Marathon Weekend 2024

[camaker]

I was just talking with my DW. She's all in as much as she can be. Dopey+DL5k+Dumbo.

I'm never going to see a sunset again, am I?

Just think about all the extra sunrises you'll get to see instead!

 

[BikeFan]

They could have a special challenge medal.

It would supercede my Castle to Chateau medal as the most expensive piece of artwork I own.

You probably don't want to try for a Six-Star (World Marathon Majors) medal then! I'm not even going to add up what that one's cost me when I get it in March. I think I'm afraid of the answer!

 

[Zutroy]

You probably don't want to try for a Six-Star (World Marathon Majors) medal then! I'm not even going to add up what that one's cost me when I get it in March. I think I'm afraid of the answer!

Pffft, those are rookie numbers. It’s all about the World Marathon Challenge—7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, beginning in Antartica. I haven’t checked on flight costs to Novolazarevskaya, but I‘m sure they’re eminently reasonable. I find that that people crazier than me help to justify my own insane decisions.

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[Novatrix]

You probably don't want to try for a Six-Star (World Marathon Majors) medal then! I'm not even going to add up what that one's cost me when I get it in March. I think I'm afraid of the answer!

I'll hopefully be starting that journey this fall and will knock another one off the list next fall (depending on whether I decide to defer Berlin or Chicago.) Congrats to you and here's to the journey!

 

[RunWI1265]

Well I may need to make some decisions about my original plans of dopey to DL for C2C. I threw our names into a lottery for a spot at brooks lodge to see the bears in Alaska in 2024. And shockingly we got a spot. It’s a bucket list trip and…not cheap. I also turn 40 in 2024. I wanted to do big things to celebrate the milestone so I don’t totally want to write off C2C. Why is it that I’ve picked such expensive things to be my hobby?! Didn’t someone say running is a cheap hobby??

 

[sandam1]

Why is it that I’ve picked such expensive things to be my hobby?! Didn’t someone say running is a cheap hobby??

Running can be a cheap hobby. Running at Disney? Not so much!

 

[azrivest]

Didn’t someone say running is a cheap hobby??

My shoe closet says otherwise

 

[Naomeri]

My shoe closet says otherwise

My hoard of running clothes agrees with your shoe closet

 

[The Expert]

Pffft, those are rookie numbers. It’s all about the World Marathon Challenge—7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, beginning in Antartica. I haven’t checked on flight costs to Novolazarevskaya, but I‘m sure they’re eminently reasonable. I find that that people crazier than me help to justify my own insane decisions.

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This starts next week! rD veteran Michael (@runthesmallworld on IG) is doing it this year and he's been posting about his training. He left for the first destination yesterday.

 

[jofo]

You probably don't want to try for a Six-Star (World Marathon Majors) medal then! I'm not even going to add up what that one's cost me when I get it in March. I think I'm afraid of the answer!

Wishing I hadn't read this post and subsequently googled the medal, but I did, so now I have a brand new portal account and claimed my two stars.

 

[FFigawi]

Pffft, those are rookie numbers. It’s all about the World Marathon Challenge—7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, beginning in Antartica. I haven’t checked on flight costs to Novolazarevskaya, but I‘m sure they’re eminently reasonable. I find that that people crazier than me help to justify my own insane decisions.

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A friend of mine organized the first 7 on 7 in 7 several years ago. It’s far better to start in Australia and fly west because it gives you more rest.

 

[softballpooh]

My hoard of running clothes agrees with your shoe closet

I'll take your running clothes, shoe closet AND raise you my supplements, nutrition, and tape (to keep me all together) . I'm just glad my DH plays golf for his hobby...so he doesn't question my spending!

 

[nekonekoneko]

Pffft, those are rookie numbers. It’s all about the World Marathon Challenge—7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, beginning in Antartica. I haven’t checked on flight costs to Novolazarevskaya, but I‘m sure they’re eminently reasonable. I find that that people crazier than me help to justify my own insane decisions.

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All for the low low price of €39,900!

https://worldmarathonchallenge.com/schedule-cost-2-2/

 

[Novatrix]

Just remember, any hobby is as expensive as you want to make it.

After all, they hold 5ks in nudist colonies.

 

[azrivest]

After all, they hold 5ks in nudist colonies.

Oh the chafing.

 

[Let's Get Kronk]

Oh the chafing.

I did a 5-mile run barefoot on the beach on my birthday while on vacation in the Outer Banks in 2013 thinking it would be this amazing experience, but the 9 blisters I came back with on both feet squashed that fantasy. I'll pass on the nudist colony 5K.

 

[Let's Get Kronk]

Oh! I finally got my medals hung! I say finally because I have had all the medals on the rack on the right (pictured below) in a box for years and years. MW finally motivated me to buy medal racks and hang everything. I decided runDisney needed its own rack and will need to be filled up. I think I’m also going to frame the 30th anniversary poster I got at bib pickup and hang it above the Disney rack. Cute doggo for extra attention.

 

[azrivest]

I did a 5-mile run barefoot on the beach on my birthday while on vacation in the Outer Banks in 2013 thinking it would be this amazing experience, but the 9 blisters I came back with on both feet squashed that fantasy. I'll pass on the nudist colony 5K.

I was also wondering if nudists run barefoot...

 

[Naomeri]

Oh the chafing.

And the bouncing

 

[gosalyn_mallard]

Well I may need to make some decisions about my original plans of dopey to DL for C2C. I threw our names into a lottery for a spot at brooks lodge to see the bears in Alaska in 2024. And shockingly we got a spot. It’s a bucket list trip and…not cheap. I also turn 40 in 2024. I wanted to do big things to celebrate the milestone so I don’t totally want to write off C2C. Why is it that I’ve picked such expensive things to be my hobby?! Didn’t someone say running is a cheap hobby??

Wow, that's so awesome! Brooks Lodge is on our bucket list too. Can't pass that up!! Was this your first year entering the lottery?