- for those running the virtuals, are you planning on dressing up? If so, what?
- if you’ve worn costumes for past races, what have been your favorites?
- if you’ve never raced in a costume, what’s your favorite one you’ve seen someone else in?
Congrats
@lhermiston on your NYC Marathon! Great job creativity incorporating NYC into your experience. By any chance did you see a rat eating a slice of pizza?
I run in comfort costumes if you will. More of an inspired by idea, if you will. Mostly this means that I will run in a costume provided that almost all of the elements of the costume are really tech material so I'm not dealing with major issues. I'm usually far more conservative for the half or marathon distances.
Over the years I've run a few races in this sort of costume. 2012 Wine & Dine Half as Prince Phillip. 2016 Star Wars Light Side 10K as Darth Vader fanboy Kylo Ren. I ran in all black tech clothing, the Darth Vader mouse ears beanie for warmth, and Kylo Ren's lightsaber. 2017 Star Wars Dark Side Half as Luke Skywalker training on Dagobah, 2017 Avengers Half as Batman being trained by Yoda with a Batman tech shirt and the Yoda backpack. 2018 Star Wars Dark Side 5K as BYU Jedi, Dark Side 10K as Jedi Knight Prince Phillip. Prince Phillip shirt, cape that read "Once Upon a Dream in a galaxy far, far away. . . .", and of course a lightsaber. Ran the half in a Darth Vader tech shirt.
I have purchased a shirt off etsy as a possible running costume for the virtual Princess Half, but we'll see if it passes the test for an acceptable running costume.
Favorites I've seen include Wayne Campbell and Garth Vader from Wayne's World for a Star Wars race and Elsa Fett complete with a Han Solo frozen in carbonite.
SAFD: I’m not a big costume person. The only time I’ve run in “costume” was at the inaugural SWDS races where I ran in Stormtrooper and Darth Vader tops. It didn’t really feel like running in costume, though, as they were UA compression tops. I just want to run in something comfortable and enjoy the environment.
I have seen some pretty impressive costumes on course at Disney races, though. My favorite has to be the guy who ran the marathon as Lumiere in a gold full body suit carrying what looked like full size cake carriers as his candlesticks. I think it was during one of the warm, humid marathons, as well. Quite impressive!
I saw somebody running the
Disneyland Half one year in a full on Lumiere costume that looked like it was right out of the Beauty and the Beast stage show at DHS. Suffice it to say, he may not have finished since it was way too hot to be running in something like that. When I saw him he was in the aid station as I slowly went by.
There are so many great ones that people do. I always am amazed by costumes I’d never even think of.
That's what amazes me most. The person dressed as Uncle Orville at one of this year's Marathon Weekend races stands out.
SAFD:
My homage to Nikki Sixx and Cinderella - "Sixxerella" - for a PHM 10K was pretty epic and fun! Every outfit I've come up with for the SW DS races has been really fun: Imperial Officer V, Krennic, TinkerVader, Palpatine's Biggest Fan.
I saw a TinkerJedi once during the Star Wars races at Disneyland. I really want to see this TinkerVader costume.