Marathon Weekend 2018

[LSUfan4444]

And, did I read this right...someone is compromising a list of bars that will be open on the course?

 

[Sailormoon2]

Well I just printed my Dad and his wife's waivers, and I don't know what she did when she registered but she's in the H. They are only running the 1/2. They are both Boston Marathoners, meaning they are FAST- My Dad's bib puts him in A! I'm going to have them look into it their active account, but I may end up having to drop back to H for that one race. Very unexpected as we figured they would be the ones dropping back to my corral.

 

[jmasgat]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 5k
Name (optional) - Maura
DIS Name - jmasgat
Costume - None
Corral - A
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - No
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back, I guess
Expected Pace - Easy 10mpm

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 10k
Name (optional) - Maura
DIS Name - jmasgat
Costume - None
Corral - A
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - No
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back, I guess
Expected Pace - Easy 10mpm

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Half
Name (optional) - Maura
DIS Name - jmasgat
Costume - None
Corral - B
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - No
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back, I guess
Expected Pace - Easy 10mpm

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Full
Name (optional) - Maura
DIS Name - jmasgat
Costume - None
Corral - B
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Maybe
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral -Front, if possible
Expected Pace - 9:30

 

[LSUfan4444]

Race - Full Marathon
Name (optional) - Adam
DIS Name - LSUfan4444
Costume - n/a
Corral - A
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Very possible. Monday is our Epcot day. I will try.
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - middle
Expected Pace - Im going to be running about 8:15/8:20 but will likely finish about 8:45 due to pictures and beer

 

[MissLiss279]

Race - Marathon
Name (optional) - Melissa
DIS Name - MissLiss279
Costume - SparkleSkirt
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - maybe, I’ll be in the race retreat ahead of time
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - middle
Expected Pace - 11ish

Race - Half Marathon
Name (optional) - Melissa
DIS Name - MissLiss279
Costume - SparkleSkirt
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - maybe, I’ll be in the race retreat ahead of time
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - middle
Expected Pace - 10ish

Race - 10k
Name (optional) - Melissa
DIS Name - MissLiss279
Costume - SparkleSkirt
Corral - C (probably)
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - front
Expected Pace - 9:30ish

Race - 5k
Name (optional) - Melissa
DIS Name - MissLiss279
Costume - SparkleSkirt
Corral - C (probably)
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - front
Expected Pace - 9:00ish

 

[Anisum]

All right. Time to do this. I'm running the first two with a friend and I'm more likely to stop on that one. The Half and Full I will probably run closer to the pace my training plan estimates. No real costumes but definitely colors.

Race - WDW 5k
DIS Name - Anisum
Costume - None, Probably wearing a shirt from my local running group
Corral - D/E
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle?
Expected Pace - 14:00-15:00 with stops

Race - WDW 10k
DIS Name - Anisum
Costume - None, will be wearing purple
Corral - D/E
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle?
Expected Pace - 14:00-15:00 with stops

Race - WDW Half Marathon
DIS Name - Anisum
Costume - blue with purple accents
Corral - F
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Front
Expected Pace - 12:15-13:00

Race - WDW Marathon
DIS Name - Anisum
Costume - Wearing Purple
Corral - F
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Front
Expected Pace - 12:45-13:15

 

[cavepig]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Marathon
Name (optional) - Jeanne
DIS Name - Cavepig
Costume - Wilbur (Goofy & Wilbur cartoon, basically a green grasshopper),
Corral - C
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Hopefully
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle (I guess)
Expected Pace - 10:30 (I think...)

 

[JClimacus]

I'd like to express my appeciation to @DopeyBadger , @rteetz , @Keels especially but also to all those on this forum who do the research and share their knowledge about race weekend on this forum. It really adds to the race weekend excitement for me. Hopefully I'll see you at the marathon pre-race meetup to thank you in person!

