Marathon Weekend 2022

[meye1099]

SAFD: It was hard to pick my favorite Disney photos, but here they are...

I love this photo caught of me riding Splash Mountain with my best friend!!



This is me on a behind-the-scenes diving excursion in Epcot to surprise my girlfriend à la Love Actually. So much fun! (The sign was my best friend's idea!)



This is me getting back together with my girlfriend. ❤ It was the best trip! So magical! (My best friend was hiding in the bushes to capture this moment!)

 

[PrincessV]

The 10k and the full use the boardwalk loop. The half typically doesn't. In fact the half normally doesn't even do world showcase. You come in one side of the park, past SSE then back out. One year IIRC you did loop up to world showcase entrace and then back down.

Yep, you're right - my mind was picturing the 10K and full. I don't think there's any resort particularly great for spectating the 10K and half.

 

[Krandor]

Yep, you're right - my mind was picturing the 10K and full. I don't think there's any resort particularly great for spectating the 10K and half.

It is easy to get the courses mixed up. They are simaliar... but not.

I think boardwalk is best for 10k and I'd say either start/finish or MK for half. But yeah you are going to have to travel for one. Can always hit race transportation to start line area and then monorail over to MK area for the hallf. Probably about the best way to do it without driiving/uber and even then would still need to go to start/finish area. There are not really a lot of good spectator places I can think of between MK and epcot for the half.

 

[PrincessV]

It is easy to get the courses mixed up. They are simaliar... but not.

I think boardwalk is best for 10k and I'd say either start/finish or MK for half. But yeah you are going to have to travel for one. Can always hit race transportation to start line area and then monorail over to MK area for the hallf. Probably about the best way to do it without driiving/uber and even then would still need to go to start/finish area. There are not really a lot of good spectator places I can think of between MK and epcot for the half.

Yep, totally agree. Outside the Poly/GF is nice for half spectating, but they'd have to travel for the 10K. I have used my car to drive to a BW resort to spectate, but that was Before Times, and particularly before they started limiting spectating - I wouldn't count on that being an option going forward.

 

[iamsarahpotts]

I don't have any runDisney pictures - so these are just plain old trip photos!

This was at Epcot on my Mom's 60th birthday - right before Covid shut everything down! It was so fun to go to WDW and celebrate with her!



My husband and I always do ridiculous poses for ride photos. I guess it's kind of hard to tell, but he has my Minnie ears on and just looks silly while I look insane.


30th Birthday with Mickey! I took a LOT of photos wearing those 30 glasses.


This is actually a rare, good picture of us - even if we're being basic at the purple wall! We were trying to take a selfie and a custodian walked by and offered to take our photo. We're usually by ourselves when we travel, so it's not often we get a cute picture because one of us is always taking the photo and not in it. The guy who took our photo was so nice and chatted with us for a few minutes. It's a good memory!


This is my little sister at AK and I love it because she is so cute.


Rafiki made my husband hold his sunglasses for the photo


I don't have many photos from when I was a kid saved digitally. This has made me realized I need to get on that!

 

[iamsarahpotts]

SAFD: It was hard to pick my favorite Disney photos, but here they are...

Hollywood should turn your love story into a weekly sitcom made for tweens to watch when they're binging TV on Friday nights! Or something.

 

[Marc A.]

For the first time in years Marathon 2022 lines up with the kids winter break and, if it goes, the four of us want to participate in some capacity.
I’m a Dopey 2020 participant who will need some intense training once I know it’s a go. This past year has been bad for running and weight gain. However we are booked already so our fingers and toes are crossed.

 

[jmasgat]

SAFD: From my very first trip to WDW--which was also the first for my daughter (then 3) and son (5 mos).I've always loved this picture.

 

[lahobbs4]

These pics are making me cry a little! I'm so ready to get back there, either for running or just for a vacation. Here are some of our favorites over the years:

Our first trip with our oldest. The characters would walk down MainStreet USA after the Welcome Show at the train station. Aladdin photobombed us but my son was still staring at Jasmine, who was with him!


The last year for the Osborne lights


Our daughter wouldn't look at the camera for the picture because she couldn't stop staring at Mickey Mouse!


And my first runDisney race: the 2017 cancelled half marathon that turned into a full marathon (with only 9 miles of training, yikes). If it weren't for this accidental race, I may never have had the courage to sign up for Dopey. SO worth it!

 

[FFigawi]

Our first trip with our oldest. The characters would walk down MainStreet USA after the Welcome Show at the train station. Aladdin photobombed us but my son was still staring at Jasmine, who was with him!
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[meye1099]

Hollywood should turn your love story into a weekly sitcom made for tweens to watch when they're binging TV on Friday nights! Or something.

Oh my, that is brilliant!

 

[Popo]

After the picture was taken, Eeyore would not let Ethan go. Actually held him for a couple minutes. When it came time to leave, Eeyore followed us out.

 

[Popo]

Delilah is absolutely enamored by Elsa.

