Marathon Weekend 2018

[princess_jamie]

Thanks! I had no idea I could do that.

Yeah - Its a nice feature! Its at the verrrrry end on the payment page

 

[Dopey Devon]

I made a deal with my sister that if she did the marathon the I would go on EE (I am a complete chicken when it comes to heights) thinking she would never do it! She has since signed up to Dopey.....looks like I'm gonna have to face my fear! Thats pretty much my only goal for marathon weekend and the thing I'm most fearing!!

 

[dta87]

2. Enjoy it - even the highways and WWOS (which sucked in 2013). I was so sick and exhausted that I really started to hate life between AK and DHS - so for about...12 miles?

I was hating life that whole stretch and I would say I was quickly approaching Heat Stroke and was severely dehydrated when I got to the sponge station at the entrance to WWOS since I had stopped sweating at that point. I stood at those sponges reloading my sponge for probably 10 minutes just trying to cool myself off. I basically walked the whole WWOS and overloaded on fluids as I did it given the frequency of my rest stops after the 20 Mile spectacular.

 

[ZellyB]

I was hating life that whole stretch and I would say I was quickly approaching Heat Stroke and was severely dehydrated when I got to the sponge station at the entrance to WWOS since I had stopped sweating at that point. I stood at those sponges reloading my sponge for probably 10 minutes just trying to cool myself off. I basically walked the whole WWOS and overloaded on fluids as I did it given the frequency of my rest stops after the 20 Mile spectacular.

That heat was no joke! I started getting lightheaded at mile 20 and about passed out at mile 22. Luckily they had ice in the med tent and a bag of that on my neck while I walked the next few miles helped revive me. It was ugly!

 

[steph0808]

I was hating life that whole stretch and I would say I was quickly approaching Heat Stroke and was severely dehydrated when I got to the sponge station at the entrance to WWOS since I had stopped sweating at that point. I stood at those sponges reloading my sponge for probably 10 minutes just trying to cool myself off. I basically walked the whole WWOS and overloaded on fluids as I did it given the frequency of my rest stops after the 20 Mile spectacular.

It was sooooo hot.

To be fair, I was dehydrated from being sick as well, but I literally (yes, literally) drank 100-125 ounces of water during the marathon and never stopped to pee once. At the later aid stations, I would drink a cup and also refill the two bottles I carried with me.

And those sponges were heavenly!

I never would have made it without those volunteers!

 

[DopeyBadger]

This marathon weekend will be bittersweet for me. This will likely end up as my Dopey (and runDisney) swan song for the foreseeable future. While it was a goal to complete every Dopey that was offered, life obstacles have made maintaining that goal difficult. So at this moment in time, it would appear this will be the end for me (although you won't get rid of me so easily on these boards... )

This trip will be different then the first 4 Dopeys for me. Every other trip has been a family vacation. Full of theme park days, lots of walking, little sleep, and mostly a normal Disney vacation outside of me competing in running. But this year will be different. Instead of a full extended family vacation, it will just be me and my mom (who will also be running Dopey). The intent of the trip is different. I'm not planning on doing much theme park visiting. Not much of anything really outside of a sole focus in Disney: to run.

So between a different type of Dopey trip and the possibility that this may end up being my last runDisney race, I decided to go big or go home on my goals.

My Marathon Weekend 2018 goals:

1) Sextuple PR Challenge. In my 4 previous Dopey runs (3 as non-first attempts), I have yet to accomplish the Sextuple PR Challenge. Since this may be the last try, I'm giving it everything I got. I'm looking for a lifetime PR at 5k, 10k, HM, M, Goofy, and Dopey all as non-first time attempts at these distances.
2) 5k - Sub 19 minutes
3) 10k - Sub 40 minutes
4) HM - Sub 1:30
5) M - Sub 3:00
6) Dopey - Sub 5:30
7) Finish in the Top 10 of the Dopey Challenge when evaluated by cumulative time
8) Successfully meet as many DIS'ers pre/post/during races as possible
9) Coach as many runners through the Marathon Weekend races as that'll honor me with that opportunity
10) Cheer my mom though her first Dopey Challenge at age 61
11) Most importantly - Beat the Rocket Scientist

 

[IamTrike]

Marathon Weekend Goals

I did this last year and thought it was a good experience. Full disclosure this time (last year I was sneaky), I am saving your responses to be revealed at a later time closer to race day.