 

[camaker]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 5k
Name (optional) - Kenn
DIS Name - camaker
Costume - None (InkNBurn shirt unless it's cold)
Corral - A(?)
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle
Expected Pace - 10-11 min/mi

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 10k
Name (optional) - Kenn
DIS Name - camaker
Costume - None (InkNBurn shirt unless it's cold)
Corral - A(?)
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle
Expected Pace - 10-11 min/mi

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Half
Name (optional) - Kenn
DIS Name - camaker
Costume - None (InkNBurn shirt unless it's cold)
Corral - B
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle
Expected Pace - 10-11 min/mi

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Full
Name (optional) - Kenn
DIS Name - camaker
Costume - None (InkNBurn shirt unless it's cold)
Corral - B
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle
Expected Pace - 9-9.5 min/mi

 

[Beast2Prince]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Full
Name (optional) - Brett
DIS Name - Beast2Prince
Costume - None
Corral - B
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Maybe
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back
Expected Pace - 10:30-11:00

 

[funsizedisaster]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 5k
Name (optional) - Diana
DIS Name - funsizedisaster
Costume - Kevin (running with Russell @Sammiebuggie)
Corral - E/F?
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Front
Expected Pace - 14:00

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 10k
Name (optional) - Diana
DIS Name - funsizedisaster
Costume - Stitch
Corral - E
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Front
Expected Pace - 12:30

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Half
Name (optional) - Diana
DIS Name - funsizedisaster
Costume - Tweedle Dum
Corral - G
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back of the Front
Expected Pace - 12:30

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Full
Name (optional) - Diana
DIS Name - funsizedisaster
Costume - Dopey
Corral - G
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back of the Front
Expected Pace - 13:00

 

[Simba's Girl]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - 10K
Name (optional) - Heather (w/DD Skylar)
DIS Name - Simba'sGirl
Costume - Joy (Sky-Anger)
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? -Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Back (DD is only 11)
Expected Pace - 12:00

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM (for DH)
Race - Marathon
Name (optional) - Bob
DIS Name - DisneyDooDah
Costume - N/A
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - ?
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - ?
Expected Pace - 11:45

 

[croach]

For anyone staying, or has stayed, at Shades of Green, do they have their own buses for the marathon? Does it make more sense to walk to the monorail at the Polynesian?

Shades of Green has buses. We used those and had no problems when we stayed their previously. I wouldn’t do the extra walking to the monorail.

I’m pretty sure that Shades of Green shared a bus with the Poly and Grand Floridian last year.

 

[cavepig]

The tracker looks to have gone live https://track.rtrt.me/e/WDW-WDW-2018#/tracker...
okay now it works to set up alerts

 

[Princess KP]

I'd like a submit a change for my expected pace to this instead because while I'd like to keep my running pace somewhere around 12ish, it'll actually end up being whatever pace this is, as those are my real goals for the race.

I'm also a spreadsheet person (Hello, my name is Bryana, and I'm also addicted to Spreadsheets ) and I made a tab in the trip planning spreadsheet that's just dedicated to marathon timing, for my family to reference for spectating. I think it's safe to say that I'm a little obsessive that I made this over a month ago (also because I couldn't have something not be in 5 minute increments LOL).

@bryana thanks for this! I'm in E as well and should be going at the same pace as you. Looks like I will be able to make it to EE at park opening. Getting excited!!

 

[ZellyB]

I’m pretty sure that Shades of Green shared a bus with the Poly and Grand Floridian last year.

It was back in 2013 when we rode them and my recollection was that we didn't stop anywhere else on the way there (although could just be nobody else had gotten on before us) but we did stop at Poly for sure on the way back and likely Grand Floridian. I just don't remember.

 

[baxter24]

Marathon weekend DIS List FORM

Race - 5k
Name - Lauren
DIS Name - Baxter24
Costume - N/a
Corral - B?
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of Corral? Middle
Expected Pace - 10:00-10:30

Race - 10k
Name - Lauren
DIS Name - Baxter 24
Costume - N/A
Corral - B?
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the Corral? Middle
Expected Pace - 10:00-10:30

Race - Half Marathon
Name - Lauren
DIS Name - Baxter 24
Costume - N/A
Corral - F
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? No
Front, Middle, or Back of Corral? - Middle
Expected Pace - 12:00

Race - Marathon
Name - Lauren
DIS Name - Baxter 24
Costume - No
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of Corral? - Middle
Expected Pace - 10:45ish

 

[PrincessV]

So I wound up in G... G for "Good grief, this corral is ginormous!" It'll be interesting to see how many waves they do and how quickly they send them out. For DS, where we had 7,000 of us in F, they did 6 waves and it spread things out pretty well. For W&D with 6,000 in F, they only did 3 waves and it did not spread out. So IDK - I don't think it'll be a disaster, but it may not be ideal.

