Marathon Weekend 2022

[FFigawi]

Good morning, runDisney all-stars!

For this week's Sundays are for Disney, what is your favorite non-Disney race you've participated in and/or what races are on your bucket list?

Favorites:
Comrades
Two Oceans
Marine Corps
Dublin
IMFL

The List:
Boston (need to get older and not slower)
Mt. Desert Island
Medoc
London
Antarctica
IM Western Australia
Challenge Roth
Rocky 100

 

[SarahDisney]

For this week's Sundays are for Disney, what is your favorite non-Disney race you've participated in and/or what races are on your bucket list?

Favorite non-Disney races are the United Airlines NYC Half and Rangerstown 5K.
I don't really have a non-Disney bucket list these days, but I really wish Disneyland races would come back.

 

[camaker]

SAFD:
Favorite non-Disney Races
Badwater Cape Fear 51.4m
Chicago Marathon

Bucket List
London Marathon
Berlin Marathon
Boston Marathon
Keys 100

 

[shellott-hill]

SAFD:
Have only done one race outside of WDW.

Favorite non-Disney Race
Canmore Rocky Mountain Half Marathon.

Bucket List
Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris
Marine Corps

 

[happ]

SAFD

Favorite
Allen Mello NH 10 Miler
I'm calling this my favorite because it's the most memorable so far, aside from Disney. Race day was pouring rain and the course was mostly hills. I laughed out loud several times because the situation felt so ridiculous, but it was still fun and I somehow managed a personal best.


Bucket List (in no particular order)
Avenue of Giants
Big Sur
Monteray Bay
Garden of the Gods
Coastal DE Running Festival
Scenic Half Marathon
TD Beach to Beacon 10k
Grand Island Trail
Towpath
Run Crazy Horse
Belmar 5 Mile
Moab Trail
Kona
Maui

 

[Herding_Cats]

Good morning, runDisney all-stars!

For this week's Sundays are for Disney, what is your favorite non-Disney race you've participated in and/or what races are on your bucket list?

Fav. Non-Disney Race?
No clue. I have yet to do a race.

Bucket List:
Princess weekend (IN PERSON)
Dopey
Castle to Chateau

Outside of Disney races I don't really know what's out there.....big national things like Boston are never going to happen for me at my speed so those aren't even being considered.

Bayshore Marathon (since it's local)
Maybe something in Yellowstone? IDK what the altitude is like there though, so maybe not

Where else can you run through the Wisconsin countryside while listening to some guy play "Roll Out the Barrels" on an accordion?

Speaking of accordion music....my area has a small local Polka Festival that includes a slowpitch softball tournament and the outfield of one of the ballfields backs RIGHT UP to the polka tent. You can't hear anything out there except for all of the oom-pa-pas. Depending on how inebriated the outfielders are there is a fair amount of "dancing" that happens on the field. (Yes. For anyone who is not familiar with small-town slowpitch softball, it's usually more of a "beer league" thing and most of the teams have a least a few players that are drunk by 2pm, and if your team makes it to Sunday you can bet that half the team is going to be severely hungover ..... ESPECIALLY when the fields are a 2min walk from the beer tent.)

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

Good morning, runDisney all-stars!

For this week's Sundays are for Disney, what is your favorite non-Disney race you've participated in and/or what races are on your bucket list?

I haven't run a ton of races outside of Disney, but I absolutely loved Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon both times I ran it. Where else can you run through the Wisconsin countryside while listening to some guy play "Roll Out the Barrels" on an accordion?

Bucket List:
- Chicago
- Las Vegas
- New York
- Marine Corps
- A non-MW Disney race weekend

Have a safe and healthy week, everyone!

Milwaukee Lakefront was the marathon I ran! I really enjoyed it and I’d love to do it again one day if I can’t do the Disney World Marathon some day soon.

l also enjoyed the Big Ten 10K I did in Chicago in 2016. I always love the Milwaukee Brewers 10K because you get to run on the field, and the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon (I did the 5K) was awesome getting to go on Lambeau Field!

Bucket List:
-Dopey
-Boston (never going to happen at my speed! Haha!)
-New York
-Los Angeles
-One of the National Park series races

 

[jmasgat]

SAFD: For the two reasons that 1) It's my Hometown race, and 2) never in my life would I have ever thought I would run a marathon, let alone this one.......Boston. I should have appreciated my first time in 2011 more than I did (silly me made rookie mistake of trying to PR, which I didn't, but I still re-qualified for the following year). In 2019, I should have quit the race (I had a stress fracture in my hip and was in agony), but I bought the merch, and no way would I wear it if I didn't finish!

