Marathon Weekend 2018

[FelisLachesis]

UOA is only good if it's August and you are in desperate need of some AC...then it's just OK...my kids love it though and they aren't little anymore and would pull a Space Mountain trick on us like @FelisLachesis did HOWEVER DD 17 and DH are less likely to ride something than the rest of us.

The Space Mountain trick only works on complete newbies

 

[Baloo in MI]

If you get a chance, check out the Yule Tour that they do at Christmas time. The amount of time, effort, energy and preparation that goes into the Christmas decorations at the parks and resorts was fascinating. I had no idea that Disney has a warehouse dedicated solely to Christmas decoration and a staff that only works on Christmas year round. It's also a 2 year process to change existing decorations due to the logistics involved! There's also a lot of Christmas history that I had never heard, too. As a bonus, they gave us a pin specially designed for the tour afterwards. Not sure if they are still running it over Marathon Weekend, but it might be worth looking into.

That sounds so cool! I'd love to do that tour. Heck, I would like to work the Christmas decorating operation for a career! I will have to check this out.

 

[mrsg00fy]

I sure wish runDisney would give us a little extra time for proof of time for dopey. With the summer months fast approaching it leaves a short window prior to the 10/3 submission....unless you are good at running in heat and humidity. (Yuck).
I found a ten miler close to home on 10/1 but man is that cutting it close! Also have a ten miler on 10/22 that is a fast flat course. Decisions decisions!

 

[ZellyB]

I sure wish runDisney would give us a little extra time for proof of time for dopey. With the summer months fast approaching it leaves a short window prior to the 10/3 submission....unless you are good at running in heat and humidity. (Yuck).
I found a ten miler close to home on 10/1 but man is that cutting it close! Also have a ten miler on 10/22 that is a fast flat course. Decisions decisions!

Yeah, I'm doing a POT half on October 1. I've another POT I can use but it's not as good as I'd like, but I'm signed up for the 10/1 race and I'll just submit it as soon as I can to beat the 10/3 cutoff.

 

[courtneybeth]

I sure wish runDisney would give us a little extra time for proof of time for dopey. With the summer months fast approaching it leaves a short window prior to the 10/3 submission....unless you are good at running in heat and humidity. (Yuck).
I found a ten miler close to home on 10/1 but man is that cutting it close! Also have a ten miler on 10/22 that is a fast flat course. Decisions decisions!

I feel you on this. There are so many awesome races the first couple weekends of October that it really pains me that we can't use those for POT for Dopey. Star Wars, yes. Tink, yes. Dopey, sadly not.

Just means we have to do our best in the upcoming months

 

[FelisLachesis]

Question for you marathon vets:

How quick can I get in and out of The Expo on the first day? I'm planning on purchasing The Race Retreat and chEAR Squad Platinum for early entry on Wednesday. I see that the Dopey pickup and 5k pickup are in different buildings.

I'd rather just get my stuff and go, if I decide to buy any commemorative items, I'll pre-purchase them, and then pick them up with the Dopey bib.

 

[rteetz]

Question for you marathon vets:

How quick can I get in and out of The Expo on the first day? I'm planning on purchasing The Race Retreat and chEAR Squad Platinum for early entry on Wednesday. I see that the Dopey pickup and 5k pickup are in different buildings.

I'd rather just get my stuff and go, if I decide to buy any commemorative items, I'll pre-purchase them, and then pick them up with the Dopey bib.

If you get the early entry you can be in and out in good time. 5K pick up is outside in the corridor for Champion Stadium. Dopey is inside the HP pavilion. If you aren't buying stuff you could probably be done in 30ish minutes.

 

[Dis_Yoda]

Question for you marathon vets:

How quick can I get in and out of The Expo on the first day? I'm planning on purchasing The Race Retreat and chEAR Squad Platinum for early entry on Wednesday. I see that the Dopey pickup and 5k pickup are in different buildings.

I'd rather just get my stuff and go, if I decide to buy any commemorative items, I'll pre-purchase them, and then pick them up with the Dopey bib.

The quickest we've been in and out has been around 45 minutes from leaving our car to getting back to the car. That was when we got our Wine &DIne Challenge Bibs - did an extremely quick lap around the official merchandise and left.

 

[PrincessV]

Question for you marathon vets:

How quick can I get in and out of The Expo on the first day? I'm planning on purchasing The Race Retreat and chEAR Squad Platinum for early entry on Wednesday. I see that the Dopey pickup and 5k pickup are in different buildings.

I'd rather just get my stuff and go, if I decide to buy any commemorative items, I'll pre-purchase them, and then pick them up with the Dopey bib.

It depends... on lots of things you can't control, unfortunately. I don't care to linger at expos, so I try to get in and out quickly, and I've alwyas been able to do that in the past. Not so this year for Dopey. I drive and my plan was to go straight to the expo at about 1pm, grab a bite to eat, get my stuff, and get out. But traffic was backed up so far, it would have been at least 30 mins for me to even get into the parking lot. So I turned around and ate at a resort. Checked in with friends and they reported a loooong line just to get into the WWOS complex. I tried again about an hour later and was able to park easily, and even got into the complex, but then had a long line to get into the Field House to pick up my Dopey stuff. I didn't even bother with the expo in the J Center, as the line to get in wound all the way around the soccer fields.

