome! Thanks!

 

[PrincessV]

1) If we start the 5K in the last corral, how much time do we "really" have to finish the 5K without being swept? An hour? or less? I know the required pace is 16 min/mile which would mean 48 minutes from the time the last runner leaves the last corral, but don't they allow a little bit more than that for the 5K? At this point I've given up trying to train for a certain pace and just want to encourage DH to walk the distance as fast as necessary. Turns out he hates running/racing even more than I was afraid he might...but I can't leave him behind from the beginning of the race.

I've never, ever seen them really sweep a 5K at WDW, other than for medical need. I'm not saying they won't ever, but I've been among the last to finish multiple times and have strolled in with the crew taking down the timing clocks, lol! I think my longest was around 1:30:00 starting from a second-to-last corral.