people lying about estimated times or just jumping corral fences to get ahead
You think people are jumping fences?
I have consistently signed up for an appropriate time and then hurt myself. No lying needed.
Also, disney runs are generally intended to be fun, which means people are going to be taking it slow. Those who might win are in A and are at the very very front.
I have always thought they should have a Club RD lane in the 2nd corral and for the first half mile or so of the course for the people who will be walking.
"Walking" isn't just one speed. There's a wide variety of speeds inside of just walking.
Most run/walk participants start off running.
Not always true. And people like Jeff Galloway, who qualified for Boston with a run/walk, do a 15 second interval. A VERY fast 15 seconds, and a recovery 15 seconds, over and over and over. He suggested I do 30 seconds (I am nowhere near as overall fast as he is). I've also done a minute for each interval. Some go until they can't, recover, go until they can't, etc.
If walking that’s fine, we don’t care, just clog up the far right.
A reminder that unless rundisney tells slower people to "stay to the right" there's no reason to expect slower people to be on the right. They have said nothing about it for some years now, they have said "right", and they even had a year or two of "on the sides."
Also, since I'm slower but very mindful of others, I can watch things unfold in front of me that faster people have no idea of. I might have watched run/walk people going back and forth and back and forth for 5 minutes, getting caught by each other doing the same so that suddenly a walker is right smack dab in the middle without the ability to get over, and then a straight-runner will come up and be angry with that slower person choosing to be there, when there was NO choice at all. I've seen this countless times as I meticulously either stay all the way to the right or add miles on by meticulously shifting where I am.