Marathon Weekend 2019

[Ariel484]

Have fun and good luck this weekend, everyone! Please post TONS of pictures so the rest of us can live vicariously through you!

 

[rteetz]

 

[hotblooded]

I’m on DME, en route to Pop Century!

 

[TheHamm]

Sitting here at work reading all the "I'm here" stories is driving me nuts! I've got today and a half day tomorrow still to go. Fly in Thursday evening and hit the Expo first thing Friday morning. It can't get here soon enough!

Same.
I am sitting in a meeting trying to convince DH to take the hit and change the flights to Thursday AM, not PM. What is another $100 in change fees?

 

[LdyStormy76]

Expo merchandise is pretty much what we already saw. All of the jackets and the few long sleeve shirts have that thumb hole in the sleeve.

 

[Barca33Runner]

Landed and ready to party!

I’d always heard that pandas are real party animals.

 

[camaker]

Landed and ready to party!

#Pandamonium2019 is on deck!

Exclusive preview of @rteetz pre-race meal:

 

[Ariel484]

For a second there I thought that the 22K figure for the half marathon didn't include the Goofy/Dopey runners...yikes! Still a lot of freaking runners in that race though!

 

[lhermiston]

In and out of the expo in 15 minutes. Skipped merch in favor of getting over to AK.

 

[DustyWA]

We made it last night. Was visiting family in CT and got a little nervous about light snow and rush hour in Boston causing problems with making our flight, so we did the drive from Hartford area really early. No issues and now standing in line to look at merch while family is heading over to Epcot. Excited to get this weekend going!

 

[pluto377]

On DME waiting to leave to the airport for akl! Security at isp this morning was crazy! I’ve never seen a line like that there. But it moved fast and I didn’t have to sit at my gate before boarding.

Excited to arrive at the resort, grab some lunch, and head to the expo!

 

[CDKG]

I wasn’t very impressed by the official runDisney merchandise. (But, don’t worry... I still managed to spend plenty of money.) There were not a lot of women’s specific clothing items (shirts and jackets). The only clothing item I ended up purchasing was the AP shirt. It is unisex, but I liked the retro design with the ribbing around the neck and sleeves. I sized up in both that shirt and the 5k cotton shirt (it has zero stretch).

I took my time looking at everything and was in/out in about 90 minutes.

 

[JeffW]

We arrived yesterday, and so far, park crowds have been quite a bit better than last year. We were at MK last night and DHS this morning.

 

[camaker]

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What I find most interesting about this graphic is that with all the talk recently of "Dopey is the preferred challenge" and "why bother with Goofy" there are significantly more Goofy runners than Dopey. Perhaps the rumors of Goofy's demise have been overstated!

 

[Ariel484]

I wasn’t very impressed by the official runDisney merchandise. (But, don’t worry... I still managed to spend plenty of money.) There were not a lot of women’s specific clothing items (shirts and jackets). The only clothing item I ended up purchasing was the AP shirt. It is unisex, but I liked the retro design with the ribbing around the neck and sleeves. I sized up in both that shirt and the 5k cotton shirt (it has zero stretch).

I took my time looking at everything and was in/out in about 90 minutes.

This drives me nuts about runDisney. That graphic that @rteetz posted says 59% of the marathon participants are women, yet they cannot offer a good selection of women's cut stuff. Sigh. At least they mostly have women's cut race shirts (any time you want to offer that option for the 5Ks Disney, you just go ahead and do it).

 

[rteetz]

What I find most interesting about this graphic is that with all the talk recently of "Dopey is the preferred challenge" and "why bother with Goofy" there are significantly more Goofy runners than Dopey. Perhaps the rumors of Goofy's demise have been overstated!

Actually the goofy number includes Dopey.

 

[gjramsey]

Actually the goofy number includes Dopey.

@rteetz. That is what I was going to guess, otherwise, there are ~1200 "just" doing the marathon, which seemed really low to me.

 

[jhoannam]

It's so exciting reading everyone's updates! I don't get in until Saturday morning and then we're going straight to the expo. I will live vicariously through all of you for now.

We don’t get in until Friday night, I’m so jealous of everyone there. But I knew that if we got there too soon I would over do it at the parks.

 

[CDKG]

This drives me nuts about runDisney. That graphic that @rteetz posted says 59% of the marathon participants are women, yet they cannot offer a good selection of women's cut stuff. Sigh. At least they mostly have women's cut race shirts (any time you want to offer that option for the 5Ks Disney, you just go ahead and do it).

Tinker Bell always had great women’s merchandise. That just wasn’t the case today.

As a side note, the quality of the clothing items (jackets and pullovers especially) just didn’t match the price. Everything is very thin and not that flattering. Again, I still spent plenty of money and this is just my opinion.

 

[dburg30]

I wasn’t very impressed by the official runDisney merchandise. (But, don’t worry... I still managed to spend plenty of money.) There were not a lot of women’s specific clothing items (shirts and jackets). The only clothing item I ended up purchasing was the AP shirt. It is unisex, but I liked the retro design with the ribbing around the neck and sleeves. I sized up in both that shirt and the 5k cotton shirt (it has zero stretch).

I took my time looking at everything and was in/out in about 90 minutes.

I've never been impressed with the RD merch honestly. And I really wish some of the race shirts that you get werent long sleeve...