Marathon Weekend 2022

[Bunkie1979]

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Do you happen to know if it is a Marathon Weekend jacket, or a Dopey jacket, or maybe they have both? Thanks!

 

[Chasing Dopey]

Do you happen to know if it is a Marathon Weekend jacket, or a Dopey jacket, or maybe they have both? Thanks!

In the past, there is a pre-order race jacket celebrating the whole weekend, and it doesn't specify a specific race. At the race merchandise area there will be items for the individual races, which may include a jacket, or pull over, of dubious quality. (If it's got a good design, expect it to sell out early, and show up at triple the price on eBay.)

 

[Outonarun]

Do you happen to know if it is a Marathon Weekend jacket, or a Dopey jacket, or maybe they have both? Thanks!

The item available when registering is called "Weekend Jacket."

 

[Disney at Heart]

Perfectly Goofy DH registered for #17 today. That means we can both be on computers/ phones under my account next Tuesday to register me. I’m not really sure I can do another marathon, but I’ll try for Goofy so I can run with him. Like several others, I’ve got no chance of POT, so I no longer will worry about that.

 

[anneeb]

In the past, there is a pre-order race jacket celebrating the whole weekend, and it doesn't specify a specific race. At the race merchandise area there will be items for the individual races, which may include a jacket, or pull over, of dubious quality. (If it's got a good design, expect it to sell out early, and show up at triple the price on eBay.)

Do they have the general race weekend jacket at the expo too or is it just pre-order? I'm interested in a weekend jacket but it's hard to justify buying without seeing it first.

 

[DopeyBadger]

Thank you for the confirmation. Looks like I better wrap my brain around pulling off a 1:53:44 in my next Half! Speed work, here I come!

You've got this! I'd say with limited time until the cutoff (Sept 30th) you can go one of two ways with training.

1) If you can currently run a mile in under 7:20, then focus on pacing in and around HM Tempo. Something like a over/under workout can really be fruitful on a short time frame. But it's a really challenging workout. Something like 400m at HM Tempo + 400m at 2% faster than Lactate Threshold as repeats. This floods your legs with fatigue by products and since you don't allow actual resting intervals you're forcing your body to clear fatigue at pace. Do no more than 20 consecutive min or 4 miles of this type of workout (whichever comes first).

2) If you can't currently run a mile under 7:20, then work on pacing between mile to 5k pace. Because it would suggest you lack the prerequisite speed to go sub 1:54. Something like reps at 3k pace can really be fruitful. Check out Daniels VDOT calculator for I pace, and then do reps of 2-5 min with equal (or -1 min) resting intervals. Do no more than 20 total min of I pace in a single workout.

 

[PrincessV]

Enabling Opportunity here!

I'm torn... part of me thinks I'm kind of over the 5K and 10K, and I've never done Goofy as a stand-alone, so maybe I should go that route. But part of me also thinks if ever there was a year to do all 4 races with Dopey, this might be it, between the 50th anniversary and first MW back after the pandemic. I guess I need to decide pretty soon, so.... GO!

 

[Livelovedance]

Enabling Opportunity here!

I'm torn... part of me thinks I'm kind of over the 5K and 10K, and I've never done Goofy as a stand-alone, so maybe I should go that route. But part of me also thinks if ever there was a year to do all 4 races with Dopey, this might be it, between the 50th anniversary and first MW back after the pandemic. I guess I need to decide pretty soon, so.... GO!

Tough decision! I can see both options being good ones. This year would be a great year to do Dopey and celebrate a comeback to live runDisney races! I think you’ll get a decent amount of replies to go for Dopey if you feel you’re trained for it, so I’ll give a reason to possibly wait.

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think 2023 is a Dopey anniversary year. The WDW 50th anniversary celebration is 18 months, so the parks will be celebrating the 50th for both the 2022 and 2023 Marathon weekends. You could do Goofy this year, and then celebrate the 50th anniversary and the Dopey anniversary at the same time!

 

[MissLiss279]

Enabling Opportunity here!

I'm torn... part of me thinks I'm kind of over the 5K and 10K, and I've never done Goofy as a stand-alone, so maybe I should go that route. But part of me also thinks if ever there was a year to do all 4 races with Dopey, this might be it, between the 50th anniversary and first MW back after the pandemic. I guess I need to decide pretty soon, so.... GO!

So the first year of the SW races I decided to ‘just’ run the challenge - no 5k. It saved me a day of vacation. Did I really need to run the 5k??
But then when I got there, I was really missing running it. I think when the weekend gets closer, you will want to run all the races, because there will be a lot of excitement for the weekend - and you will just want to get it started earlier….

 

[The Expert]

Enabling Opportunity here!

I'm torn... part of me thinks I'm kind of over the 5K and 10K, and I've never done Goofy as a stand-alone, so maybe I should go that route. But part of me also thinks if ever there was a year to do all 4 races with Dopey, this might be it, between the 50th anniversary and first MW back after the pandemic. I guess I need to decide pretty soon, so.... GO!

I was having a similar struggle. I did my first and only full at WDW in 2020, along with the 10K. My original plan was do try Dopey in 2021, with those two full marathons being my only ones. Well, thanks to the heat and the course cut, while I made it through my first full, it wasn't truly a test of what I could do and I want a do-over. So I shifted that plan to re-do the 10K and full in 2021 and Dopey in 2022. Then things went kablooey!

