Marathon Weekend 2024

[Maliki2]

Got in and registered my girlfriend for the 10k instead of half ugh

 

[kidmd]

I'm in for Super Dopey (or whatever you call Dopey plus all the Disneyland Races)

 

[Chasing Dopey]

Well, DW was able to get me into the marathon, but now thanks to the ton of travel plan questions, she just missed getting us the 10k. Bitter sweet.

I miss Active, hard to say. This is the first time we've had this much trouble with the system, which I think is pretty awful.

 

[marty3d]

The fact that Dopey is still open after an hour this year is really making me feel better about registering for it in 2025! The fact I'm really not running it in 24 just hit me with major FOMO. Right decision for me though.

 

[Grabnar]

I'm calling it the Art Bell challenge because it's Coast to Coast in the AM

 

[The Expert]

For @The Expert

SO appropriate! LOL

The fact that Dopey is still open after an hour this year is really making me feel better about registering for it in 2025! The fact I'm really not running it in 24 just hit me with major FOMO. Right decision for me though.

Last year was attractive themes + anniversary year (10) for Dopey. I wouldn't expect it to sell out that fast until at least the next milestone anniversary.

 

[fatmanatee]

I'm a tiny bit surprised that the half is open with the 5k and 10k sold out, thought C2C might swing it the other way, at least with the 10k.

 

[PrincessV]

Are we seeing another round of Running Renaissance?

I miss Active, hard to say. This is the first time we've had this much trouble with the system, which I think is pretty awful.

Same. I had hoped my experience with W&D was an anomaly, but nope: exactly the same for this one. I cannot believe I miss Active!

I just wish there was a way to understand it all. Like, I covered all bases, right? 3 devices, multiple browsers on each, some on WiFi, some on cellular, different processing powers, entered the queues on each at different times ranging from 9:50am-10:10am… why would ALL of them stay unchanged at more than an hour for both W&D and this round???

 

[nekonekoneko]

Down goes Dopey!

 

[marty3d]

And Dopey is gone

 

[dis_or_dat]

So did Disney IT actually fix something or is demand down from last year, people chose club rundisney or charity as to not have a fight during registration? Seems so odd that 52 mins in and all but 5k available

definitely better than the DL roll out. I wonder if they increased the field size and previous years were smaller due to covid. like boston 2021 had a small field and you needed a 7:47 cushion to get in

 

[Kerry1957]

It's probably random/coincidence, but the 9 browsers I had going gave me times in just about exactly the order I opened them (with 5 still sitting on over an hour until I closed them down). I registered my DD and I for the Half on the first I opened which was the marathon button at 9:50.

 

[Marathongirl30]

One just dropped from an hour to 32 minutes - it's the only one I opened AFTER registration opened.... FWIW

Me too!! I got in under 30 minutes from opening. Joined the queue at 8:59.

 

[jrsharp21]

My co-worker, who is registered for Disneyland, said he wasn't going to do WDW this year. He got a bad case of FOMO at the last minute and just sent me a screen shot that he signed up for the full. LOL.

 

[nekonekoneko]

It's probably random/coincidence, but the 9 browsers I had going gave me times in just about exactly the order I opened them (with 5 still sitting on over an hour until I closed them down). I registered my DD and I for the Half on the first I opened which was the marathon button at 9:50.

Mine were all over the place. It was the second to last window that gave me the best time.

 

[Disney at Heart]

I'll take the 10!
I have three at an hour

In for lucky Dopey #7!

How ridiculously unnecessarily stressful! Disney IT is awful! Got through quickly on my laptop browsers (Edge and Chrome) but it wouldn't give me the cc payment boxes! I had to click on a queue here and get through on my phone to get the ability to pay on Safari!

So glad you made it!

 

[fatmanatee]

definitely better than the DL roll out. I wonder if they increased the field size and previous years were smaller due to covid. like boston 2021 had a small field and you needed a 7:47 cushion to get in

I think they started allowing fewer people at a time through so they had fewer issues with people having races in their cart and selling out in the process (there were a LOT of complaints about this with DL, people expected that if they got through to the registration page, they would get their races). Would make sense given how many people had long queue times.

 

[Disneyhanna]

It's probably random/coincidence, but the 9 browsers I had going gave me times in just about exactly the order I opened them (with 5 still sitting on over an hour until I closed them down). I registered my DD and I for the Half on the first I opened which was the marathon button at 9:50.

It is indeed randomized if you open the link before the countdown starts, but the FIRST window I opened was also my fastest, funny though.

I opened lots of browsers using the marathon link before :57, and then opened a few more using the Dopey link when all links went live around :59. Since all of mine were open before the countdown, I was randomly sorted and I had one very quick wait time in the first set (using the early marathon link) and and my next fastest was in my second set (using the later Dopey link). I'd say about half of my browsers started under 40 mins and the other half were over an hour and I closed after registering. I had a lot of friends registering that I was able to share my shorter queues with. Out of all my browsers, only ONE of mine had an almost immediate wait time, the rest started around 20 or higher.

Using Safari private browsers, all windows have a separate queue ID but chrome incognito will not have unique IDs, interestingly enough. So I generally stick to Safari on my MacBook.

 

[chicagodisfan]

Now hopefully the 7 month mark for DVC switch happens as smoothly!

Agreed! We need to add a couple of nights now that I’m in for the half but there is no more availability for our room size at one of our home resort right now and we’d need to transfer points to make the other work. How fast do you think things will fill at 7 months?!?

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

I feel like the half marathon is soo tempting to get the special CTC challenge medal.... the fact that is still open, makes me want to get it soo bad. I wish I was in driving distance to WDW, so I could just justify it a quick weekend trip.