Bucket List: Looking for races that I don't "race", but rather "experience", and not longer than half, e.g. Dramathon in Scotland. I have my guaranteed entry (deferred from last year) for New York, so there's that too.

 

[hotblooded]

I have my guaranteed entry (deferred from last year) for New York, so there's that too.

Me too. I really, really hope we get to keep our guaranteed entry, because it’s probably my only shot to run NYC. It’s my hometown, and my dream race, but I moved away and can’t see how I’d get in again.

 

[MissLiss279]

Favorite non-Disney:
Route 66 Marathon

Bucket List (in no particular order)
Avenue of Giants
Big Sur

These two are on my bucket list!

The List:
Mt. Desert Island

I’m planning on running this one this year (hopefully)! It was deferred from last year.

I would also probably add NYC and London to my bucket list.

 

[PCFriar80]

SAFD:

Favorite:
Falmouth Road Race [right distance and great course]

Bucket List:

 

[DisneyParrothead]

I loved the RnR Las Vegas race. My only night race too.

Bucket list right now is just an in person race . I was signed up for the Cap 10k and it went virtual. Specifically I’d like to do the 10k at DLP.

 

[pluto377]

Favorites races
Other than Disney- nycm

bucket list-one of the national park races

 

[nekonekoneko]

I asked my wife, who's the runner.

Her favorite non-Disney races:
Broad Street 10 miler
Harrisburg Half
Ocean City Island to Island Half

Her bucket list:
NYC Marathon
Indianapolis Mini-Marathon
(This one has one lap around that city's most famous track)
Anything in person, like, anything!

 

[JAMIESMITH]

SAFD: I've only run The Magnolia Half Marathon (twice) because it is my hometown race. I'll be running a 10K in Hattiesburg MS next month (fingers crossed). I'd love to complete every half distance in my state. I also am dying to run at Disney. Then there's a Rock N Roll Series race, either NOLA or Savannah.

 

[NewYKRunner]

I have yet to do an official race. My wife did the Nike women’s half marathon in San Fran. Nike knows how to put on a show! She also did Dopey 2020 with a friend of ours. My wife and I did the Michelob Ultra virtual 10k this fall which donates 1 meal for every km ran.

Bucket List:
Hapalua virtual this April
Calgary full marathon this September
Honolulu marathon in December
Dopey 2023 maybe?
Las Vegas Rock N Roll half

 

[Kerry1957]

SAFD:
Favorites:
Run the Bluegrass (HM) in Lexington, KY
Fort2Base (10 nautical miles) in Fort Sheridan / North Chicago, IL
Des Plaines River Trail (Marathon), Lincolnshire, IL
Big10K, Chicago, IL

Bucket List:
Mini Marathon (HM) in Indianapolis, IN
Trail HMs in States I have not run in

 

[flav]

SAFD:
Non-Disney favorites:
- Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend
- JustRun Courses Gourmandes in général (des Érables, des Vignobles, des Vergers, des Microbrasseries) for their all inclusive approach. I have good memories of 5k with DD and DH and of Half alone.

Races bucket list:
- Any race, preferably with a medal when I am on a vacation somewhere, or that gives me an excuse to vacation there,
- NYRR Marathon (deferral from 2020),
- Boston if I can qualify one day,
- other majors,
- Disneyland or Disneyland Paris.

 

[Barca33Runner]

SAFD:

I’ve run the Indianapolis Monumental several times. It’s a good run. I’ve also run a bunch of Half Marathons in Cleveland. For Midwest cities they do about as well as they can but it’s not Disney.

I don’t really have any bucket list races. I don’t have any connection to the large races like Boston or New York (and the cities are about as interesting to me as Indianapolis and Cleveland). Berlin or London (or anything outside of the continental US) would be cool, I guess, but I’d rather just do a vacation. I’d have enough anxiety about logistics of an international trip that I wouldn’t want to put the logistical and performance anxiety of a race on top.

 

[Blue Caterpillar]

The athens marathon is my dream. I was planning on doing it this year, but I didn't think international travel would be back by November for sure. Here is hoping for 2022!