The Running Thread - 2018

[LSUlakes]

I am so frustrated, angry, upset I don’t even know what to do at this point! This evening was my final training run for Chicago. A nice, easy 3 miles.

About halfway through the run I came up on a guy walking his dogs. I swear I’ve seen and passed him numerous times over the months. I thought I’d given them a wide enough berth as I passed. Apparently not.

As I passed them, one of the dogs turned, lunged and latched onto my forearm. I’ve got two deep punctures, one of which immediately swelled up like it had a shooter marble in it. The guy gave me his info and I had to walk a mile and a half home to get the car and drive to the urgent care.

The urgent care saw something on my x-rays they didn’t like, so now I’m sitting in the ER waiting on anything from an all clear to a CT scan to possible surgery. I’m exhausted.

The good news is that nobody thinks I’ll have to skip Chicago (yet). The bad news is I’ll be running it on two high powered antibiotics with attendant side effects. I certainly won’t be in a condition to shoot for the big sub-4:00 major PR attempt, it doesn’t feel like.

Thanks for letting me vent and moan a little!

Thats a bummer! I hope everything works out and you have a great race!

 

[LSUlakes]

Fun Friday QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

ATTQOTD: I've heard of this idea before, so it's not a original thought.... but I would love a dining option while on the people mover! A hour or so of nonstop people mover during the fireworks while eating some nuggets and fries!

 

[rteetz]

QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

Good question. I like yours with the possible dining experience on the people mover. I am always up for new tours at AK. I’m very excited for the rhino tour in November. I’d love a hippo tour or maybe a giraffe one.

 

[Capang]

ATTQOTD: I would love a backstage tour of the attractions. Or a partial ride/evac tour. My 7 year olds goal at Disney is to get evac'd off splash, SSE, IASW, and ride SM with the lights on. It's kinda my goal too, so I'd take that non-existant tour.

 

[Miranda]

ATTQOTD: I would love a backstage tour of the attractions. Or a partial ride/evac tour. My 7 year olds goal at Disney is to get evac'd off splash, SSE, IASW, and ride SM with the lights on. It's kinda my goal too, so I'd take that non-existant tour.

I've been evac'd off all of those... SSE like 4 or 5 times. And done something with SM with the lights on... I forget the specifics, though. I think we had to evacuate, but I forget how they got us all off... I think somehow they got the cars to places where you could unload. I remember being in there with the lights on though.

 

[AntimonyER]

ATTQOTD: A non-busy park day. (Hey, you said dream big!).

Although almost 20 years ago we had this happen. To this day I don't know how, but it was the day after Christmas, and MK was dead. (2000 maybe?) My brother and I had sang in the Candlelight Processional 4 times including the Christmas eve service with our school (2 free tickets for each night, 4 for christmas eve, 20 total) and we gave our entire extended family that was visiting fl a ticket for christmas. We went the day after, and it was the second best day I have ever had at MK. (The first being the first day we took our children, with PPO BOG to get main street almost to ourselves, a castle shot with no one in the background, and SDMT walk-on TWICE before rope-drop).

 

[PrincessV]

All in all, a late night but one that turned out as best it could given the way it started. Run safe, everyone!

VERY glad to see this update! Just in case - I had to run a half on a heavy round of antibiotics once and it was better than expected. I'm also allergic to penicillin, so they put me on clindomycin. I had no specific side effects, other than fatigue. I actually ran really well, just was extra fatigued afterward. Hang in there - wishing you a great race!

Fun Friday QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

ATTQOTD: The only experience I want is the one I had every visit in the early 90s - low crowds, short lines, no FP, resort rates I could actually afford.

 

[TheHamm]

ATTQOTD: I would love a backstage tour of the attractions. Or a partial ride/evac tour. My 7 year olds goal at Disney is to get evac'd off splash, SSE, IASW, and ride SM with the lights on. It's kinda my goal too, so I'd take that non-existant tour.

Sadly, I just want to be evaced from SM because I am a chicken and love all of it but the drop!

 

[Dis5150]

ATTQOTD: A hotel inside MK where just the guests can access the park all night after it closes to the public. I would pay for that!

@camaker Ugh, so sorry to hear that! I love dogs but I hate dogs on my runs! Hoping you feel 100% for your marathon! You got this!

 

[Jules76126]

@camaker glad to hear that you are okay and will be able to still run Chicago.

ATTQOTD: definitely low crowds and pretzels that didn’t cost $7.

 

[Kazrak]

Sadly, I just want to be evaced from SM because I am a chicken and love all of it but the drop!

I'm usually okay with the drop.

Usually.