Now that registration is out of the way for most of us, I'd love to hear your goals for Marathon Weekend. Here's how I see goals. They're personal. You chose it because that goal means something to you. It's important to you. Which means your goal is important to me. No goal is too big or too small. The person's goal to finish their first 5K and another's to take down Michael Wardian's Dopey World Record are equally important to me. So, I'd love to hear yours. And yes, even the super secret I don't want to admit it goals.


So, let's hear them! What's your goal? Remember yesterday (or a few weeks ago) you signed up for a race during marathon weekend for a reason, so what is it?

I'm doing Dopey and my goals are all over the place.
For the 5k I just want to have a good time.
For the 10K a big group of us are running. My goal is to get everyone across the finish line. (we are all running together as Toy Story toys in honor of a friend Andy who passed away this year.)
For the Half. I want to run hard. My goal is to break 1:40 and my stretch goal is to break 1:39
For the full. I want to get more character pictures than this year. Last year we got 26 I think during the Marathon.

 

[rteetz]

This marathon weekend will be bittersweet for me. This will likely end up as my Dopey (and runDisney) swan song for the foreseeable future. While it was a goal to complete every Dopey that was offered, life obstacles have made maintaining that goal difficult. So at this moment in time, it would appear this will be the end for me (although you won't get rid of me so easily on these boards... )

This trip will be different then the first 4 Dopeys for me. Every other trip has been a family vacation. Full of theme park days, lots of walking, little sleep, and mostly a normal Disney vacation outside of me competing in running. But this year will be different. Instead of a full extended family vacation, it will just be me and my mom (who will also be running Dopey). The intent of the trip is different. I'm not planning on doing much theme park visiting. Not much of anything really outside of a sole focus in Disney: to run.

So between a different type of Dopey trip and the possibility that this may end up being my last runDisney race, I decided to go big or go home on my goals.

My Marathon Weekend 2018 goals:

1) Sextuple PR Challenge. In my 4 previous Dopey runs (3 as non-first attempts), I have yet to accomplish the Sextuple PR Challenge. Since this may be the last try, I'm giving it everything I got. I'm looking for a lifetime PR at 5k, 10k, HM, M, Goofy, and Dopey all as non-first time attempts at these distances.
2) 5k - Sub 19 minutes
3) 10k - Sub 40 minutes
4) HM - Sub 1:30
5) M - Sub 3:00
6) Dopey - Sub 5:30
7) Finish in the Top 10 of the Dopey Challenge when evaluated by cumulative time
8) Successfully meet as many DIS'ers pre/post/during races as possible
9) Coach as many runners through the Marathon Weekend races as that'll honor me with that opportunity
10) Cheer my mom though her first Dopey Challenge at age 61
11) Most importantly - Beat the Rocket Scientist

Say what? DopeyBadger is retiring from Dopey?! I am sure this coming Dopey will be one of your most memorable.

 

[team weasel]

2018 Goals -

#1 - Actually get registered for the freaking half marathon. I'm seriously regretting taking the deferral option because I seem to be the only one who didn't receive a link and I can't seem to get anywhere with runDisney. I'm so lucky.
#2 - Stay healthy.
#3 - Actually get to run the race.
#4 - Celebratory dinner at 'Ohana.​

 

[croach]

Due to the dates of marathon weekend I'm going to do "just" do the Goofy for 2018. Don't imagine I will set any time goals for the half or full. Only goal I can think of at this time is all the character pictures. I'll be in an early corral so that helps with the pictures but it also means I can't set a goal of getting an on the course beer. Tradeoffs though so it's ok. If there's a group DATW on Monday I'll make up for it then. I stayed over Monday this time to hopefully experience that.

 

[Baloo in MI]

Goals for 2018 Marathon Weekend:

1) Running the 5K with my DD9 and just taking in the experience. She doesn't know she is running it yet, or that she is even going to WDW. She will be so excited!
2) Run the other three of Dopey faster than I ran Goofy in 2015; anything under 7:20. With an "A" goal of 7:00.
3) Enjoy the time with my family. DD14 starts High School in fall, getting away from school will make this time of year difficult in the future.

