WiSHers doing their first FULL Marathon at WDW - Jan 2012

[Ronda93]

6902

This is real.

Ronda

 

[cewait]

funny how serious it seems once you have a number...

 

[UNCBear24]

Everyone sounds like they are doing pretty well. Seems like the legs are getting a little tired, but I keep telling myself that's ok as these next two weeks will be getting all I can out of them before I cut back and let my body recoup. Anyone else feeling the leg fatigue?

I did my "long short run" 12 miles yesterday...as I feared the weather change for today. It was beautiful and great temps and although I wasn't feeling it, I did great. Avg. 9:30mm. All miles between 9:15-9:55. Left foot is bothering me today so I'll have to nurse it this week. My last LR, 24 miles, will be next week. Then one more 15 mile the following week. I am doing some speed work on the TM.

I haven't tapered much for the few half marathons I have done until this past February. I got sick...really sick 3 weeks before the Princess and just didn't run. Two weeks before the race, I was in bed and really thought I would die before morning. My girls had come home to run our last LR, but I was unable and so they ran without me. Finally 5 day before the race I went out to run/walk and did about 4 miles and the next day 5 miles. The day before the race I got sick again and lay in bed until 3am Sunday morning. I did fine in the race and later found out I was carrying around an infection that was draining me of all my energy. BUT that was a lot of crap just to say that if you are training, the taper will be important to heal the body as it will stay strong..perhaps even stronger after a time of rest.

Ok. Time to get down to it and finish strong!

Joan - My legs are feeling a bit of fatigue as well. At least today's run was done above freezing - a balmy 36. I've run a hard (7:20-7:30mm)
5 miler each of the last two weeks with a 20 mile run in between.
On top of fatigue, I'm still having pain in my knee and hip. The faster I run, the better they feel - too bad I can't run a 3:15 full.
Next week will be my last long run and I'll be glad to have that out of the way. Dave

 

[joan4mickey]

#3990

 

[Shannon84]

How did you find out your bib number? I haven't seen any emails or mail come my way yet

 

[Ronda93]

http://www.trackshack.com/disneysports/w12wdw/displaywaiver.php

I don't think the emails have actually gone out, but some eagle eye found this link.

Ronda

 

[Shannon84]

How did you find out your bib number? I haven't seen any emails or mail come my way yet

Awesome thank you!!

 

[dsnyfan21]

#3990

Joan - what a great number!!! I think your will be in like corral B or C or something!

 

[UNCBear24]

#1664 Wow, I am really going to do this!

 

[joan4mickey]

One month we will be wearing our numbers proudly....

 

[DrMomof3]

I'm 9465. It does feel more real now!

Amanda

 

[Disney Yooper]

http://www.trackshack.com/disneysports/w12wdw/displaywaiver.php

I don't think the emails have actually gone out, but some eagle eye found this link.

Ronda

That just gives me an error message saying it can't find my waiver.

 

[Ronda93]

Weird. I'll try again.

http://www.trackshack.com/disneysports/w12wdw/verify.php

There's a link on the right of the marathon page, too.
http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/events/rundisney/wdw-marathon/

Ronda

 

[Shannon84]

I'm 9465. It does feel more real now!

Amanda

Of course I can't remember my number right now but its close to yours

 

[Disney Yooper]

Weird. I'll try again.

http://www.trackshack.com/disneysports/w12wdw/verify.php

There's a link on the right of the marathon page, too.
http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/events/rundisney/wdw-marathon/

Ronda

I found it from the main page. I'm 9981. I know people are "guessing" the corral they may be in. Is that related to the bib #? Or did I miss something else?

 

[DrMomof3]

Of course I can't remember my number right now but its close to yours

Awesome! Maybe we'll be together before the start!!!

Amanda

 

[Ronda93]

There's a consensus that bib numbers correlate to corrals. Why Disney doesn't include that it beyond me. They know. Heck, the bibs are likely getting printed now.

Anyway, found this on runnersworld forums. It's old, 2009, when the full had a split start. This is absolutely a guess, but who can resist? I think the times may be more indicative than the bib numbers.

