Marathon Weekend 2018

[GollyGadget]

Anyone who knows me well would tell you that I'm a happy go lucky type of gal who always has something to smile about. Despite this, my favorite character is currently Sadness. I'm not really sure why, I just love her.

Second and third place go to Chip & Dale. I loved Rescue Rangers as a child and I still love interacting with these two at the parks.

P.S. Go Bucky!

 

[rteetz]

P.S. Go Bucky!

You just joined and I like you already!

 

[DopeyBadger]

Anyone who knows me well would tell you that I'm a happy go lucky type of gal who always has something to smile about. Despite this, my favorite character is currently Sadness. I'm not really sure why, I just love her.

Second and third place go to Chip & Dale. I loved Rescue Rangers as a child and I still love interacting with these two at the parks.

P.S. Go Bucky!

In case you didn't see it and you're still in the area, a group of us are getting together to do the Milwaukee Running Festival in October. You and anyone else are welcome to join.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/c...ea-dis-meet-race-in-july-to-december.3574050/

 

[mslezalie]

My Favorite character is Stitch. He's cute and fluffy. Especially classic Stitch. I'm not a fan of the modern Stitch design.

Rounding out my top four characters: Winnie the Pooh. I seemed to have loved him as a child, but I don't recall why. I still have my giant Winnie the Pooh stuff animal. Rapunzel, due to her positive personality. As well as Mulan. She was the first Disney character I felt I could identify with.

 

[courtneybeth]

Announcement went out today that RawThreads Club got more entries for Dopey. For $125, you get access for one year to RunDisney race entries, merch discounts (ie: February was 20% off all product) and a $25 gift certificate that you can use site wide (plus a welcome gift pack).

So if you wanted to Dopey, you'd pay $125 to join, plus $575 for the race -- includes your Active fee! They have all races available for WDW marathon weekend too! May be a good alternative for anyone looking for entries still.

 

[NeverlandClub23]

After attempting Dopey this year (doing all the races except the half obviously), we have decided the half is our perfect distance moving forward. Long enough to get to experience a few parks, but not too long to destroy your feet and make the walk through the airport the next day excruciating! We do a handful of halves every year so our pace is pretty good to not have to be chased by the balloon ladies like we were for the marathon (in hindsight, we should've submitted one of our race times to get us in a closer corral instead of thinking it wouldn't matter being in one of the last ones...).

We'll be there for the half in 2018 staying at VWL! (stayed at CBR this year and loved it! just love WL too! )

 

[Anisum]

I just wanted to say kudos to this community and their goals for marathon weekend. Last year we had 33 people give me goals and this year we have 66. You guys are awesome!

I don't remember if I gave my goal in this thread or in the Dopey one but my goals are:
1. Finish.
2. Finish in the upright position.
3. Possibly DATW

Announcement went out today that RawThreads Club got more entries for Dopey. For $125, you get access for one year to RunDisney race entries, merch discounts (ie: February was 20% off all product) and a $25 gift certificate that you can use site wide (plus a welcome gift pack).

Just got my welcome packet. It had some fun surprises in it! Still waiting on my $25 gift certificate but I enjoyed not having to stress about day of registration.

 

[cburnett11]

I'd love to hear your goals for Marathon Weekend.

5 in my family will be doing the Full Marathon. For everyone but me, it will be their first marathon. Most of us are busy training now, but hopefully everyone will be ready by January. My wife and daughter-in-law are training hard right now. Unfortunately my wife has a history of injuring her ankle area(s)... stress fractures. My son and daughter are both procrastinating on their training... we'll see how that turns out for them but they at least have a history of running if you rewind the clock a few years. So they sorta know what they are up against.

My goal is to get my wife through this marathon. It will be a big achievement for her and I want to be there for her the whole race. We will use some predetermined run/walk/run interval. Right now it is 60/60. I want my focus to be on her, but not so much that I drive her crazy for the whole 6 hours. If she stays healthy, I think she could possibly finish in 5:30, but that would likely be a stretch goal and probably something that I'm looking at more than her. So really the goal is to get to the start healthy and finish the race with my wife smiling.

