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I am still holding out hope that dopey is all 4 races
Me too! It would make the price tag a little easier to swallow...
I am still holding out hope that dopey is all 4 races
FYI, just read it was updated to $95. Still a lot, but more logical.
To add fuel to the rumors, now the runDisney Twitter account is hinting towards something.
There's no official announcement at this time for 2014 #WDWMarathon Weekend, but please stay tuned.
On the page somewhere it talks about reunion breakfast for 5k on Thursday and 10k Friday.I am still holding out hope that dopey is all 4 races
I thought that $95 for the Disneyland 10K was too expensive (I still signed up for the DDD tho). Now they are going to charge $160 for that same race in WDW (almost triple the 5K race fee)? That is an insane mark-up to me (unless the tech shirt is silk and the medal has some precious medal/stone in it).
It was bad enough that the Half and the Full have the same price tag. But the 10K? That is really pushing it. (On a side note: I hope the Dopey Medal has a pickaxe with 'Dopey' written on the handle like in "Once Upon a Time"!)
My question is: How are they going to handle WDW 2015?"
For example, I intend to run the Goofy in 2015 (10th anniversary race!). Now that they have the Dopey Challenge, will I have to choose Goofy over Dopey in order to get the Anniversary Goofy medal? I mean the Dopey is just "Goofy Plus", right?
So, if I choose to sign up for the Dopey in 2015, will I be able to either 1) get both the Goofy and Dopey medals if I finish all three, or 2) get to choose 'which' Challenge medal I want?
OR, do I just sign up for the Goofy, and also the 10K, so I get the Goofy Medal and the 10K medal and can claim my 'unofficial' Dopey (like it has been done for years)?
I was already planning on doing Goofy in 2015 because I am not quite ready to take it on for 2014...this year has been working on improving my time and a bunch of 1/2's (plus DDD) but gosh darn it, now my mind is going straight to Dopey for 2015. Cause you know, training for 39.3 miles wasn't a crazy enough thought for me...what's an extra 6.2 miles, right? Haha!! Man, RunDisney sure knows how to make a girl commit to running more and more miles!!
Or would Goofy remain as Half + Full and would Dopey be 10K + Half - to echo what is being done in Disneyland Dumbo (10K + 1/2)?
We here have unofficially defined Dopey as traditionally being 5K + Half + Full, but we don't know what's being kicked around in Disney's collective minds.
I think the current pricing is too high for 10k + half.
The (alleged) Active.com page where the prices were listed shows the 10K at $95 for early registration, not $160.
I doubt the Dopey will include the 5K.
It DID show 160 no matter what it's showing now... So that's why people have been throwing that number out there...