Marathon Weekend 2018

[girliea]

Just wanted to say I am really enjoying living vicariously through all of ya'll!

 

[StarGirl11]

Whomever decided to move the expo bus drop off/pick up I love. It was nice not to walk far through the rain this morning.

They’re starting to set up aid stations. I saw one having it’s tables put down as we approached Epcot.

 

[SheHulk]

Preorder jacket! @disneydaydreamer33

I always love the "all business" running Mickey face!

 

[WDWNY]

All the JetBlue flights were booked by the time I was able to try to get a hold of them to switch my flight with the waiver. Fingers crossed ill be able to get out of NYC at 7am!

 

[Disneyland_emily]

Although the bridge over the river at England in EPCOT can seem like a mountain.

The Studios ramp to Fantasmic isn’t pretty either at what mile 23?

 

[courtneybeth]

@DopeyBadger - I wanted to let you know that your estimates were fairly accurate for the 5k and 10k... to a point.

My running partner and I are both in E for the half and full, but he’s in C for the 5k and 10k and I got D.

I think it has to do with his submitted POT. He submitted a half of 2:27 and I submitted 2:33. I am capable of a 2:28 half but.... past the POT deadline. So now we are in different corrals. Doesn’t change anything for the plan I had for the 5k and 10k... just sucks we won’t be running together since I can’t move forward and he refuses to go backward.

 

[ZellyB]

This place is a madhouse. Very little signage and no direction to which line you should be in for bib pick up. Yowza!! We finally figured out which line to get into for Dopey pickup.

 

[Dis_Yoda]

All this chaos makes me glad we won’t be there until Friday

 

[DopeyBadger]

So it took 40 min from that point to get in building. There are more lines inside. Like a lot more.

 

[DopeyBadger]

@DopeyBadger - I wanted to let you know that your estimates were fairly accurate for the 5k and 10k... to a point.

My running partner and I are both in E for the half and full, but he’s in C for the 5k and 10k and I got D.

I think it has to do with his submitted POT. He submitted a half of 2:27 and I submitted 2:33. I am capable of a 2:28 half but.... past the POT deadline. So now we are in different corrals. Doesn’t change anything for the plan I had for the 5k and 10k... just sucks we won’t be running together since I can’t move forward and he refuses to go backward.

Yea comes down to bib # for 5k/10k instead of corral. My guess was about 1650 per 5k/10k corral.

 

[Z-Knight]

So it took 40 min from that point to get in building. There are more lines inside. Like a lot more.

check your facebook messenger...i sent you a request

 

[Chaitali]

Thanks for the reassurance on the elevation

 

[Barca33Runner]

Incompetence confounds me and there is no other way to describe this entire expo than as incompetence run amok. I’m pretty sure that if it were my goal to devise the worst possible system for the expo that I couldn’t possibly come up with something worse than what runDisney has done here.

 

[thomas blakeley]

Thanks for the reassurance on the elevation

Me and my wife did some research during our training and found this cool site. I don't know how accurate it is but not seeing that line jump sure is nice.
http://findmymarathon.com/race-detail.php?zname=Walt Disney World Marathon

 

[DopeyBadger]

No more lines inside. Just a little short one.

 

[furiated]

FYI There's a "hidden" photo op with Mickey in the building with the merch and Dopey/Goofy bib pickup. He's upstairs in the corner right above where you exit the merch area past the registers. If you do Dopey/Goofy bib pickup, as you exit, stay upstairs and don't follow the signs telling you to exit outside. Loop around to the front of the building staying on the upper level. There's a backdrop and a CM to do photos. When I did mine, there was no line at all since nobody knew he was there!

 

[bananabean]

Wow. These lines look crazy. I was planning to head over around 4 or 5 and hoping to avoid the crowds, but I'm not so sure about that anymore.

edit:

No more lines inside. Just a little short one.

Never mind! Thanks @DopeyBadger!

 

[rteetz]

This place is a madhouse. Very little signage and no direction to which line you should be in for bib pick up. Yowza!! We finally figured out which line to get into for Dopey pickup.

Yeah this is worse than I’ve ever seen it!

 

[croach]

The Studios ramp to Fantasmic isn’t pretty either at what mile 23?

Yeah this one always looks like a mountain when you turn that corner. That’s where Oswald has been recently too.

 

[Nole95]

Definitely chaos. No queue lines set up to get in just to pick up Dopey and Goofy stuff. Luckily everyone is managing to keep the queue organized. They then make you exit the building and get in a huge line to re-enter the same building just to get to official merchandise. It’s a mess. Got here at the same time last year and did not wait in a line like this. This change is not for the better.

Also heard someone mention that there were really long waits to check out. I’ll see once I get in.