I don't know why that happened - I've never seen it that bad at any other race. And I hope it doesn't happen again, but I'm mentally preparing for it, just in case.

 

[FelisLachesis]

It depends... on lots of things you can't control, unfortunately. I don't care to linger at expos, so I try to get in and out quickly, and I've alwyas been able to do that in the past. Not so this year for Dopey. I drive and my plan was to go straight to the expo at about 1pm, grab a bite to eat, get my stuff, and get out. But traffic was backed up so far, it would have been at least 30 mins for me to even get into the parking lot. So I turned around and ate at a resort. Checked in with friends and they reported a loooong line just to get into the WWOS complex. I tried again about an hour later and was able to park easily, and even got into the complex, but then had a long line to get into the Field House to pick up my Dopey stuff. I didn't even bother with the expo in the J Center, as the line to get in wound all the way around the soccer fields.

I don't know why that happened - I've never seen it that bad at any other race. And I hope it doesn't happen again, but I'm mentally preparing for it, just in case.

That was why I quantified my question by saying I wanted to get there as early as possible, using chEAR Squad Platinum and Race Retreat to get in as early as I could. I'd rather be in a park than staring at overpriced merchandise

 

[FelisLachesis]

That was why I quantified my question by saying I wanted to get there as early as possible, using chEAR Squad Platinum and Race Retreat to get in as early as I could. I'd rather be in a park than staring at overpriced merchandise

I just realized how stupid I sound. How much merchandise at Disney is overpriced? (it's rhetorical!)

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

I'm sad my husband never got to experience the original!

The original 'you', or the original Figment?

 

[Dis_Yoda]

The original 'you', or the original Figment?

The original Figment

He's got pretty close to the original 'me'. We've been together since I was 18 and I'm now almost 31. So he got me from the freshmen year of college - through engineering school - 4 job moves (2 of which made us move states) and I've seen him from his awkward - just on his own days at 20 - through moving up the ranks at his job from a floor associate to manager. We've dealt with major moves, major deaths, and other major life decisions. I sometimes feel like we're the odd ones for our age group. People told me we were crazy to get married at 21/23!

Instead of a major 10 year anniversary thing next winter - all our money is going to Run Disney between January and April instead with 4 race trips!

 

[Dis_Yoda]

I just realized how stupid I sound. How much merchandise at Disney is overpriced? (it's rhetorical!)

Hey! There are some reasonable items! Just not much in the RunDisney side of things!

 

[MommaoffherRocker]

I sometimes feel like we're the odd ones for our age group. People told me we were crazy to get married at 21/23!

Your story is so similar to mine! DH and I met at 16/18 and were married at 21/23 and people told us we were crazy too. 12 years later we are still going strong I love that you guys are doing runDisney races for your anniversary!

 

[TeeterTots]

The original Figment

He's got pretty close to the original 'me'. We've been together since I was 18 and I'm now almost 31. So he got me from the freshmen year of college - through engineering school - 4 job moves (2 of which made us move states) and I've seen him from his awkward - just on his own days at 20 - through moving up the ranks at his job from a floor associate to manager. We've dealt with major moves, major deaths, and other major life decisions. I sometimes feel like we're the odd ones for our age group. People told me we were crazy to get married at 21/23!!

Your story is so similar to mine! DH and I met at 16/18 and were married at 21/23 and people told us we were crazy too. 12 years later we are still going strong I love that you guys are doing runDisney races for your anniversary!

Us too! Been together since 1998, age 17, Married 10 years in August!! If I could only get him to run with me! Haha

 

[princessbride6205]

Another young couple here! . Been together since 2001, married in WDW at age 23/28.

I also like Figment and will ride regardless of how meh it is.

My sentiments exactly! I so miss the 80s version!

 

[FelisLachesis]

Thanks regarding the expo and getting out quickly. My girl might want to shop, but I may have to drag her by her bib to get out of there and into Epcot. It starts at 10 or 11 with early entry? (at least for this year's run?)

And I have another question. There's a Photopass table at the expo, is that where we'd connect our race bib numbers to our MDE account (and thereby, interlinking it with our Magicbands), so any photopass pictures would get linked to our account?

 

[Dis_Yoda]

Thanks regarding the expo and getting out quickly. My girl might want to shop, but I may have to drag her by her bib to get out of there and into Epcot. It starts at 10 or 11 with early entry? (at least for this year's run?)

And I have another question. There's a Photopass table at the expo, is that where we'd connect our race bib numbers to our MDE account (and thereby, interlinking it with our Magicbands), so any photopass pictures would get linked to our account?

You have to connect your bib to your photopass after the races. It won't show valid until then!

 

[Sailormoon2]

And I have another question. There's a Photopass table at the expo, is that where we'd connect our race bib numbers to our MDE account (and thereby, interlinking it with our Magicbands), so any photopass pictures would get linked to our account?

You'll be able to do this directly on MDE after the races