As for getting to the front of the corral... nope. Not for me. I don't need the few extra minutes as a buffer and I have no interest in starting my race ticked off at humanity - plenty of time for that to occur over 39.3 miles!

Based on past practice with the mini-waves, I guess they'll gain at least six minutes on the end of corral G, another 2-4 minutes before H starts, and then another 6-8 minutes before the balloon ladies cross the line.

I agree - that's right in line with what I've experienced at DS and W&D. And I started in F for both, so I had plenty of time to notice, lol!

Thanks - so 14-18 minutes. We can make up more time by moving faster than the 16 minute per mile pace, but I have never been back there.

Is it so crowded that we shouldn't expect to move faster than a 16 minute/mile pace? Also, how long are the character lines that far back in the corwds?

If we can get 5 or 6 character photos along the course, my wife will be happy. Think that is reasonable?

I've started at the back of F (2nd to last corral) for DS and W&D and generally run a 13:00-14:00 mile at WDW... Very rarely was I totally unable to maintain my pace. Little pockets like Cone Alley outside MK, or the sidewalks at WWOS, got tight and I just slowed to the prevailing speed, but I've always been able to go my preferred speed through most of the course. 5-6 pics is totally reasonable! I took more than that in the full last year and never came near the sweepers. You all should be fine!

Thank you for the reply Dis Yoda! I will try that. I have a feeling this is all set in stone, and there's no turning back from the placements. Would I visit runner relations online or on-site at Disney? My proof was submitted directly thru Active.com, as part of my overall registration.

Yep, go to RR with printouts of your registration showing what you entered and of your PoT results. They are generally happy to correct their own mistakes.

Does anyone know the logic in reducing the corals? I have to think it will be much more difficult managing the crowds into 2 ginormous corals rather than splitting them up to smaller numbers. This is my first rundisney race so I am trying to get my head around managing 27K people at the start of the race. What are the advantages/disadvantages doing it this way?

I don't know, as rD hasn't said, but I suspect it's to cut down on complaints of, "My BFF and I submitted the same time - why am I in E and she's in F?!" Instead of spreading 6,000 people with the same estimated pace across 3 corrals, they now lump us all into one and release it in waves.

 

[AbbyJaws2003]

Marathon Weekend DIS List FORM
Race - Half
Name (optional) - Abby
DIS Name - AbbyJaws2003
Costume - Dark pink rawthreads shirt, black sparkle skirt, black hat (I think a hat at least)
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race Meetup? - Potentially...
Front, Middle, or Back of the corral - Middle to back
Expected Pace - 12:30 - 13:00

Thanks @DopeyBadger for putting this together!!!

 

[ZellyB]

Marathon weekend DIS List FORM

Race - 5k
Name - Gisele
DIS Name - Zellyb
Costume - N/a
Corral - ??
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of Corral? Not sure yet - maybe front
Expected Pace - 11:00ish (depends on how much we stop for pictures)

Race - 10k
Name - Gisele
DIS Name - Zellyb
Costume - N/A
Corral - ??
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? - Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of the Corral? Not sure yet - maybe front
Expected Pace - 11:00ish (depends on how much we stop for pictures)

Race - Half Marathon
Name - Gisele
DIS Name - Zellyb
Costume - N/A
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of Corral? - Not sure yet - maybe front
Expected Pace - 12:30 (depends on how much we stop for pictures)

Race - Marathon
Name - Gisele
DIS Name - Zellyb
Costume - No
Corral - D
Planning to attend the Pre-race meetup? Yes
Front, Middle, or Back of Corral? - Not sure yet - maybe front
Expected Pace - However long it takes. Will be stopping for many pictures, maybe EE and definitely some beer