Marathon Weekend 2020

[courtneybeth]

World Majors series will be wrapped up in October which means I can get back to Disney races..... contemplating the Marathon as a victory lap to celebrate. Would love to do another Dopey but that's a LOT of 3am wake up calls and miles on legs. Let's see how I feel when the FOMO of this year wears off.

But yes, tentatively penciling myself in for something that weekend.

 

[Krandor]

I swear by Pop Century or Art of Animation if you’re on a budget and running is the centerpiece of your trip. Buses to expo are among the shortest ride and most frequent service. Buses to the start line are dedicated (one central stop only, no sharing with another hotel), and buses from the finish are also fast and frequent (though shared). I’ve been very happy with the ability to use both food courts as well.

The only reason I’d stay anywhere else would be to have a kitchen in my room, to take race weekend nutrition into my own hands.

I normally do pop and love it. And when the gondalas open will be nicer

 

[camaker]

World Majors series will be wrapped up in October which means I can get back to Disney races..... contemplating the Marathon as a victory lap to celebrate. Would love to do another Dopey but that's a LOT of 3am wake up calls and miles on legs. Let's see how I feel when the FOMO of this year wears off.

But yes, tentatively penciling myself in for something that weekend.

Hey there! A few of us were just discussing at DATW today that we hadn’t seen you on the boards for a while!

 

[michigandergirl]

The overall atmosphere and vibe of Marathon weekend is just magical to me.

Yes, totally agree. Love the energy of MW!!

I'll have to see how things shake out this year, but I'm hoping I can swing at least the marathon, maybe Goofy.

 

[JM735]

Well, I’m sitting here thinking of a way to amputate both my feet with a plastic knife and am convinced I’m never going to do any race ever again, so take that into account ...

This. Couldn’t have said it better. In fact I’ve used the words foot amputation multiple times in the last day.

Which is why you can't end it on this one.

However, this may have some validity....

I will be at Marathon Weekend 2020. After saying ‘no more marathons’ four times (including yesterday), these words don’t have a good track record. But I’m pretty confident it won’t be another Dopey. The four early mornings are awful and the 5k is not enjoyable for me. Maybe a goofy or maybe just the half. Or maybe just DATW.

 

[achang2001]

I swear by Pop Century or Art of Animation if you’re on a budget and running is the centerpiece of your trip. Buses to expo are among the shortest ride and most frequent service. Buses to the start line are dedicated (one central stop only, no sharing with another hotel), and buses from the finish are also fast and frequent (though shared). I’ve been very happy with the ability to use both food courts as well.

The only reason I’d stay anywhere else would be to have a kitchen in my room, to take race weekend nutrition into my own hands.

We always stay onsite for race weekend. We stayed at the Grand Floridian Villas in a 2BR. We had 4 runners in the 1/2 and one cheerleader! It was great. Our room was overlooking the wedding pavilion so she could just come down when we were close! Taking the monorail in the morning was nice. They had granola bars and bananas out for the runners on race morning. It was a nice touch.

 

[Disneycouple99]

Count me and the wife in. 10K for both and half for me.

 

[Z-Knight]

I normally do pop and love it. And when the gondalas open will be nicer

well, NO air conditioning, so likely a only usable during one week throughout the year - the rest of the time I will be King of the Bus!

 

[Baloo in MI]

On the conversation about where to stay, my vote also goes to Pop/AofA. I have also stayed at Port Orleans and Coronado in the past for Marathon Weekend. Both really nice stays but Pop/AoA was by far the most convienent, quick and easy. It is were I am planning to stay for 2020.

 

[DIS-OH]

We made the switch from Princess Half weekend to Marathon weekend in 2019 for a few reasons.

—Our APs expired Sunday of Marathon weekend. If we ran then instead of PHM, we wouldn’t need to renew our APs or buy park tix.

—DD wanted to run the Full.

—We’d run 9 PHMs, and decided Marathon Weekend would be a nice change for our 10th WDW runDisney event...a nice number to end our rD streak, a final hurrah, a goodbye celebration! We’d go out big, splurge on a GF stay and enjoy monorailing to the race and back.

So...on the way home from the airport DH started talking about next year...so we will likely be back in 2020!

 

[PCFriar80]

Tweedle Dumb challenge for me again. Why? Well the dumb part says it all. 10k and half are my threshold. Plus I simply enjoy the atmosphere of marathon weekend, the training ups and downs, weather predictions, medal previews, shirt colors...... see you next year.

 

[pluto377]

My DH says he wants to get back into running again this year after seeing me complete Dopey. So we may be in for 10k and/or 5k. Definitely not the longer races.

 

[CDKG]

I had such an amazing time this weekend! It was a wonderful return to runDisney after the cancellation of the DL races. With no return of those in site, it looks like I will be returning to marathon weekend in 2020!

Those two early morning wake ups really took a toll. So, I just don’t think Dopey is for me. I’m leaning towards the 10k and full next year. Let’s start praying to the weather gods now!

 

[AFwifelife]

I’ll be doing Dopey again and possibly DH depending on work and injury. Staying off property was sooooo awesome so definitely doing that again.

 

[Neon Cactus]

I'm in, and probably for Dopey next year. I talked my friend who doesn't run into doing the 10k. Keels refreshment stop was what did it, another reason why she can't swear off RunDisney next year!

 

[lahobbs4]

I will be there!! And i've brainwashed some friends to come with me. Not sure on Dopey ever again because mine went so well this year and I would hate to have anything other than those happy memories. But FOMO, so....

Hoping for the 10K and full. Those early mornings can SUCK IT.

 

[sandam1]

Where would you recommend staying for Marathon Weekend? As a total WDW newbie I'm pretty clueless. At DL we usually stay offsite across the street.

We stayed off-site (at Universal), got a rental car, and it was FABULOUS not having to deal with/worry about relying on Disney transportation. Keep in mind that I am the queen of catastrophic Disney transportation failures so I am always wary (at best) of it. We left our hotel for the 5K at 3:45 a.m. and for the half at 3:30 a.m., hit NO traffic issues, and had a warm car where we could relax until we needed to head to the start line. At the end, there was no line for transportation, a comfortable seat, and a bag with all of my post-race stuff (change of clothes, fuel, massage stick, etc.) waiting for me. I know that there are A LOT of people that favor staying on-site, but I had a great experience staying off-site.

 

[sandam1]

About two weeks before this year's race (my first ever half), I said "one and done!"

Afterwards, well, my friend is talking about doing the 5K and 10K (she just did the 5K this year) and I might be convinced to try the 5K and 10K with her and then maybe do the half again. I admire the heck out of all of the Dopey finishers, but I have no desire to put the time and effort into training for a full marathon.

 

[huggybuff]

I know that there are A LOT of people that favor staying on-site, but I had a great experience staying off-site.

That's great to hear. If I'm lucky enough to do MW 2020 then I plan to stay off-site too and rent a car. Mostly just for the money aspect. I can't believe how cheap some of those off-site hotels were a few weeks out from MW on Hotel Tonight. Of course, it's likely moot for me anyway. The only coworker who has seniority over me in our vacation bidding process has already been granted MW off. Of alllll the weeks out of the year, she picks MW. My only hope is that she takes a new position at some point this year. Is that mean?

 

[pinkxray]

I’m hoping to try for the full in 2020. Health issues caused me to miss the Wine and Dine half this year so we’ll see how it goes.
Between Dh and I working full time and us both working some weekends I’ll need to take a few days off throughout the summer/fall to do my long runs. I have to submit my request for those days off this month so I just mapped out my running plans for almost the next year.