Official 2016 Star Wars Half Marthon - The Dark Side Weekend

[opusone]

Well, this sucks. I just woke up with a cold. Sore throat, cough, headache, chills, yay. I apologize to anyone at dinner if you feel sick later, I honestly felt nothing until this morning. Running won't be fun today unless I can clear this throat.

It was good seeing you at dinner last night, and in the corral this morning. I hope the running made the cold go away. Maybe it was just the rebellion in you trying to find a way out with all this dark side propaganda.

 

[Z-Knight]

It was good seeing you at dinner last night, and in the corral this morning. I hope the running made the cold go away. Maybe it was just the rebellion in you trying to find a way out with all this dark side propaganda.

Thx, it was awesome dinner with everyone there (thx for coming @Fruto76, et al).

I hope you all had great runs - i was in foot pain for most of it and cold was initially ok. But whem I got on the bus, i froze and now have a fever. Super high probably because i'm hot. Taking Tylenol and sitting in bed undet covers. Didn't have the fever in the morning.

 

[opusone]

But when I got on the bus, i froze and now have a fever. Super high probably because i'm hot. Taking Tylenol and sitting in bed undet covers. Didn't have the fever in the morning.

Nooooooooooo! Ugh. I can't believe you even attempted the half, much less completed it. Congrats, but sorry you are under the weather!

Feel free to answer this when you are feeling better, but did you try the run/walk intervals? If so, how was it?

 

[Z-Knight]

Nooooooooooo! Ugh. I can't believe you even attempted the half, much less completed it. Congrats, but sorry you are under the weather!

Feel free to answer this when you are feeling better, but did you try the run/walk intervals? If so, how was it?

I tried but could not maintain the pace needed...foot pain slowed me down

 

[Z-Knight]

I tried but could not maintain the pace needed...foot pain slowed me down

Average heart rate was 139, with max 155. I literally had no push. My resting heart rate is around 45, in the mornings while still in bed and if I sit for a long time too. I must not have that good aerobic base right now to improve on my 1:49 hr half PR. Hopefully the Maffetone method of heart rate training will help in the future.

Anyway, the important thing is I got the Kessel medal, so I'm satisfied.

Hope everyone had great runs!

 

[rteetz]

Congrats everyone! I'm super jealous especially of those who got Kessel run medals!

 

[JStoney]

Has anyone seen how many people ran the half?

 

[Disneyland_emily]

Looks like 18,000ish finished.. Not sure the # of starters..

 

[opusone]

Has anyone seen how many people ran the half?

I think there were about 22k registered, but like @Disneyland_emily, I don't know how many started.

 

[opusone]

Average heart rate was 139, with max 155. I literally had no push. My resting heart rate is around 45, in the mornings while still in bed and if I sit for a long time too.

I know everybody (or every body) is different, but for reference, my avg heart rate was 159, and before I started pushing it the last 3-4 miles, my max was about 175 (on one of the overpasses). I really pushed it the last mile and got to a max of 184.

 

[Fruto76]

Well, this sucks. I just woke up with a cold. Sore throat, cough, headache, chills, yay. I apologize to anyone at dinner if you feel sick later, I honestly felt nothing until this morning. Running won't be fun today unless I can clear this throat.

It was good seeing you at dinner last night, and in the corral this morning. I hope the running made the cold go away. Maybe it was just the rebellion in you trying to find a way out with all this dark side propaganda.

Thx, it was awesome dinner with everyone there (thx for coming @Fruto76, et al).

I hope you all had great runs - i was in foot pain for most of it and cold was initially ok. But whem I got on the bus, i froze and now have a fever. Super high probably because i'm hot. Taking Tylenol and sitting in bed undet covers. Didn't have the fever in the morning.

Average heart rate was 139, with max 155. I literally had no push. My resting heart rate is around 45, in the mornings while still in bed and if I sit for a long time too. I must not have that good aerobic base right now to improve on my 1:49 hr half PR. Hopefully the Maffetone method of heart rate training will help in the future.