 

[Dis5150]

Marathon Weekend Dopey goals:
5k and 10k to run them with my DD26 and just have fun.
Half to take it super easy and stop for all the characters!
Full to finish in 5:30 or under. This is a very ambitious goal for me as it will require a 45 minute improvement in time. I plan to spend this year getting faster.

Edited to add: DATW again on Monday. Was great meeting a few of y'all this past year in Epcot and hope to do it again this next year!

 

[bananabean]

Yeah - Its a nice feature! Its at the verrrrry end on the payment page

Ahh! That's why I didn't see it - I never went that far. Sneaky Disney!

 

[PCFriar80]

2018 Goals [The tweedle dumb challenge]:
- Stay healthy throughout 2017 [not breaking my arm]
- Run the 10K with DW and soak it all in! This will be our inaugural 10K at Disney so I won't be able to chear you on at 6:00 AM from my post [actually a trash can] at Hurricane Hannahs and the 5 mile mark
- No thunder and lightning on the eve and day of the 1/2 marathon
- Run the 1/2 marathon; goal of 2:10 [I'm not getting any younger]
- Chear on runners from the BC on Sunday
- Enjoy 5 days of BC and parks after the 1/2 marathon on Saturday

 

[LindseyJo22]

I have extremely modest goals, since this will be my first runDisney challenge.

Goofy Goals 2018:
-complete training (this may be difficult, as we travel a ton during December, so some of the long runs may be really interesting).
-stay healthy!
-finish both races - no worries about time here
-get some character pictures
-ride an attraction during the race if possible


Aside from goals, I have some questions for you guys who have run marathons or challenges before:

I've got my first marathon in early November (Rock n' Roll Savannah), so if anyone has suggestions for how to make that work with Goofy training I'd appreciate it! I usually mash up the Galloway and Hal Higdon programs to get some of the longer runs in on the Galloway plan, but run a few more days a week. I'm not sure that "winging it" like that will work so well for such a long distance, though, and I never know what to do with the between races time either. I'm messing with my calendar and trying to plan stuff, though!

Also, any idea what the corrals tend to look like for the Goofy/marathon? I have a 2:12 ish half time from last year that I can use as POT - and unless my Little Rock Half or the Savannah times are astounding, I'm pretty sure that's what I'll end up using. Will that be enough to get me in a good place to take some character pictures, or should I focus on improving my time to get in a better corral?

 

[JeffW]

My Marathon Weekend 2018 goals:

1) Sextuple PR Challenge. In my 4 previous Dopey runs (3 as non-first attempts), I have yet to accomplish the Sextuple PR Challenge. Since this may be the last try, I'm giving it everything I got. I'm looking for a lifetime PR at 5k, 10k, HM, M, Goofy, and Dopey all as non-first time attempts at these distances.
2) 5k - Sub 19 minutes
3) 10k - Sub 40 minutes
4) HM - Sub 1:30
5) M - Sub 3:00
6) Dopey - Sub 5:30
7) Finish in the Top 10 of the Dopey Challenge when evaluated by cumulative time
8) Successfully meet as many DIS'ers pre/post/during races as possible
9) Coach as many runners through the Marathon Weekend races as that'll honor me with that opportunity
10) Cheer my mom though her first Dopey Challenge at age 61
11) Most importantly - Beat the Rocket Scientist

You had me at a BQ during Dopey, but after a sub 1:30 HM?

 

[DopeyBadger]

I've got my first marathon in early November (Rock n' Roll Savannah), so if anyone has suggestions for how to make that work with Goofy training I'd appreciate it! I usually mash up the Galloway and Hal Higdon programs to get some of the longer runs in on the Galloway plan, but run a few more days a week. I'm not sure that "winging it" like that will work so well for such a long distance, though, and I never know what to do with the between races time either. I'm messing with my calendar and trying to plan stuff, though!

I'm willing to help when the time comes. Making training plans and coaching others through it is a hobby of mine.

Also, any idea what the corrals tend to look like for the Goofy/marathon? I have a 2:12 ish half time from last year that I can use as POT - and unless my Little Rock Half or the Savannah times are astounding, I'm pretty sure that's what I'll end up using. Will that be enough to get me in a good place to take some character pictures, or should I focus on improving my time to get in a better corral?