With everything that's happened, I am suddenly very conscious that we're simply not guaranteed anything, including our own ability to train and complete those races. So if I want to do it "someday", then someday may as well be right now. So I'm registering (fingers crossed) for Dopey on Tuesday.

 

[HangWithMerida]

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think 2023 is a Dopey anniversary year. The WDW 50th anniversary celebration is 18 months, so the parks will be celebrating the 50th for both the 2022 and 2023 Marathon weekends. You could do Goofy this year, and then celebrate the 50th anniversary and the Dopey anniversary at the same time!

Ok, now you’ve got me thinking. I hadn’t considered this. Maybe 2023 is the year I go for Dopey? Seems like maybe things are aligning. I’m already registered for a deferred local HM in January 2022 and I don’t know if I could be trained for it this year anyway. I was already kind of thinking of skipping my local race next year to do the MW 2023 and mulling on Dopey. I actually do think it would be a one and done event for me, so 2023 might be the perfect year to do it.

 

[Livelovedance]

With everything that's happened, I am suddenly very conscious that we're simply not guaranteed anything, including our own ability to train and complete those races. So if I want to do it "someday", then someday may as well be right now. So I'm registering (fingers crossed) for Dopey on Tuesday.

This is an excellent point! A huge lesson I’ve taken from this is that nothing is guaranteed. I’m taking the time to do more things that I want to do while I can do them.

Ok, now you’ve got me thinking. I hadn’t considered this. Maybe 2023 is the year I go for Dopey? Seems like maybe things are aligning. I’m already registered for a deferred local HM in January 2022 and I don’t know if I could be trained for it this year anyway. I was already kind of thinking of skipping my local race next year to do the MW 2023 and mulling on Dopey. I actually do think it would be a one and done event for me, so 2023 might be the perfect year to do it.

That’s my plan! Prior to covid I decided I wanted to run the marathon, but I wanted to make sure I had enough time to really train for it. My plan was (and still is today) to run the marathon in 2022, and Dopey in 2023. I decided I wanted to enjoy the experience of my first marathon on its own, and then take on the Dopey challenge afterwards so I’ll know I can complete a marathon before registering. I knew about the Dopey anniversary, I just didn’t realize until this morning that the 50th anniversary celebration would align at the same time. It sounds like a perfect opportunity!

 

[CP3uhoh]

The HM submission as a Marathon POT for cutoff is 1:53:45 per my correspondence with them.

and a sigh of relief as I got a PR of 1:49:26 in March. Will be interested to see how many people are in those first two corrals.

 

[DopeyBadger]

and a sigh of relief as I got a PR of 1:49:26 in March. Will be interested to see how many people are in those first two corrals.

I think 2018-2020 give us a pretty good idea.



12.9% of the field in 2018, 12.5% of the field in 2019, and 11.1% of the field in 2020 (for the marathon). That's 2053-3457 runners depending on the final field size. It's interesting to see that the % of the field is rather consistent despite the field going from nearly 27,000 down to 18,000. Although these three years show a slow slight decline of the top POT in the fields. The decline is sharper when you include data from 2014-2017.

In 2017, it was 13.0% of the field (spread in a different number of corrals, but using 4 hrs as cutoff) and 3059/23621 runners.
In 2015, it was 20.8% of the field (spread in a different number of corrals, but using 4 hrs as cutoff) and 5510/26852 runners.
In 2014, it was 20.9% of the field (spread in a different number of corrals, but using 4 hrs as cutoff) and 5533/26532 runners.

 

[SheHulk]

Anybody know why Chip & Dale are on the banner art for the weekend, but don't seem to be associated with any specific race?

 

[MissLiss279]

Anybody know why Chip & Dale are on the banner art for the weekend, but don't seem to be associated with any specific race?

Kids’ race/kids’ adventure or whatever it’s going to be???

 

[SheHulk]

Kids’ race/kids’ adventure or whatever it’s going to be???

Ooh good guess! And that would be cute!

 

[Spikester]

Looking at the Run Disney site, for the Virtual races, it has the themes on each race, with the pictures that were published earlier, but they aren't there on the in person races. I wonder if the themes will be different on the virtual ones than the in person ones.
ETA: on the 1/2 it says to join Donald and Daisy and on the full it says Mickey/Minnie and friends. nothing on the 10K or 5K. And the banner on the top is different. My sister is hoping for Chip and Dale.

 

[azrivest]

Looking at the Run Disney site, for the Virtual races, it has the themes on each race, with the pictures that were published earlier, but they aren't there on the in person races. I wonder if the themes will be different on the virtual ones than the in person ones.

Seems like it's going to be the same, re @DopeyBadger 's post from previously:

Medals

 

[The Expert]

Looking at the Run Disney site, for the Virtual races, it has the themes on each race, with the pictures that were published earlier, but they aren't there on the in person races. I wonder if the themes will be different on the virtual ones than the in person ones.
ETA: on the 1/2 it says to join Donald and Daisy and on the full it says Mickey/Minnie and friends. nothing on the 10K or 5K. And the banner on the top is different. My sister is hoping for Chip and Dale.

I doubt this, but it would certainly be an interesting way for rD to gauge how much the theme/character affects registration. If the in-person 10K ends up being C&D, I'll register for the virtual as well to get the Oswald swag. They could easily do a comparison of folks who register for the same distance both in-person and virtual (though the numbers might be small enough that it's hard to draw conclusions).