Marathon Weekend 2022

[camaker]

Looking at the guide and it looks like it hasn't been completely updated. There's the aforementioned error with one of the dates, still some mentions of Wine and Dine, and while they've updated the spectator info for the first three races, there's nothing for the marathon, which I'm expecting will be mostly similar to past years. This is also just going to be a pet peeve of mine but they mention that buses will be running well after the time that they say participants must be at Epcot by (4 am for the first two races, 3:30 for the half and full, buses will be running until 4:30 am all days). Feel like they would have been better off saying that they strongly recommend getting there by a certain time.

‘Keep in mind that RunDisney hasn’t released the guide yet. People are looking at a work in progress draft that has been sleuthed out by looking at a predictable url.

 

[fatmanatee]

‘Keep in mind that RunDisney hasn’t released the guide yet. People are looking at a work in progress draft that has been sleuthed out by looking at a predictable url.

Not sure if it's been posted on FB but they announced that it's up on Twitter earlier this morning.

 

[camaker]

Not sure if it's been posted on FB but they announced that it's up on Twitter earlier this morning.

My bad, I was looking on the website, which hasn’t been updated from its “check back here” verbiage. I guess it’s true what they say about constants in life being death, taxes, and lack of attention to detail by RunDisney.

 

[Barca33Runner]

HS is a bad joke. Almost like they are embarrassed to have us there.

The problem with HS is that Toy Story Land and Galaxy’s Edge are both too winding and narrow to run through even when the parks are closed. The slow downs because of chokepoints would cause massive complaints. I can’t even imagine what a mess they’d be if they tried to run the Marathon through while the park was open. Unfortunately, the park will never be fit for a rD event to go through either one of those areas and there aren’t many other options in that park other than Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard.

 

[fatmanatee]

The problem with HS is that Toy Story Land and Galaxy’s Edge are both too winding and narrow to run through even when the parks are closed. The slow downs because of chokepoints would cause massive complaints. I can’t even imagine what a mess they’d be if they tried to run the Marathon through while the park was open. Unfortunately, the park will never be fit for a rD event to go through either one of those areas and there aren’t many other options in that park other than Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard.

Yeah I had brought this up a week ago, definitely hopeful that they might be able to do something bigger with HS. If they can't do it with a shorter race, where park guests aren't as big a concern, it's probably just not feasible.

 

[Tall Todd]

Splash Mountain at MK goes down for refurb January 10th.

 

[Herding_Cats]

But splash goes down for refurb in the beginning of January every year....

 

[luv2cheer92]

I just started looking at the course maps. My thoughts:
They release the course maps after you've paid so that they already have your money and it's too late to decide otherwise (says grumpy old me).
Blizzard Beach should be in quotes, since it is really the BB parking lot (near as I can tell)
HS is a bad joke. Almost like they are embarrassed to have us there.
Two loops through Epcot? I don't recall that from before, but OK, but I'd have rather put in the miles with actually seeing BB and more of HS.
AK - People had mentioned jumping out of the race to ride a ride. If there was one where I was inclined to do that, it would be Expedition Everest. And at this time, EE is scheduled to go down for maintenance on Jan 4th. Just dang.

The two loops through Epcot was there in 2020.

 

[Barca33Runner]

Yeah I had brought this up a week ago, definitely hopeful that they might be able to do something bigger with HS. If they can't do it with a shorter race, where park guests aren't as big a concern, it's probably just not feasible.

I was thinking that if there was some way to get the course to the backstage area near the transition between TSL and GE (where they were winding the Smuggler’s Run queue for a while) they could have a split off where they could send half the field through one and half through the other. This would presuppose that it was a relatively small field and the park was closed.

Of course, this would still open the door to all types of griping from people who wanted to run through GE and were forced to go TSL (and vice versa) so even if it was plausible I don’t think rD is very incentivized to make it happen.

 

[GreatLakes]

It looks like someone beat me to making Garmin GPX tracks for 3 out of 4 races for the weekend.

