Marathon Weekend 2022

[lhermiston]

From the BAA website. "The virtual Boston Marathon will be held October 8-10, 2021. Participants may run their 26.2 miles anytime and anywhere during the October 8-10, 2021 race window to earn their finisher medal."

Anyone who got into Chicago will have the unique opportunity to complete two majors simultaneously.

 

[PaDisneyCouple]

SAFD (delayed):

Here is our favorite Disney souvenir.



The story:
Our 10th anniversary cruise in 2007 was our first-ever 7-night. We'd joined the DCL DIS meets thread. This was the first time we really got engaged with fellow DISers for a vacation. Ended up sitting with several families of them during first seating dinner. @pjpoohbear really knew her stuff, and told the gang that Donald "Ducky" Williams would be on the cruise. We had no idea who that was, and learned a little about him prior to embarking. This sparked our interest in attending his presentation in the theater early in the sailing. Ducky spent an hour with his back to the audience, telling us his life story and how he came to be the Senior Character Illustrator for the Walt Disney Company.
He had a large pad of paper, an easel, and a pencil. About every 3-4 minutes (I timed him) he'd flip the page and just keep drawing. To our surprise, at the end of the story, he announced that there would be a raffle to give away all of the drawings he made in the hour (about 20 I recall). We were each given a ticket upon entering the theater, but didn't know what they were for at the time. The scream of joy from DW when her number was called caught Ducky's attention for its enthusiasm. He happily sat for photos with anyone who wanted afterwards. We bought a protective tube in the store to protect DW's prize, and she carried it close the whole way back to Pa.
Today it hangs prominently in the family room where you can see it coming up the hallway from the front door. Ironically, it was just a few months later that Pluto got company...Max came home.

 

[1GoldenSun]

I log on here every day to see if there's news about registration. Still nothing!

At this point I'm in whether it's in-person or virtual. I'm training, I've got my resort reservations, and I'll go run it "virtually" AT Disney if I have to.

 

[Krandor]

I log on here every day to see if there's news about registration. Still nothing!

At this point I'm in whether it's in-person or virtual. I'm training, I've got my resort reservations, and I'll go run it "virtually" AT Disney if I have to.

An unfortunately when we do have news on registration there is no way to update the stickies. :-(

 

[1GoldenSun]

An unfortunately when we do have news on registration there is no way to update the stickies. :-(

Well I fully expect this thread to be all abuzz when the news does finally come!

 

[meye1099]

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[Herding_Cats]

Late to the party here. Favorite Disney souvenir for a couple of reasons. This trip was 1 week with almost all of DH’s family, so there were 24 of us (and that’s where the username comes from because I needed help coordinating for basically 5 families) and 1 week on our own, with our first ever on-site stay after DH’s family left. It was so much fun and we definitely were Disney’ed-out by the end. The weather got SUPER cold the 2nd week (also the first time I saw anything about races because some guy in a very elaborate Gaston costume was headed back to his room when we were going to get breakfast) and the pools were closed the entire time and we had NOT packed for 30s because they had forecast 50s as the coldest before we left.

Anyhow, here we are freezing in front of the castle, and my favorite thing is that DS3 was a willing/enthusiastic participant to get as many character/princess autographs as we could on the trip. And we got a LOT.

 

[Rogue224]

I'm a couple weeks behind on the SAFD. Fortunately, the last two are tied together. My favorite Disney pics are also my favorite souvenirs. I have a lot of runDisney souvenirs (shirts/pins/magnets/bibs/Tervis mugs/coffee cup), but they are second to the all the pictures we get. Here are a couple of them. 2017 W&D 5K; Halloween Party pic with Gravediggers; Mickey pic where he autographed his bday cover on Life magazine; and my first W&D challenge half marathon pic with the Country Bears.

 

[NewYKRunner]

It looks like we lost some posts?

SAFD (as per my email notification).

Splash mountain I went on as a kid my first time to Disneyland. Interesting Fact: Rodney king riot broke out our second last day.....

The last two times we've gone with our kids Splash mountain was closed for maintenance. From what I remember as a kid it was great, the pictures still shows up occasionally.

Space mountain I don't really remember for some reason.