As far as the rest of the bunch, I hope they are all able to finish and have a good time. My daughter-in-law is putting in the most work, so I hope she has a great experience. She's very persistent and I just hope the race is able to start and she can execute on all her training. As far as my son and daughter, I just hope they can train enough to survive the event. I think my son will eventually start training and he'll probably be okay. Pride will likely be his biggest roadblock. I'm not sure if he plans to run with his wife or solo. It will probably depend on how much he spends running in the summer/fall. My daughter will probably do the least training possible. I'm guessing she'll end up trying to run with my wife and I. She will be doing the DCP in the fall, so I'm guessing any free time she'll have will be playing in the parks instead of actually training. I really can't blame her.

It should be a great weekend for my family. I hope all of us on this forum have a great time.

 

[courtneybeth]

Just got my welcome packet. It had some fun surprises in it! Still waiting on my $25 gift certificate but I enjoyed not having to stress about day of registration.

Email them if you can - they're awesome about responding right away. The gc should have been sent to your email. It's a code

 

[Anisum]

Email them if you can - they're awesome about responding right away. The gc should have been sent to your email. It's a code

They are! I just contacted them today! I was away when my package came in so I just got around to it.

 

[LindseyJo22]

Whee, got all of our accommodations sorted out for Marathon Weekend!

Thank goodness for my in-laws who can book at SSR as their home resort They booked us for Marathon Weekend, and we booked them their October trip at the Poly, so I think everyone wins here

I may miss the monorail access, but I'll take having a room over wondering about it for the next 10 months or so.

Now I need to really sit down with my training calendar, since after this weekend and next the Savannah RnR Marathon and the Disney Marathon are the only big races on my horizon.

 

[RENThead09]

Must have been an easy transition for you then. From red/white polka dots to red/white stripes!

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Better Dead then Cheer for Red!

Go Gophers!

LOLOLOL

That one time... when I got into a fight walking through the beer garden at Dane County Arena when the I was the mascot for the visiting team....ya, that was cool. (badger band does kick a$s though)

 

[rteetz]

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Better Dead then Cheer for Red!

Go Gophers!

LOLOLOL

That one time... when I got into a fight walking through the beer garden at Dane County Arena when the I was the mascot for the visiting team....ya, that was cool. (badger band does kick a$s though)

HEY WE'VE GOT A GOPHER IN HERE!

 

[rteetz]

HEY WE'VE GOT A GOPHER IN HERE!

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[jmasgat]

Whee, got all of our accommodations sorted out for Marathon Weekend!.........
I may miss the monorail access, but I'll take having a room over wondering about it for the next 10 months or so.

It's nuts trying to guess on DVC right now. I am not an owner, but wanted to do AKL--no dice for my request. Seems like everyone booked at the opening of the 11 month window. My sister gave me her DVC password so now I can check availability, and now I may try to engineer a split stay.

So much work! And what I really need to do is pin down the rest of my accommodation for my May England trip.

 

[mbwhitti]

It's nuts trying to guess on DVC right now. I am not an owner, but wanted to do AKL--no dice for my request. Seems like everyone booked at the opening of the 11 month window. My sister gave me her DVC password so now I can check availability, and now I may try to engineer a split stay.

We are doing a split stay... we've done it a couple of times before. The only thing I don't like is that middle time without a room in the one day and not being able to fully unpack. Marathon weekend we are splitting between BWV and BLT (which we hope to switch to Poly). We could not decide if we wanted monorail or epcot so we chose both! It'll be worth it in the end I think.

 

[Curiouser&curiouser!]

Just registered for the 2018 1/2 Marathon! After being let down last month for not being able to run my first 1/2 marathon, this will be my 'do-over'! Fingers crossed for better weather in 2018!

 

[GollyGadget]

So much work! And what I really need to do is pin down the rest of my accommodation for my May England trip.

Haha. I'm in the same boat. My husband has been giving me a hard time about all my Disney planning when I haven't finished planning our Italy/Greece trip at the end of May. Oh well... We'll figure it out.

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

Woohoo! Confirmed at SSR through dvc rental store. My brother and family are also confirmed through DVC proper. They're doing a 'Family Dopey': 1 nephew doing the 5k, brother doing the half, other nephew doing the full. Not sure who's doing the 10k. This is great, as I'll have company every morning. My mom is coming too, so it should be a great family week!

Next up: fretting about ADRs!

 

[Simba's Girl]

Just putting a little post here because...I'm at 666 messages and I want to get off of that number

I got myself wondering about training in the cold weather with an 11YO who technically can't use the TM at the Y yet....maybe I'll ask them to make an exception.