5K
10K
Full

 

[btk2333]

The Link to claim my waiver showed up on my rundisney account, but when I enter my email address I get an error right now- assume it will be available soon

 

[Kerry1957]

The Link to claim my waiver showed up on my rundisney account, but when I enter my email address I get an error right now- assume it will be available soon

I was able to sign my waiver, but there did not seem to be any bib number included.

 

[Tall Todd]

Between myself and DH we are running in everything except for the 5k. We are planning on getting MM so we can get all the race pics (and pics from our park day.) I'd be up for doing a share if anyone is interested.

I'm interested in this. Lemme know

 

[btk2333]

I was able to sign my waiver, but there did not seem to be any bib number included.

For Wine and Dine we did not get our corals* until packet pickup

*edited to correct for corals vs. bib numbers

 

[camaker]

For Wine and Dine we did not get our bib numbers until packet pickup

Bib numbers were definitely included with the waivers for Wine & Dine. People were posting bib numbers as early as a couple of days before Halloween and @DopeyBadger was compiling them to see if the numbers corresponded to PoT/pace estimates. The actual start group assignments weren’t available until the Expo, though.

 

[kps7795]

I don't know if I am misreading the Guide or not, but is there not tracking available for the marathon? The guide reads that tracking is available for friends and family for the 10K and Half Marathon participants. Why would it not be available for the full marathon? Is there some other form of tracking that I am missing for the full marathon so that my family can follow along with me?

 

[fatmanatee]

I don't know if I am misreading the Guide or not, but is there not tracking available for the marathon? The guide reads that tracking is available for friends and family for the 10K and Half Marathon participants. Why would it not be available for the full marathon? Is there some other form of tracking that I am missing for the full marathon so that my family can follow along with me?

It should be. The most plausible explanation is that RD hasn't updated that page to include marathon information. It's an issue elsewhere too.

 

[GreatLakes]

I don't know if I am misreading the Guide or not, but is there not tracking available for the marathon? The guide reads that tracking is available for friends and family for the 10K and Half Marathon participants. Why would it not be available for the full marathon? Is there some other form of tracking that I am missing for the full marathon so that my family can follow along with me?

That would make no sense. The longer the race the more sense it makes to track runners. I took a look at the spectator page and there is no information at all for the marathon. It looks like maybe that is still a work in progress.

 

[camaker]

I don't know if I am misreading the Guide or not, but is there not tracking available for the marathon? The guide reads that tracking is available for friends and family for the 10K and Half Marathon participants. Why would it not be available for the full marathon? Is there some other form of tracking that I am missing for the full marathon so that my family can follow along with me?

There will be tracking. There always is. My guess is that they just haven’t updated that section of the guide from the Wine & Dine verbiage, where 10k & half were the long races.

 

[DopeyBadger]

For Wine and Dine we did not get our bib numbers until packet pickup

Bib numbers were definitely included with the waivers for Wine & Dine. People were posting bib numbers as early as a couple of days before Halloween and @DopeyBadger was compiling them to see if the numbers corresponded to PoT/pace estimates. The actual start group assignments weren’t available until the Expo, though.

Point of clarification. The waivers for Wine and Dine were around 10/20 without a bib number (link). Runners learned their bib number from their "Expo Pass" on 10/29 (link). Which all occurred before the Expo (packet pickup) on 11/4 where starting group information was revealed. So MW is following the same trend with no bib numbers on waivers, but it should be assumed that the Expo pass will have them (according to the Guide that will be on/around 1/3/22 for MW). As well as the Runner Tracking (11/1) had bib number info and more.

But given this realization, I might need to put the DIS list together before that. Because that doesn't give a ton of time. I think given we've got six starting groups per group it should be easy enough to guess what starting group everyone is in based solely on registration estimated time. Where I'm going to have to take more of a stab at it is the start time end of it, because I was going to use the bib data information to determine that with more accuracy (was hoping to get a general idea of number of participants and rough number within each starting group).