A 2:12 HM is a McMillan equivalent 4:37 Marathon. That would put you in ~ G corral using 2017 Goofy corrals. I've started in G before and felt quite comfortable. Obviously, the further you move up in corrals the likelihood you will see smaller character lines. So, I'll always recommend trying to improve your POT during the year to optimize your experience. But at the end of the day, your likely to be in a great corral shape if you didn't change anything. For reference to move to corral F, you'd need ~2:05. It's doable from a 2:12, but a pretty sizable improvement. Keep in mind every Disney race is unique from a corral standpoint so these are merely historical references.

 

[DopeyBadger]

You had me at a BQ during Dopey, but after a sub 1:30 HM?

LOL, I guess if I'm aiming high, I might as well go for it. Who knows what'll happen! I'm likely to fail at these, but that isn't going to stop me from trying my hardest in training to be prepared to take them down.

 

[princess_jamie]

My Marathon Weekend 2018 goals:

1) Sextuple PR Challenge. In my 4 previous Dopey runs (3 as non-first attempts), I have yet to accomplish the Sextuple PR Challenge. Since this may be the last try, I'm giving it everything I got. I'm looking for a lifetime PR at 5k, 10k, HM, M, Goofy, and Dopey all as non-first time attempts at these distances.
2) 5k - Sub 19 minutes
3) 10k - Sub 40 minutes
4) HM - Sub 1:30
5) M - Sub 3:00
6) Dopey - Sub 5:30
7) Finish in the Top 10 of the Dopey Challenge when evaluated by cumulative time
8) Successfully meet as many DIS'ers pre/post/during races as possible
9) Coach as many runners through the Marathon Weekend races as that'll honor me with that opportunity
10) Cheer my mom though her first Dopey Challenge at age 61
11) Most importantly - Beat the Rocket Scientist

I may have to consider taking you up on that..

 

[BikeFan]

This marathon weekend will be bittersweet for me. This will likely end up as my Dopey (and runDisney) swan song for the foreseeable future. While it was a goal to complete every Dopey that was offered, life obstacles have made maintaining that goal difficult. So at this moment in time, it would appear this will be the end for me (although you won't get rid of me so easily on these boards... )

This trip will be different then the first 4 Dopeys for me. Every other trip has been a family vacation. Full of theme park days, lots of walking, little sleep, and mostly a normal Disney vacation outside of me competing in running. But this year will be different. Instead of a full extended family vacation, it will just be me and my mom (who will also be running Dopey). The intent of the trip is different. I'm not planning on doing much theme park visiting. Not much of anything really outside of a sole focus in Disney: to run.

So between a different type of Dopey trip and the possibility that this may end up being my last runDisney race, I decided to go big or go home on my goals.

My Marathon Weekend 2018 goals:

1) Sextuple PR Challenge. In my 4 previous Dopey runs (3 as non-first attempts), I have yet to accomplish the Sextuple PR Challenge. Since this may be the last try, I'm giving it everything I got. I'm looking for a lifetime PR at 5k, 10k, HM, M, Goofy, and Dopey all as non-first time attempts at these distances.
2) 5k - Sub 19 minutes
3) 10k - Sub 40 minutes
4) HM - Sub 1:30
5) M - Sub 3:00
6) Dopey - Sub 5:30
7) Finish in the Top 10 of the Dopey Challenge when evaluated by cumulative time
8) Successfully meet as many DIS'ers pre/post/during races as possible
9) Coach as many runners through the Marathon Weekend races as that'll honor me with that opportunity
10) Cheer my mom though her first Dopey Challenge at age 61
11) Most importantly - Beat the Rocket Scientist

Good luck on that! A very fast friend tried that in 2016, and he fell to pieces about halfway through the marathon. I caught him at ~Mile 18 (something which usually never happens!) and ended up pacing him to the finish. I'm hoping your attempt goes better! How do you plan to build up to that (trying to PR 4 days in a row)? I'm interested in seeing what sorts of adjustments you'll make to your training schedule to deal with that sort of effort.

Speaking of coaching, when you're recommending training plans for rookies with "just finish upright" goals, what do you think is the optimal long run? I'm thinking of a peak in the 16-18 mile range, but I"m wondering if that's going to be enough.