Hi, everyone! I see that the Challenge is currently sold out. Does it ever open up again? I know that the races for Marathon Weekend would pop open every now and then.
We are considering trying to make the Springtime Surprise, because of our tragic and unbelievable cancelation of our Marathon Weekend trip.
Here's the short version (all happening in 24 hours): Wife slips and falls (but ok), childcare gets covid (we find alternate), furnace breaks at 2am on 10degree night (we fix it), my mom goes to ER for Covid (my sister is taking care of her), daughter sent home from school for covid tracing (she tests negative; YAY), daughter not allowed back at school until Tuesday (we work out childcare again for the weekend), my Mom back at home but still feeling bad from Covid... and finally, our next-day flight to WDW gets cancelled. Our 2nd choice flight fills up before we can book it.
At that point, we canceled the trip, figuring that the universe was telling us something.
BUT the story doesn't end there! How about the next 24 hours: Our 2 backup flights were canceled anyway, at noon on Friday our kitchen is flooding because a broom fell over onto the water dispenser on our fridge, my mom goes back to the ER, and are you ready for the grand finale? My wife test positive for Covid on Saturday.
So, if we HAD gone, our kitchen would have flooded, we would not have been able to run the race because my wife was sick, and we would have been stuck on Florida unable to board a plane home.
Wow.... that was the SHORT version!
Anyway, I still haven't heard back from Run Disney, but I'm HOPING HOPING HOPING that they will take pity and refund at least part of our money. If so, we might be able to run the 10-miler and maybe the other races, too.