With Princess over we're next Star Wars fans! Trying to keep the excitement up, I'll throw a question to the crowd to try to get some action on this thread:
Are you doing a race during Star Wars weekend more because you're a Star Wars fan, or more because you're a general runDisney fan and don't really care about Star Wars, or because you love both running and Star Wars equally, or for some other reason? In other words, are you primarily a Star Wars fan who will run a race sometimes, or a runner who happens to have signed up for a Star Wars race?
For me it's both. I am definitely a runner, I run multiple half marathons a year, and have run a few marathons (all full marathons at Disney). But Star Wars was a HUGE part of my childhood. I was a kid when the original movies were released. I had all the action figures, and the Darth Vader head collectible holder for all said action figures. When Empire Strikes Back was released they had a guy in a Darth Vader suit at my local mall that you could get pictures with, like an evil Mall Santa. This was unprecedented for a movie release in the 1970s/80s. The hype was INSANE for that movie at that time. Of course I pestered my parents until they let me get the picture with Darth Vader. I never ran the Dark Side races because I wasn't motivated to travel for a race that was only about the bad guys. And not motivated to travel all the way to CA for a half marathon. So I'm excited to participate this year. I hope they keep the "Rival Run" theme going forward.