Marathon Weekend 2022

[camaker]

Thoughts on Caribbean Beach vs POFQ? I figured that the Skyliner would be a nice perk

For me, the Skyliner took CBR from being the least appealing moderate to one of my favorites. It took me 5-10 minutes to get from my room to the gates of DHS and not much longer than that to get to the Epcot IG. That convenience makes up for a lot of the shortcomings of the resort in my book. For what it’s worth, too, I was very leery of the Skyliner concept at first, having a significant fear of heights. Those fears turned out to be unfounded, as I find the Skyliner to be one of my favorite ways to get around WDW.

 

[Barca33Runner]

CBR is a bit of a sprawl. There is a decent chance that you will not be particularly close to one or more of the Skyliner, pool, lobby, or dining options. That could remove some of the benefits of the Skyliner. POFQ is more compact but, obviously, doesn’t have the Skyliner at all. There are tradeoffs to every resort, just have to figure out which one suits you.

I’ve always had a good time regardless of resort. Each of them has their own charm.

 

[camaker]

CBR is a bit of a sprawl. There is a decent chance that you will not be particularly close to one or more of the Skyliner, pool, lobby, or dining options. That could remove some of the benefits of the Skyliner. POFQ is more compact but, obviously, doesn’t have the Skyliner at all. There are tradeoffs to every resort, just have to figure out which one suits you.

I’ve always had a good time regardless of resort. Each of them has their own charm.

On the trade offs front, what I’ve found to be successful is to prioritize what’s important to you in the resort, whether that be Skyliner access, bus access, food court proximity or something else entirely. Then request to be placed in a building that suits your priority. Of course, building requests are never guaranteed, but my experience has been that if you ask to be placed in Building x or y (or even z, if there’s a 3rd that meets your requirements) you’re pretty likely to get it.

 

[GreatLakes]

CBR is a bit of a sprawl. There is a decent chance that you will not be particularly close to one or more of the Skyliner, pool, lobby, or dining options. That could remove some of the benefits of the Skyliner. POFQ is more compact but, obviously, doesn’t have the Skyliner at all. There are tradeoffs to every resort, just have to figure out which one suits you.

I’ve always had a good time regardless of resort. Each of them has their own charm.

Exactly. I have friends that love CBR, it just wasn't for me. We had our hearts set on POFQ for a few reasons:

• It is the only moderate I haven't stayed in and we wanted to stay somewhere new
• Having the surrey bikes and carriage rides were a nice plus for our non-park days
• The theme
• The river walk for our son to run off energy

We are only doing two park days and will be doing some other stuff both around property and off for some of the days so we are going to have a car either way making the Disney transportation less of an issue for us even if I can talk my wife into trying the skyliner.

 

[The Expert]

This is great news! I am sure the Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM) will be happening again in 2022 in one form or another.

What is the pacing requirement for GTRRP?! I'm hoping to do my first Dopey, will be running all four races alone, and would love to find a group to hang with but I AM SLOW! Like 11-13 minute miles at best. If that's going to hold up the Troop, I'm happy to create the inaugural Slow-Moving Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM) for anyone else who can't keep up.

I had a dream about trying to get registered last night. And nothing but dopey was available and I was SO SAD because dh can’t take that many days off from work for me to run.

I had an rD registration dream last night too! I slept in and forgot about registration, but when I told my husband he said "oh I heard on the news hardly anyone signed up yet" LOL - as if that would be on the news?! So I RAN to the computer and sure enough, I could log right on and register. I'm really hoping that's more of a premonition than a hopeful dream.

 

[avondale]

What is the pacing requirement for GTRRP?! I'm hoping to do my first Dopey, will be running all four races alone, and would love to find a group to hang with but I AM SLOW! Like 11-13 minute miles at best. If that's going to hold up the Troop, I'm happy to create the inaugural Slow-Moving Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM) for anyone else who can't keep up.

I would echo this question and comment.

 

[Herding_Cats]

I will fully participate in a slow moving good troop party if I manage to snag a bib and get all of my other ducks in a row.

 

[cburnett11]

SAFD: Illuminations with a special mention of Spectromagic

 

[lhermiston]

However, over the years, reading the race reports posted here and hearing all the excitement about the marathon during Marathon Weekend, I am now revising my mantra to be "never again will I run a marathon... for time." Please tell me that The Goof Troop Roving Road Party will be active again for the 2022 marathon (@lhermiston? @FFigawi?)!

This is great news! I am sure the Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM) will be happening again in 2022 in one form or another.

We couldn’t stop the Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM) even if we wanted to. It’s become a perpetual motion machine. A self-sustaining beast fueled by sweat, alcohol and the souls of lesser runners. John and I created a monster and are helpless to stop it. You don’t join the Roving Road Party; it joins you.

The next three weeks will be key to my continued involvement in the Goof Troop, particularly next week. If you are so inclined, send some positive thoughts my way (or don’t. This is not a health matter or anything serious.)

If things fall into place, the GTRRP will be back. It will be bigger. It will be better. And someone at runDisney will lose their job for even allowing us on the course. I guarantee it.

