Marathon Weekend 2020

[Dopey 2020]

Up at 2:30, now less than an hour until we board in Hartford...
I’ll relax a little once I’m there with bib in hand

 

[Baloo in MI]

After an insane drive to Detroit, so glad I left early, I am at the gate to get on the plane. Must have snowed most of the night and was snowing the whole drive. A bit scary, no real lanes to decipher, just kept the car between the median and the trees.... Give me Orlando! Safe travels to everyone.

 

[steph0808]

Safe travel to everyone going down today!

My body woke me up at 5:34 and wouldn't let me go back to sleep. Guess I'm just practicing for tomorrow's early flight and Friday's early journey to DHS to get a RotR boarding group!!

 

[Barca33Runner]

This RoTR system is an absolute joke.

 

[LSUfan4444]

Ugh! Sorry, but I’m no help. My Garmin 645 hasn’t worked right since the last software update.

Some Garmin/watch tips heading into race weekend. Make sure you've got everything uploaded to Garmin connect and then delete all the activities on your watch. Maybe you've never experienced it but there is a maximum amount of data the watch can hold and when it gets full, its full and stops "recording" data. And it can even happen during a run. Also, if you don't remember when you've changed the battery on your heart rate monitors or food pods, do that now. If it goes out during a run/race, you will lose all that data and as valuable as training data is...race day data is super important for improvement and progression.

 

[LSUfan4444]

Anyone else catch the “Tier 1 Pricing Year-Round for available runDisney Races**” notation under Silver membership? Any guesses as to what rD is going to do?

I've done probably ten WDW Marathon weekend events over the years so forgive me on the ignorance here....has/are Run Disney events always had tiered pricing or is that something new for 2020?

 

[Dopey 2020]

I've done probably ten WDW Marathon weekend events over the years so forgive me on the ignorance here....has/are Run Disney events always had tiered pricing or is that something new for 2020?

It’s always been the same price, even get discounts sometimes if you wait but I’m guessing they are going to change to early/late registration to encourage early sellouts or more $$ if people wait

 

[camaker]

I've done probably ten WDW Marathon weekend events over the years so forgive me on the ignorance here....has/are Run Disney events always had tiered pricing or is that something new for 2020?

It’s always been the same price, even get discounts sometimes if you wait but I’m guessing they are going to change to early/late registration to encourage early sellouts or more $$ if people wait

I can’t remember whether they were doing tiered pricing when I started doing RunDisney events in 2016 or not and then dropped it. They have already implemented tiered pricing for Star Wars and Wine & Dine, though.

 

[camaker]

Some Garmin/watch tips heading into race weekend. Make sure you've got everything uploaded to Garmin connect and then delete all the activities on your watch. Maybe you've never experienced it but there is a maximum amount of data the watch can hold and when it gets full, its full and stops "recording" data. And it can even happen during a run. Also, if you don't remember when you've changed the battery on your heart rate monitors or food pods, do that now. If it goes out during a run/race, you will lose all that data and as valuable as training data is...race day data is super important for improvement and progression.

This may have been the case for older Garmin models, but it doesn’t seem to be the case now. Per the Garmin 230/235 and 935 user manuals, if the watch history gets full, the oldest data is overwritten so you won’t lose data from the current run. Activities uploaded to Garmin Connect aren’t affected by the overwrite. If anyone is worried about their specific model, look up your user manual and check the section on “History”.

 

[Z-Knight]

queue at 8:25am

 

[lhermiston]

Let’s do this, folks.

 

[1lilspark]

I've done probably ten WDW Marathon weekend events over the years so forgive me on the ignorance here....has/are Run Disney events always had tiered pricing or is that something new for 2020?

I think they did before I started running and just started again with Star Wars this year (I normally just do 10Ks and those sell out within hours so doesn’t effect me)

queue at 8:25amView attachment 463602

This makes me anxious for November between the villains theme and Club Disney Early Access (think I’m gonna pre order what I can even if it means no AP discount)

 

[ANIM8R]

I've done probably ten WDW Marathon weekend events over the years so forgive me on the ignorance here....has/are Run Disney events always had tiered pricing or is that something new for 2020?

I know for certain there was tiered pricing for the WDW marathon in 2013 (my first Disney) because I signed-up for Goofy before the next price increase point.
I can't remember if/when there was tiered pricing after that because I signed-up as soon as registration opened for the following years because I was hooked on runDisney!!

 

[jmasgat]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this (search does NOT let you sort results chronologically), but if you are trying to link your bib to photopass via website and getting error message that it's not a valid photopass ID, try using the MDE app instead. I finally tried that and it worked no problem. (Cue the billionth comment about Disney IT!)

@flav @WelshMorgan92 .....all the practically perfect people are staying at Pop! Will join that crowd on Friday.

 

[Z-Knight]

the queue has quadrupled.. or more at 9:20am

 

[FFigawi]

the queue has quadrupled.. or more at 9:20amView attachment 463620

That's insane! There's no Disney merchandise which would tempt me enough to be part of that queue.

 

[Kerry1957]

the queue has quadrupled.. or more at 9:20am

I wonder what percent are runners and what percent are eBay resellers....

 

[hotblooded]

That's insane! There's no Disney merchandise which would tempt me enough to be part of that queue.

Kingdom Hearts Donald half marathon gear would, but because it doesn't exist and never will... same.

 

[Leia's Mom]

I am very confused. I love the expo. Don't get me wrong. But what are they getting in line for? My bib will not change. I love some good running merchandise, but I don't know what they have until I go and buy what I see. Is there some limited edition thing that I am going to be sad for my entire life not having gotten? If so, oh well . ..

 

[Mickey Momma]

I wonder what percent are runners and what percent are eBay resellers....

My thoughts as well.