Anyway, the important thing is I got the Kessel medal, so I'm satisfied.

Hope everyone had great runs!

@Z-Knight sorry to hear you woke up feeling like crud this morning, but Congrats on the Kessel Run! Awesome job-rest up and feel better soon!
@opusone hope you had a great run- did you hit your goal? Hope your travel home is safe today.. Happy bday to your daughter!
We all had a great time at dinner last night! It was so nice to meet some fellow Dis Runners! Thanks for letting us tag along
The four of us in the group all had a great run today- after the first 5k, anyways! Super crowded until we were out of Hollywood.
Hope everyone else had a great race and gets to celebrate!

 

[opusone]

@opusone hope you had a great run- did you hit your goal? Hope your travel home is safe today.. Happy bday to your daughter!
We all had a great time at dinner last night! It was so nice to meet some fellow Dis Runners! Thanks for letting us tag along
The four of us in the group all had a great run today- after the first 5k, anyways! Super crowded until we were out of Hollywood.
Hope everyone else had a great race and gets to celebrate!

I did hit my goal!! In fact, I beat it by a little more than two and a half minutes.

Thanks for the well-wishes on travel and my daughter's birthday. See below for the through-the-years photo montage I posted for her on fb:


Glad the four of you had a great race this morning! Now, go and have fun celebrating at DHS, 'Ohana, and MK!!!!

 

[MommaoffherRocker]

DH's friend just told him that he skipped 4 miles by crossing the median. But it was ok because he told the cop he was injured (no not really he didn't fully train)

Other than that we had a great run! We got to the start area at 2am to make sure we got pictures with all the characters.
I thought the course was crowded but manageable (we were in corral H) and the costumes were awesome. I can't wait for next year!

Now we are on to Epcot to eat/drink our way around the world.

 

[Fruto76]

@opusone congrats on an awesome time today! You shredded that half!
The photo montage is GREAT! Your daughter is adorable and I'm sure she is not really the equivalent to Malificent!

 

[opusone]

@opusoneYour daughter is adorable and I'm sure she is not really the equivalent to Malificent!

You are correct… she is a really good kid! But… I still had to make fun of her becoming a teenager.

 

[opusone]

BTW @Z-Knight and @Fruto76, TSA did search my bag for the medals and thoroughly checked them over.

 

[RangerPooh]

Anyone else still waiting for 5k and 10k pictures to post? I've been trying since yesterday to link my kids bibs but get error messages.

I enjoyed the 10k but wish that they'd rethink the ESPN area. The highway was more enjoyable. Although the off road portion was a nice change. Didn't enjoy bottlenecks, and clearly some people lied about their times. Perhaps I'm jaded, but I'm starting to wish rD would require POT for the 10k. Or if not add more corrals and picture opportunities to try to decrease those fibbing on their times.

Liked running through HS and the cosplayers at ESPN. Wish there would have been more run in EPCOT. Didn't like the three guys that left course once the race began (corral C) to pee in the woods. The walkers walking three across or stopping without warning. I walk here and there but stay to the right and raise my hand. Also didn't care for rude runners pushing their way through.

Also enjoyed my race box. There weren't any for the Tink 10k last year.

 

[dta87]

The half pictures are showing up for me but on my finisher medal picture they put a Star Wars 10K I DID IT! banner on it. Hopefully they update that without me having to call them

 

[nhtinkerbell]

The half pictures are showing up for me but on my finisher medal picture they put a Star Wars 10K I DID IT! banner on it. Hopefully they update that without me having to call them

They put 5k on ours and we did the 10k. So mad. The pic came out awesome except for tHat

 

[dta87]

They put 5k on ours and we did the 10k. So mad. The pic came out awesome except for tHat

I have contacted the PhotoPass people multiple ways and I am trying to get them to fix this. One thing I will say is that I like the photos better than Marathonfoto quality wise so far