Big Thunder Mountain was our favourite at Disneyland January 2015. Our older daughter, now 10, went on it so many times. When we went to Disneyworld January 2019 it didn't seem as exciting?

Everest however was awesome! Probably our favourite (mine and our now 10 year old). My wife stayed at the hotel with our (now) 6 year old that day who randomly spiked a fever Monday after the Dopey. So it offered my wife a good recovery day, but then she later learned about Medal Monday - whoops. A solid nap and our 6 year old was 95%. She needed another nap Tuesday afternoon when we were at Universal but was 100% after that.

 

[Krandor]

It looks like we lost some posts?

SAFD (as per my email notification).

Splash mountain I went on as a kid my first time to Disneyland. Interesting Fact: Rodney king riot broke out our second last day.....)

The last two times we've gone with our kids Splash mountain was closed for maintenance. From what I remember as a kid it was great, the pictures still shows up occasionally.

Space mountain I don't really remember for some reason.

Big Thunder Mountain was our favourite at Disneyland January 2015. Our older daughter, now 10, went on it so many times. When we went to Disneyworld January 2019 it didn't seem as exciting?

Everest however was awesome! Probably our favourite (mine and our now 10 year old). My wife stayed at the hotel with our (now) 6 year old that day who randomly spiked a fever Monday after the Dopey. So it offered my wife a good recovery day, but then she later learned about Medal Monday - whoops. A solid nap and our 6 year old was 95%. She needed another nap Tuesday afternoon when we were at Universal but was 100% after that.

Site got hacked around 5:30pm EDT last night. Looks like they restored from a 4:00am-4:30am EDT backup. So anything posted after around 4am or so yesturday is lost.

 

[MissLiss279]

Yeah, we lost some posts...

SAFD: Big Thunder Mountain is my favorite, followed closely by Everest.
WDW space mountain is towards the bottom of the list of rides I ride. I will occasionally, but then get shaken to death and remember why I don’t ride it.
When I was at DL several years ago, I remember riding Space there, and really liking that version!

@Krandor I wondered if the site was hacked...

 

[NewYKRunner]

Site got hacked around 5:30pm EDT last night. Looks like they restored from a 4:00am-4:30am EDT backup. So anything posted after around 4am or so yesturday is lost.

That's unfortunate. I saw it was down for emergency maintenance.

 

[Krandor]

That's unfortunate. I saw it was down for emergency maintenance.

that appears to be their "restore from backup" time.

 

[Krandor]

Yeah, we lost some posts...

SAFD: Big Thunder Mountain is my favorite, followed closely by Everest.
WDW space mountain is towards the bottom of the list of rides I ride. I will occasionally, but then get shaken to death and remember why I don’t ride it.
When I was at DL several years ago, I remember riding Space there, and really liking that version!

@Krandor I wondered if the site was hacked...

I logged in during the time and the hacker had a note up wanting $1500. Looks like they restored vs paying.

 

[pluto377]

SAFD- hands down Everest. I could ride it over and over and over. I like to do just that via the single rider line on my solo trips. I do love Splash too and I'm really excited to see the re-theme.

 

[GBRforWDW]

I logged in during the time and the hacker had a note up wanting $1500. Looks like they restored vs paying.

Lol, I’m not sure that price is worth the risk. Crazy people.

 

[Krandor]

So to add to the MW side of things... I do hope the announcement today or just virtual series is a sign in person races may be coming back soon so they want to get signups for the virtual races before they announce the in-person return.

The thing we need to watch out for is virtual was announced with 2 days before registration day So we may need to watch out for short notice between announcement and registration if in-person does return.

 

[lhermiston]

For those who missed it, this week's SAFD is the battle of the mountains: Splash, Space, Big Thunder and Everest.

 

[Krandor]

For those who missed it, this week's SAFD is the battle of the mountains: Splash, Space, Big Thunder and Everest.

SAFD : Space. One of the first coasters I rode and still love it. The darkness aspect and not knowing what is coming makes such a difference. Saw it a few times on peoplemover with lights on and doesn't look near the same. The darkness element makes the ride.

Now I will add the anaheim Hyperspace Mountain was AMAZING. That was an amazing overlay and had a great little surprise at the end.

 

[JAMIESMITH]

SAFD: This is easy. Everest is my favorite rode at Disney.