 

[PrincessV]

Fangirling all over the Emperor never gets old. RIP Dark Side races.

 

[Dimickey]

Sorry to drop in but I'm a new user here. I have been reading this boards for some weeks now and your stories are really inspiring and making me dream even more about the Disney races.

My runDisney history: I started running with runDisney when Disneyland Paris introduced their own run weekend in 2016 since I'm European. Being a new runner, I did the 5K. Had so much fun and my motivation boosted. The year after, I signed in for the 31K Challenge (Half Marathon and 10K). It was my first halfmarathon at a running event which made me very emotional. Since then I returned every race weekend at Disneyland Paris to do the 36K Challenge (introduced since 2018). Loving the Paris races so much, something new appeared at my bucket list: the Castle to Chateau medal. I always heard it was difficult to enter the Disney World Marathon weekend so I tried to register whithout too many expectations but I was able to sign in for the half at Disney World in 2019. Do I have to say it was amazing? The atmosphere, the people, the organisation,... I was really amazed. I always said I would never do a marathon but then I was at Disney World a few days and saw many people with signs of the Dopey Challenge (like shirts etc), saw so many people run during the Half who also did the Dopey and even met some people doing the Dopey. It changed my mind... and at the end of my trip to Disney World I knew, if I ever run a marathon it's at Disney. Meanwhile I'm thinking: if I travel to Disney World, join the Marathon Weekend, run the Marathon - why not going all the way and go for Dopey.

So that's the summary of me and runDisney. Having done a lot of halfmarathons, training for a marathon and hoping to do Dopey in 2022

 

[lhermiston]

Sorry to drop in but I'm a new user here. I have been reading this boards for some weeks now and your stories are really inspiring and making me dream even more about the Disney races.

My runDisney history: I started running with runDisney when Disneyland Paris introduced their own run weekend in 2016 since I'm European. Being a new runner, I did the 5K. Had so much fun and my motivation boosted. The year after, I signed in for the 31K Challenge (Half Marathon and 10K). It was my first halfmarathon at a running event which made me very emotional. Since then I returned every race weekend at Disneyland Paris to do the 36K Challenge (introduced since 2018). Loving the Paris races so much, something new appeared at my bucket list: the Castle to Chateau medal. I always heard it was difficult to enter the Disney World Marathon weekend so I tried to register whithout too many expectations but I was able to sign in for the half at Disney World in 2019. Do I have to say it was amazing? The atmosphere, the people, the organisation,... I was really amazed. I always said I would never do a marathon but then I was at Disney World a few days and saw many people with signs of the Dopey Challenge (like shirts etc), saw so many people run during the Half who also did the Dopey and even met some people doing the Dopey. It changed my mind... and at the end of my trip to Disney World I knew, if I ever run a marathon it's at Disney. Meanwhile I'm thinking: if I travel to Disney World, join the Marathon Weekend, run the Marathon - why not going all the way and go for Dopey.

So that's the summary of me and runDisney. Having done a lot of halfmarathons, training for a marathon and hoping to do Dopey in 2022

Welcome!

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

Lurker checking in: not a race pic, not sure what year it is, may be the last time the whole family was there. That's me in the sunglasses. I always laugh that the boys and girls have sorted themselves, possibly based on stinky-ness.

 

[flav]

SAFD: So many favourite pictures... This one is from our last trip, and DD first 10k. I am realizing that the pictures I like most are always action shots. We need to stop posing.

 

[lhermiston]

Good morning, runDisney all-stars! Welcome to another round of Sundays are for Disney!

For this week’s Sundays are for Disney, what’s your favorite Disney keepsake, souvenir or piece of memorabilia? For this question, medals are not included.

Mine is probably my Monsters University hat. It’s actually my second. We went one trip and I looked for a hat, but they were sold out everywhere.

A couple years later, I got a MU hat as a departing gift from my coworkers when I switched jobs. I wore it during my 2019 trip, but then lost it on Splash Mountain (despite warnings from the CMs and my youngest daughter)!

Fortunately, the hats were much easier to find that trip and I picked up a replacement in the Splash Mountain gift shop. I now hold onto it a little tighter on the big drop.

Have a safe and healthy week, everyone!

 

[Barca33Runner]

SAFD:

This was by far the biggest purchase I’ve ever made at Disney but I wouldn’t have made it a f I didn’t like it so much. Earlier this year we made a quick trip to Festival of the Arts. I was looking for something to fill an empty wall and came home with this:

I got it as an unstretched canvas and brought it home and got it stretched and framed. The picture had added significance for me as my family had a similar (non-Disney related) painting when I was a kid. My brother, sister and I always believed it had hidden pictures and such (it didn’t) and we spent hours (cumulatively) looking over and trying to figure out it’s secrets (there weren’t any).

Anyway, this picture actually does have those things:

It’s already bringing the room together and I’m looking forward to years of bringing a little Disney into my life every day.