Official Star Wars Half Marathon Weekend - The Dark Side 2017

[wehrengrizz]

So your post had me go check the pricing on Southwest and my return flight went down $20. Seriously???? That is so my luck. I think you can adjust it for a credit on Southwest so I need to figure that out. I should have procrastinated more!

I wish SWA flew here, so any time we've had to change or cancel I am like, okay when are we driving 4 hours to use our "already paid for plane tickets?" lol Because I just can't stop checking to see if I "could have saved"

 

[lovingeire]

I wish SWA flew here, so any time we've had to change or cancel I am like, okay when are we driving 4 hours to use our "already paid for plane tickets?" lol Because I just can't stop checking to see if I "could have saved"

I have two hours to drive to an airport that has Southwest, but my "local" airport is a little over an hour away. (Hello middle of nowhere, sharing the road with Amish buggies.) The price difference makes it worth the drive though. Although if I'd stop slacking and buy earlier that would help too! . I can see how it can become addicting to check though! I figure now I have $24 for my W&D tickets! That's one way to save!

 

[wehrengrizz]

I have two hours to drive to an airport that has Southwest, but my "local" airport is a little over an hour away. (Hello middle of nowhere, sharing the road with Amish buggies.) The price difference makes it worth the drive though. Although if I'd stop slacking and buy earlier that would help too! . I can see how it can become addicting to check though! I figure now I have $24 for my W&D tickets! That's one way to save!

bahaha yes!!! DH has a whole ticket to use before mid-december. Okay, let's drive to Minneapolis and do W&D weekend Our local airport is not even 20 min but unless it's my whole crew (DH & 5 kiddos), the money saved is outweighed by gas money and car parking money lol
ETA oh, and 8 extra hours in a car

 

[cavepig]

Add me to the I check daily my Southwest flights to see if they change, booked when they came out & I got good prices for us, but I would rather have the flight that gets in 3 hours earlier, but not for a $100+ more.

I figure for our park touring plans we'll be having a lot of AK time, I really hope they pre-announce AP previews to know ahead of time. We've lucked out on other soft openings, like new Fantasyland, Mission Space, Toy Story & even got to soft open AK, but Mine Train we missed out (we could see it going but we didn't have the special blogger pass to get on, very lame).

 

[BDK33]

Is the only way to see the finish with a cheer squad ticket?

If so do you have to be there before the race starts to get in? Since race start and finish are in different places can someone go to the start and then head over to the finish later?

Never done it before... TIA

 

[cavepig]

Is the only way to see the finish with a cheer squad ticket?

If so do you have to be there before the race starts to get in? Since race start and finish are in different places can someone go to the start and then head over to the finish later?

Never done it before... TIA

No, anyone can see the finish. Cheer Squad though gets you the reserved finish line seating. A page back someone posted it's come & go as you please though.

 

[mbwhitti]

Add me to the I check daily my Southwest flights to see if they change, booked when they came out & I got good prices for us, but I would rather have the flight that gets in 3 hours earlier, but not for a $100+ more. .

I seriously check daily. We do a lot of SWA rewards points so I book with points and am able to change without penalty and get points back. I keep waiting on our return flight to drop because it was twice the points as our outbound flight.

 

[MyFavEeyore]

No, anyone can see the finish. Cheer Squad though gets you the reserved finish line seating. A page back someone posted it's come & go as you please though.

The "reserved" seating is also first come first served. So though you can come and go into the ChEAR Sqaud area, getting to sit down might be an issue.

 

[ryanj36]

Just came to share that quote, @cavepig !

Just came to share that quote, @cavepig !

Just came to share that quote, @cavepig !

that is super exciting, hopefully it will happen...I'm there 22-29

 

[DisSconnie]

Less than 8 weeks to go! How is everyone's training going?

My training was going well. I finished my 9.5 miles last week at 13:54 pace last week. Then this week, I caught a nasty chest cold and am hacking up a lung, so have only been walking, not running. Luckily, it's my down week of running with the Galloway plan, but I feel guilty for not getting out and running more this week. I figure it's better that I take it slow and recover completely, rather than push myself too hard and wind up with pneumonia or something.

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Hmm, anyone think there's a chance there might be a soft opening of Pandora world? How early do they typically do the "soft-openings"?

