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Also want to thank you for starting this thread. Any good rookie guides? I've been to Universal a bunch of times but never HHN and hopefully this is the year I can make it down. We definitely want to do all the houses and was thinking of springing for Express Pass, even though we plan on a...

Bummer that I missed it all these years when it was better. Still, I hope this year is decent. Either way, it will be fun to see it for the first time. I'm sure it will beat the Halloween events at the local parks.

Why was last year mediocre? I've never been (yet), so I don't really have a frame of reference. I do plan on going this year though, so I hope it's a good year!

RACE - Dopey NAME - Tom DIS'er name - BikeFan Costume/Clothing - weather-appropriate running clothes (I'm boring like that) Estimated Pace/Finish/POT from Registration - 8:00 Club runDisney Platinum? - No Pre-Race Meet-up? - Maybe Front, Middle, or Back of starting group - usually middle. Early...

Some friends are checking into their resort on the 31st and aren't planning on going into the parks that day. Any suggestions on events or things to do to celebrate the 31st at the resorts? They'll be at Old Key West but will also have a car. Any special events happening at Disney Springs on...

We just got back and did EPCOT EEH on 12/6. We were able to get a VQ for GOTG twice - once at 7AM for 'regular' park hours and once in the evening for EEH. On the app, it said the VQ would open at 6PM for EEH, but right at that time, it said the VQ was already full, which seemed impossible - I...

Congratulations! Great recap only made better with dog pics. All race reports should include dog pics.

That's one of my favorite MW memories, running one of the impromptu half marathons that morning in 2017. We were staying at the Boardwalk Villas and I saw a Facebook post on some rD group about meeting up to run around the lake since the 'official' half was cancelled. I hadn't actually planned...

I'm a year-round runner living in Virginia, so I'm used to everything from hot and humid running in August to running in the 20's in January. Because Disney races are always fun runs for me and never target races, I'd rather be comfortable waiting forever in the corrals than on the actual...

Thanks! A friend in my run club has run over 200 marathons, so 50 doesn't seem like *that* many, but it's still pretty exciting, especially for a late-onset runner like myself. I ran my first in 2012, and to be coming up on 50 just over 11 years later is a little stunning. I'd have never...

SAFD: Training is going fantastic. I was able to hit a BQ-5:00 at Atlantic City in Oct., so I can take every marathon from now until Sept. relatively easy. We just got back from Marshall University Marathon in WV, and that went very well. My wife ran the half and I did the full, and we met a...

Congratulations to everyone running MCM yesterday. My wife and I volunteered at the expo on Friday and at the start village race morning, and then spent the rest of the day cheering on our son and our running club friends. It was definitely a tough day out there, and we saw a lot of very tired...

Sorry to hear! Good luck healing up and getting Dopey-ready!

$$$, I'm sure. The old expo location, the DC Armory building, was nothing fancy, but at least it had Metro rail access. National Harbor is much nicer but does not have Metro rail access, which any local will tell you is key for any big event around here, since traffic can be a disaster at any...

SAFD: Like I so many others here, I recognize that cross-training is an essential part of a healthy and effective training program, but I just never do it. Just no time right now. I really, really miss cycling (see my username, picked WAY back when my bikes weren't gathering dust in the...

SAFD: Regarding injuries, I'm 53, so something is always a little sore or achy or whatever. Most of my running buddies are in the 45+ group, with one in his 60's, and we joke that as long as the limb is still attached, it's fine. At this point, I just ignore it and keep running. It usually...

SAFD: I've never done a solo trip, but I've really enjoyed some of our recent trips which have just been my wife and me. Of course we love our kids dearly and have many magical memories of trips with all four of them in the past and hope to have more in the future, but they're all in college or...

For all you Berlin runners, check out the Breakfast Run the day before the race. It's finally back to its original (pre-COVID) course, from Charlottenburg Palace to the Olympic Stadium. It's a 6K shakeout run which actually finishes on the track at the Olympic Stadium, allowing you to cross...

I've read Boston just gives jackets, and still gets enough volunteers that they have to turn people away. There's a huge amount of community pride in the Boston area for that race. I did the 2018 Boston in that horrible Nor'easter storm, and the volunteers were still out there in force in the...

As I tell my run club, you don't have to run the marathon, you get to run the marathon. For some reason, I get a lot of eye rolls with that. :P