I had one ride (I think at Disneyland) where we're going up that last lift hill, and all I'm thinking is, "Um, okay, I'm done. Can I get out now? Please?"

 

[Kazrak]

Fun Friday QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

A bunch of the older stuff that's gone. The original Imagination ride is probably the biggest, with Horizons a close second. (No, I don't want to ditch Mission Space for the latter, but I'll gladly pull Eric Idle out of the Imagination Pavilion for a revamp.)

 

[Miranda]

A bunch of the older stuff that's gone. The original Imagination ride is probably the biggest, with Horizons a close second. (No, I don't want to ditch Mission Space for the latter, but I'll gladly pull Eric Idle out of the Imagination Pavilion for a revamp.)

I'm good with ditching Mission Space... I just don't find it that appealing.

Let's bring back the old World of Motion too while we're at it. (Speaking of rides that I have been evacuated off of... we were evacuated off that one 2-3 times too!) Test Track is ok but it's not that great.

 

[jennamfeo]

@camaker SO glad to hear that you are okay. Wishing you the best run in Chicago!

ATTQOTD: This is a hard one. I am sure there are tons of things I can think of that are already probably offered but I just don't feel like forking out the money for it.

Did everyone see the new DisneyxVans collab for Mickey's 90th?!

https://www.vans.com/shop/disney-and-vans

 

[rteetz]

@camaker SO glad to hear that you are okay. Wishing you the best run in Chicago!

ATTQOTD: This is a hard one. I am sure there are tons of things I can think of that are already probably offered but I just don't feel like forking out the money for it.

Did everyone see the new DisneyxVans collab for Mickey's 90th?!

https://www.vans.com/shop/disney-and-vans

Yes I have the toy story vans so I’m trying to resist these.

 

[jennamfeo]

Yes I have the toy story vans so I’m trying to resist these.

I'm getting at least two pairs from this collection. They are SO cute.

 

[FFigawi]

Fun Friday QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

I'd like to sit in and observe their social media monitoring team. One of my wife's friends works in PR for Disney and has told her that when problems pop up (like a monorail getting stuck), they pretty much have seven minutes to get it corrected before Twitter, etc., start blowing up, forcing them to respond. I'd love to watch them keeping track of all the little incidents and happenings, trying to determine which ones need a quick tweet or whatever from PR, and figuring out a strategy for managing all of them as they unfold.

 

[rteetz]

I'd like to sit in and observe their social media monitoring team. One of my wife's friends works in PR for Disney and has told her that when problems pop up (like a monorail getting stuck), they pretty much have seven minutes to get it corrected before Twitter, etc., start blowing up, forcing them to respond. I'd love to watch them keeping track of all the little incidents and happenings, trying to determine which ones need a quick tweet or whatever from PR, and figuring out a strategy for managing all of them as they unfold.

This is a good one. It’s amazing how things have changed with social media. I’m sure before social media they would’ve had a much longer period to decide if they need to respond or not.

 

[Disney at Heart]

...Thanks for letting me vent and moan a little!

So glad things turned out all right. I was bitten once, called the owner, and got the "My dog is so sweet; he wouldn't do that" line. Well, the sweet dogs bite, too, so it is so important that they be under control. I'm so happy you can still run Chicago. I'm pulling for you and all the others running it this weekend!

Fun Friday QOTD: What is something you would like to experience at the parks that is not currently offered? The sky is the limit here folks, so dream big!

I'd like to meet Walt and talk to him for an hour. ...... Since that's not happening, I'd like for the People Mover to go all over MK so I could step on it and go to any area without so much walking. You know, FP Splash Mountain, step on People Mover and ride over to FP Space Mountain, step back on the People Mover to ride over to Dumbo, get on again and ride over to Pirates, then ride to lunch at Tony's, etc. I would probably start to look like the people on WALL-E tottering around.

ATTQOTD: A non-busy park day. (Hey, you said dream big!).

Got my "non-busy park day" before Hurricane Irma. As she came our way, the crowds left. The day before Disney closed down for the storm, there were very few people in the parks. That afternoon we rode Frozen back to back ALONE, and when we took the bus back to the resort, we were the only riding it, except for another bus driver who was just getting off duty, whom we dropped off at the "bus barn" to go home. Disney had already parked most of the busses there for safety and because there were so few people to transport they didn't need them. We got up and left Saturday (our scheduled check out time), headed up I-95 to I-16 with no traffic (I-16 was one way, both lanes). Next time there's a hurricane, I think I'll just hunker down at WDW with Kristen Bell (who was there) and be the first one back in the park when it reopens!

 

[Professor_Cookie]

ATTQOTD: Mr. Toads Wild Ride. I love it at Disneyland, but can’t say I rode either track at WDW.