 

[cavepig]

Hmm, anyone think there's a chance there might be a soft opening of Pandora world? How early do they typically do the "soft-openings"?

As mentioned back a page, there's been discussion of maybe previews for AP/DVC starting April 22, but who knows really. We're all hoping, so maybe we'll all get lucky to preview it!

Hope your cold heads out fast!

 

[HockeyMomNH]

So, we just got back from Princess weekend. My DD17 did the 5K with me. She saw the Kylo Ren 1/2 marathon medal at the expo and has decided she wants to try for that. I've ordered bibs through Acclaim and I'm waiting to hear about rooms.

She is in good shape, but we don't have much time for her to train, so the goal will just be to finish before the balloon ladies!

We will already be down there for my daughter's high school band trip, so I just had to extend a few days.

Looks like I will be around for a dis meet after all! Maybe I will have better luck this time.

 

[MMSRunner87]

Will they let you switch to the challenge if you registered for the half? My hubby decided to join me and make it a full blown trip. He registered for the challenge, but I only registered for the half.

 

[croach]

Will they let you switch to the challenge if you registered for the half? My hubby decided to join me and make it a full blown trip. He registered for the challenge, but I only registered for the half.

They should let you but you'll need to email them to confirm. You have to pay a transfer fee and the challenge. Disney then refunds you for the half.

 

[bryana]

Will they let you switch to the challenge if you registered for the half? My hubby decided to join me and make it a full blown trip. He registered for the challenge, but I only registered for the half.

Yes. You'd have to register for the the challenge, then send the transfer form into the email address. They will refund the cost of the half minus $45. While the form can be found on the RunDisney website, I'd email rD and ask them to get an official response. The transfer form technically says that the final day for transfers was January 19th, but I was told last week by rD that they were still allowing transfers. This would just cover you a bit in case someone else at Track Shack doesn't agree.

 

[MMSRunner87]

Thanks @bryana and @croach!

 

[ywgckp]

Is Matt the Radar Technician too obscure for a costume?

 

[BigEeyore]

Is Matt the Radar Technician too obscure for a costume?

Definitely not! There were quite a few of these last year - cracks me up!

Training for me has been a little unfocused - I was on a plan coming into Light Side in January and then didn't really know what to do to recover and stay in shape for Dark Side. I've been running, also doing a lot of cross training, but this week was the first time in awhile I did back to back runs and I definitely felt it on the 10 miler having done 4 miles the day before! Just a reminder to me not to blow off the back to back runs!

Can't wait - finalizing costumes - right now I think I'm going with stormtrooper for 5K, Leia for 10K, and Vader for the half.

 

[lovingeire]

So I went to the doctor who pretty much confirmed my suspicions that I have a stress fracture. He took xrays, but of course nothing showed up. He told me the only way for it to heal was to stay off it. I was like I have a two 10Ks and a half marathon next month. The doctor said I could try reducing my mileage by about 20% and see how it does. He said if it's still bothering me in two weeks to call and they'd get me in for an MRI. So frustrating. Even though I knew that's what it likely was I'm so discouraged as I felt undertrained for Light Side and really wanted to get myself back in the saddle and prepared for Dark Side and I feel like this derails the work I have done.

 

[cavepig]

Oh no @lovingeire, hopefully it heals fast, maybe it's just very very minor, fingers crossed for you!

but this week was the first time in awhile I did back to back runs and I definitely felt it on the 10 miler having done 4 miles the day before! Just a reminder to me not to blow off the back to back runs!
Can't wait - finalizing costumes - right now I think I'm going with stormtrooper for 5K, Leia for 10K, and Vader for the half.

Costumes are the most important, I bet you'll look great! I'm basically done & my brother hasn't even started, I'm like you need to get on that! Great job on the 4 & 10 runs!!!

My week was good training wise, ended it with 12 yesterday, & besides my plantar foot felt pretty good. I actually for the first time that I can remember (not counting high school) looked at training paces to try to hit and had alerts every half mile, I think I didn't hate it as much as as I thought I would.

6 weekends to go & maybe 4ish weeks till waivers/guide!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so glad Rogue One comes out before too, planning on a viewing of all the movies before we leave.