Marathon Weekend 2025

[Herding_Cats]

Bet that made the miles go by faster, too!

I mean…if it works….

 

[runwithperseverence7]

Thanks to everyone that posted the previous MW temps!
The race handed out sponges during the race but I carried it in my hand. I heard the US olympic marathoners say to carry ice in your hand to help cool down. I only dabbed it on myself because I hate being wet during a run and I don’t want chafing! They also had a sprinkler which I did not go thru. Since I won’t be “racing” I should be ok since I’ll be going slower. Although I should have slowed down for this one but I had to get the PR. I do very few races, so when I do I’m always trying to do my best. This will be my first “fun run”!

 

[Naomeri]

Everyone with on-site reservations, don’t forget you can get tickets for the MK AH events on January 13 starting today.

 

[marty3d]

Everyone with on-site reservations, don’t forget you can get tickets for the MK AH events on January 13 starting today.

Got mine! Hoping it's as great as it was in 2023 and they don't go overboard on capacity!

 

[fatmanatee]

I'm in. First AH event!

 

[Herding_Cats]

We are also in! MK After Hours tickets were available sometime around 6:35am (Eastern time), which is just a weird time for that. I was up, logged in, and refreshing at 6am.

 

[Cabius]

Everyone with on-site reservations, don’t forget you can get tickets for the MK AH events on January 13 starting today.

I forgot which forum I was in, and thought I had missed out on booking one of the free DVC events. I was bummed, until I clicked through and realized it would cost almost $800 for me to take my family (most of whom would promptly fall asleep). I am OUT, but I'll see y'all at the starting line!

 

[jrsharp21]

During the marathon, do they have run/walk pacers for 3:45 and 3:30 times? If so, does anyone know what their intervals are?

 

[MissLiss279]

During the marathon, do they have run/walk pacers for 3:45 and 3:30 times? If so, does anyone know what their intervals are?

I found this from last year:

…, but here is the list of pacers for the weekend (half and full only, as usual)

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[jrsharp21]

I found this from last year:

Thank you!!! I have been messing around with 4 min / 30 sec intervals at around 7:45 pace. While out on my run today (no music, so a million thoughts going through my head, LOL) it dawned on me, that I could possibly try to do a 3:30 to 3:45 marathon by going this route. My hope would be that by taking the 30 second walk breaks, I could try to save my hamstrings, which always seem to give me fits the last half of the marathon.

 

[Stitch&Co.]

Thanks to everyone that posted the previous MW temps!
The race handed out sponges during the race but I carried it in my hand. I heard the US olympic marathoners say to carry ice in your hand to help cool down.

I heard the same thing. Apparently, it is the most effective in the left hand.

 

[DHSsenior007]

Everyone with on-site reservations, don’t forget you can get tickets for the MK AH events on January 13 starting today.

Thanks! Does anyone know if/when this will sell-out? DH and I are tempted to do it, but we aren't sure we're ready to put the money down quite yet...

 

[kristenabelle]

We are also in! MK After Hours tickets were available sometime around 6:35am (Eastern time), which is just a weird time for that. I was up, logged in, and refreshing at 6am.

Me too! I set my alarm and was miffed I could've gotten another hour of sleep in

 

[Naomeri]

Thanks! Does anyone know if/when this will sell-out? DH and I are tempted to do it, but we aren't sure we're ready to put the money down quite yet...

It probably will, but there’s no telling when

Me too! I set my alarm and was miffed I could've gotten another hour of sleep in

You could’ve gotten even more sleep, I didn’t buy mine until almost 10ET

 

[Dopey 2020]

During the marathon, do they have run/walk pacers for 3:45 and 3:30 times? If so, does anyone know what their intervals are?

Thank you!!! I have been messing around with 4 min / 30 sec intervals at around 7:45 pace. While out on my run today (no music, so a million thoughts going through my head, LOL) it dawned on me, that I could possibly try to do a 3:30 to 3:45 marathon by going this route. My hope would be that by taking the 30 second walk breaks, I could try to save my hamstrings, which always seem to give me fits the last half of the marathon.

I run walk 4/:30 and have been trying for a 3:30 full for the past year and a half. The last MW the Galloway pacers were absolutely spot on with this, we crossed the 13.1 mark at 1:45 but I lost them around mile 18. There was a previous year I thought they had a faster pace crew but last year 3:30 was the fastest with 3:45 as the next group up. 2023 they had a 3:40 group that I ran with at the same interval. I think it depends how many faster volunteers they get. FWIW they said their target running was 7:20 - 7:30 depending on hill or weaving thru the crowd and moved breaks if it was within 20 seconds of a hill or water stop.

The splits before I started fading -

 

[Boiler37]

Just got in from a Telegram alert! Anyone who missed out for sure use the Telegram. Lots of openings dropped today briefly but excited since this will be my first half marathon!

 

[Naomeri]

Just got in from a Telegram alert! Anyone who missed out for sure use the Telegram. Lots of openings dropped today briefly but excited since this will be my first half marathon!

It seems to happen that a bunch of spots for various weekends drop around race weekends

 

[Zutroy]

I run walk 4/:30 and have been trying for a 3:30 full for the past year and a half. The last MW the Galloway pacers were absolutely spot on with this, we crossed the 13.1 mark at 1:45 but I lost them around mile 18. There was a previous year I thought they had a faster pace crew but last year 3:30 was the fastest with 3:45 as the next group up. 2023 they had a 3:40 group that I ran with at the same interval. I think it depends how many faster volunteers they get. FWIW they said their target running was 7:20 - 7:30 depending on hill or weaving thru the crowd and moved breaks if it was within 20 seconds of a hill or water stop.

For as long as I can remember, 3:30 is the fastest pace group out of corral A. Running a 3:15 marathon is around a 7:20 continuous pace, which would probably be somewhere in the 6:45 min/mile range for run/walk. I just don’t see people who have put in the training to handle that pace using run/walk. As it is, the 3:30 group is hard enough, and I will see a large group start but very few be able to stick with them. I’m pretty sure one year I saw just the pacers cross the finish line.

I have a love/hate relation with the 3:30 group, because I usually start out at a 7:45 to 7:30 pace, which results in them sprinting past me and then walking. Then I pass them. Then they pass me. Then I pass them . . . Mile after mile. It’s a great motivator to dial up the pace and finish sub 3:30.

 

[Jason Bryer]

Here's the old @DopeyBadger T+D chart:

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2022 was also really rough. High of 79 degrees and you felt all of it in that dead zone between AK and HS.

I have shared this for past years. Freshly updated with a new service and 2024. The red line is the temperature at 5:00am (race start, for recent years) and then the high and low temps for the day. Point size corresponds to humidity.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

Very late SAFD: I usually listen to a podcast during my training runs. (I've tried audio books, but I'll start thinking about something and next thing I know a chapter or two has gone by and I have no clue what's going on.) Once the podcast runs out (around 40 minutes) I'll switch to music or nothing.
For actual races, I start the running music playlist playing and let to until after I finish. Using the Aftershokz, sometime the music is washed out by outside noise, but so be it. For local 5Ks and 10Ks, I've tended not to worry about any music in lieu of situational awareness, plus the race is over so quickly. That goes double for the Peachtree Road Race, where there is so much external music, plus all the other runners.

As for MW 2025, that's looking iffy now. Details in the training journal shortly.