 

[anneeb]

I've had my Bay Lake DVC reservation since the 7 month mark. At the time I made the reservation I was just planning on the half in 2022 and waiting to do Dopey again in 2023. But now that I've gotten caught up in the excitement I'm leaning towards Dopey 2022 (it's been a couple years since my last marsthon so still a little wary). The catch is my arrival date isn't until Thursday and of course there is now no availability at BLT for Wednesday. I can still get Old Key West, Saratoga, or AKL. From a transportation perspective which would be the best to choose to most easily get to the 5K, then move to Bay Lake later that day?

 

[GreatLakes]

I've had my Bay Lake DVC reservation since the 7 month mark. At the time I made the reservation I was just planning on the half in 2022 and waiting to do Dopey again in 2023. But now that I've gotten caught up in the excitement I'm leaning towards Dopey 2022 (it's been a couple years since my last marsthon so still a little wary). The catch is my arrival date isn't until Thursday and of course there is now no availability at BLT for Wednesday. I can still get Old Key West, Saratoga, or AKL. From a transportation perspective which would be the best to choose to most easily get to the 5K, then move to Bay Lake later that day?

Unless they make some new announcement about race transportation all of them will have race transportation. I'm not sure any of them are better than any other, since we don't even know where the 5K will be that weekend, so I'd go with the one you want to stay in the most. AKL is likely going to be the furthest from the 5K unless it happens to be at Animal Kingdom which at best is 25%.

 

[Disney at Heart]

Ok. All you people who are just now considering registering for races this year, JUST DON’T DO IT. Also, please spread the “JUST DON’T DO IT” message around on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tik Tok, Snap Chat, group emails and text messages, and whatever media you have access to. Then I’ll have a better chance of getting bibs for the races I want!

 

[DopeyBadger]

Ok. All you people who are just now considering registering for races this year, JUST DON’T DO IT. Also, please spread the “JUST DON’T DO IT” message around on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tik Tok, Snap Chat, group emails and text messages, and whatever media you have access to. Then I’ll have a better chance of getting bibs for the races I want!

I was on the fence about it, but this has convinced me. I won't sign up now.

 

[The Expert]

I've had my Bay Lake DVC reservation since the 7 month mark. At the time I made the reservation I was just planning on the half in 2022 and waiting to do Dopey again in 2023. But now that I've gotten caught up in the excitement I'm leaning towards Dopey 2022 (it's been a couple years since my last marsthon so still a little wary). The catch is my arrival date isn't until Thursday and of course there is now no availability at BLT for Wednesday. I can still get Old Key West, Saratoga, or AKL. From a transportation perspective which would be the best to choose to most easily get to the 5K, then move to Bay Lake later that day?

I made mine at 11 months for BWV, assuming I'd do the 10K and Full. When I decided to go for Dopey, I was able to add on a standard studio at GF on to the front. All resorts should have transportation if there aren't major changes, but some resorts do share buses (ie BWV usually shares with the other resorts around the Boardwalk area) and larger resorts have multiple stops. If you're on the end of a loop you could risk buses being full when they get to you. For that reason, I'd probably go for AK as the bus should only be shared between Jambo and Kidani.

 

[::danielle::]

What is the pacing requirement for GTRRP?! I'm hoping to do my first Dopey, will be running all four races alone, and would love to find a group to hang with but I AM SLOW! Like 11-13 minute miles at best. If that's going to hold up the Troop, I'm happy to create the inaugural Slow-Moving Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM) for anyone else who can't keep up.

I absolutely want to be a part of this!

 

[The Expert]

I'm excited there is so much interest in the Slow-Moving Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM)! Let's see where everyone ends up corralled. I'd love to do a joint pre-race meetup for each distance and maybe even start together, if placements allow.

 

[pluto377]

I'm interested in the Goof Troop too! But I'm super mega slow, so I'm not sure I could keep up.

 

[UK_Disney_Dopey_Hopeful]

I'm excited there is so much interest in the Slow-Moving Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM)! Let's see where everyone ends up corralled. I'd love to do a joint pre-race meetup for each distance and maybe even start together, if placements allow.

i would love to meet up with a group of fellow runners. IF i get a place im coming from the UK and sadly my family cant join me due to work/school commitments, so id love to meet up and perhaps join in for post race drinks/snacks and pre race meet-up

 

[Kerry1957]

I'm excited there is so much interest in the Slow-Moving Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM)! Let's see where everyone ends up corralled. I'd love to do a joint pre-race meetup for each distance and maybe even start together, if placements allow.

It might make sense to have two versions of the Goof Troop Roving Road Party (TM). Last year I had GTRRP envy as I started in the last POT corral and could not catch up with the group. That was absolutely fine with me though, as I didn't expect them to slow down to accommodate middle and back of the packers. I agree that we see how it all shakes out once folks are registered and we have a sense of the numbers by projected/actual corral.

Edit to add that @DopeyBadger has made a fantastic spreadsheet for recent marathons where he tracks all of us who want to enter our corral placement and anticipated pace. He then is able to estimate the time we will pass certain landmarks. Based on his data, I was able to time my run so that I arrived at Expedition Everest right after it opened and met my daughter for a ride. The spreadsheet will also allow us to see natural groupings of runners to hang together if they want to.

 

[SheHulk]

I'm pretty settled on the idea that I'm just going to run the half at Marathon Weekend this year. 2022 is an anniversary year for the half right? Wasn't 2017 the 20th? Hoping for a Donald/Daisy spinner like the Mickey/Minnie spinner on the marathon medal from a few years back.