Marathon
Elite: #s 1-100, (m <=2:40/f <=3:00) red course
Corral A: #s 101-2161 <=3:40, blue course
Corral B: #s 2162-4553 <=4:00, blue
Corral C: #s 4554-7374 <=4:30, blue
Corral D: #s 7375-10150 <5:00 red
Corral E: #s 10151-12568 <5:30 red
Corral F: #s 12569-15344 <6:00 red
Corral G: #s 15345-17845 <7:00 red
Corral H: #s 17846-22000 red

Ronda

 

[UNCBear24]

I just found the following on carbo loading from Dec 2008 . . . any thoughts on this??? Dave

"I now realize that I just didn't know squat about carbo loading all those years, because the real secret wasn't discovered until 2002 and I didn't hear about it until last year.

This study by the University of Western Australia, which reads more like a science experiment than a running how-to article, proved you can increase the impact of carbo loading on glycogen levels as much as 90 percent. Then I validated the experiment at the last LA Marathon.

Here's what you do.

Eat lightly and normally the week before the marathon.
The day before your marathon, do a 3 minute, very-high-intensity speed workout in the morning. For me, that meant running two-plus all-out laps at the track, leaving me gasping for breath and really feeling the burn.
Consume 12 grams of carbs for every kilo of lean body mass spread over the next 24 hours. That's a HUGE amount of carbs. For my 150 pound body, that meant buying four 18-ounce cans of ABB Carboforce at 24 Hour Fitness and nursing them down during the course of the day (ten 12-ounce bottles of new Gatorade Carbohydrate Energy Formula would work as well).
If you wade through the study, you'll find the science of it is that your body responds to the all-out workout by getting ready to handle this stress again, i.e., it loads a ton of glycogen into your muscles. Yet the short duration of the workout means it has no impact on your readiness for the race the next day. And Carboforce isn't bad: it tastes like a really syrupy version of Gatorade.

While I must admit to feeling a little bit bloated at the starting line, I breezed past the free cellphone call area coming into downtown LA, where I had hit the wall in 2007, and felt strong all the way to the finish. My time was 23 minutes faster overall, and most of the improvement was in the last 5 miles, thanks to not hitting the wall. "

 

[SIMBAisKING]

I just found the following on carbo loading from Dec 2008 . . . any thoughts on this??? Dave

"I now realize that I just didn't know squat about carbo loading all those years, because the real secret wasn't discovered until 2002 and I didn't hear about it until last year.

This study by the University of Western Australia, which reads more like a science experiment than a running how-to article, proved you can increase the impact of carbo loading on glycogen levels as much as 90 percent. Then I validated the experiment at the last LA Marathon.

Here's what you do.

Eat lightly and normally the week before the marathon.
The day before your marathon, do a 3 minute, very-high-intensity speed workout in the morning. For me, that meant running two-plus all-out laps at the track, leaving me gasping for breath and really feeling the burn.
Consume 12 grams of carbs for every kilo of lean body mass spread over the next 24 hours. That's a HUGE amount of carbs. For my 150 pound body, that meant buying four 18-ounce cans of ABB Carboforce at 24 Hour Fitness and nursing them down during the course of the day (ten 12-ounce bottles of new Gatorade Carbohydrate Energy Formula would work as well).
If you wade through the study, you'll find the science of it is that your body responds to the all-out workout by getting ready to handle this stress again, i.e., it loads a ton of glycogen into your muscles. Yet the short duration of the workout means it has no impact on your readiness for the race the next day. And Carboforce isn't bad: it tastes like a really syrupy version of Gatorade.

While I must admit to feeling a little bit bloated at the starting line, I breezed past the free cellphone call area coming into downtown LA, where I had hit the wall in 2007, and felt strong all the way to the finish. My time was 23 minutes faster overall, and most of the improvement was in the last 5 miles, thanks to not hitting the wall. "

While the science may work out, the writer never mentioned if he trained harder, ran more miles in preparation for the marathon that may skew his study. I do not think his carb loading gimmick is what improved his time by 23 minutes, it was more likely that he ran more in training and this had a placebo effect.

For me, my priority in that last week is to STAY HEALTHY, I wouldnt risk running a 800m all out sprint and tweaking a calf or hamstring which I usually find to be extra tight leading up to a marathon.

If I ran 6-7 marathons a year, and could afford to test these things out I would give it a try, unfortunately im putting all my eggs in this disney marathon and cant afford a last minute injury or over bloated feeling at the line. I'll do what got me here.

 

[UNCBear24]

Does anyone know what is available at the water, food, & aid stations?