Marathon Weekend 2019

[SarahDisney]

Isn’t there a half marathon martin Luther king weekend?

When they had races at Disneyland, Star Wars Light Side was often MLK weekend. But the West Coast races are on a hiatus for right now, so nothing that weekend this year.

 

[Bree]

I think this version of the chart should be easier to read and interpret.

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So if the stars align for my race in October I can possibly bump myself up to C??? I don’t know if I should be excited or if I just put a whole lot of pressure on myself.

 

[SarahDisney]

Keels was right about the quick response. Here's what I got:

Sarah,

Thank you for reaching out about the WDW Marathon Weekend and proof of time. We had our verifier do the calculation for you and the results are as follows:

10 Mile with a finish time of 1:45:00 = estimated 4:58:00 Marathon Finish
Half Marathon with finish time of 2:22:00 = estimated 5:00:00 Marathon Finish

We wish you magical miles as you prepare for your upcoming events.

Thank you,
Track Shack Events on behalf of runDisney

So ... there's some data for the math. Off by a few seconds, but close to what we expected from @DopeyBadger's chart.

 

[roxymama]

Ugh, a measly 22 seconds away from A based on 10k time.

You may still get in A. The corrals have not been officially set yet.

 

[DopeyBadger]

Keels was right about the quick response. Here's what I got:

Sarah,

Thank you for reaching out about the WDW Marathon Weekend and proof of time. We had our verifier do the calculation for you and the results are as follows:

10 Mile with a finish time of 1:45:00 = estimated 4:58:00 Marathon Finish
Half Marathon with finish time of 2:22:00 = estimated 5:00:00 Marathon Finish

We wish you magical miles as you prepare for your upcoming events.

Thank you,
Track Shack Events on behalf of runDisney

So ... there's some data for the math. Off by a few seconds, but close to what we expected from @DopeyBadger's chart.

Looks pretty darn close to me. A 4:57:08 and 5:00:12 is what I came up with, with the assumed 1.08 conversion. So the chart isn't perfect, but I don't assume it to be. But, I believe it's a reasonably close representation.

 

[rteetz]

None of my WDW races are good enough times so looks like I probably will be signing up for the Brewers Mini.

 

[SarahDisney]

None of my WDW races are good enough times so looks like I probably will be signing up for the Brewers Mini.

DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rteetz]

DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My only worry is I haven't run more than 10 miles since January. I have a base but the distance isn't there right now. And its just under 2 months away now.

 

[SarahDisney]

My only worry is I haven't run more than 10 miles since January. I have a base but the distance isn't there right now. And its just under 2 months away now.

Honestly? You'll have to get more serious about training over the next 2 months. But I think you should be able to do it. When I ran my half in January I was definitely undertrained (I got one 10 miler in before the race, but before that I hadn't done 10 miles in about 6 months), but I was still able to finish in an okay time. My next half was about two months later, and I shaved almost 10 minutes off my time. If you're going to get serious about training starting now, you can get yourself to a good place for the race.

 

[rteetz]

Honestly? You'll have to get more serious about training over the next 2 months. But I think you should be able to do it. When I ran my half in January I was definitely undertrained (I got one 10 miler in before the race, but before that I hadn't done 10 miles in about 6 months), but I was still able to finish in an okay time. My next half was about two months later, and I shaved almost 10 minutes off my time. If you're going to get serious about training starting now, you can get yourself to a good place for the race.

I think I could definitely PR since my only half are Disney halfs and have character stops and such. I would be happy with anything under 2:30. I believe my best half is 2:35ish. I know I can finish just don't want to be undertrained.

 

[jennamfeo]

My only worry is I haven't run more than 10 miles since January. I have a base but the distance isn't there right now. And its just under 2 months away now.

What @SarahDisney said. Do it. Get to training. Stop eating fair food and not sharing.

 

[rteetz]

What @SarahDisney said. Do it. Get to training. Stop eating fair food and not sharing.

I only have 3 fair days left so that won't be too hard

 

[jennamfeo]

I think I could definitely PR since my only half are Disney halfs and have character stops and such. I would be happy with anything under 2:30. I believe my best half is 2:35ish. I know I can finish just don't want to be undertrained.

This makes me feel like we could stay in close proximity to each other during the full and eat our McDonalds together!

 

[rteetz]

This makes me feel like we could stay in close proximity to each other during the full and eat our McDonalds together!

I am definitely up for that!

 

[KSellers88]

Seriously considering going all out for my half next weekend to try and make the potential corral A cutoff. The worst that could happen is I completely bonk, but I have a half PR from April of this year so I think I'd be okay with that....hmmmm....

 

[jennamfeo]

Seriously considering going all out for my half next weekend to try and make the potential corral A cutoff. The worst that could happen is I completely bonk, but I have a half PR from April of this year so I think I'd be okay with that....hmmmm....

I have the same feels going on. I'm gonna shoot for Corral B and if all else fails I know I will end up in Corral C. I just wanna see if I can do it!

 

[SarahDisney]

For all of you trying to get an early corral ... remember that the party corrals are further back. We have more fun! #CorralE #MaybeD

 

[Princess KP]

For all of you trying to get an early corral ... remember that the party corrals are further back. We have more fun! #CorralE #MaybeD

Yep! At our pace, we can get all kinds of pics at MK and still hit EE right before it opens!

 

[rteetz]

For all of you trying to get an early corral ... remember that the party corrals are further back. We have more fun! #CorralE #MaybeD

Well I am just trying to get out of G...

 

[rteetz]

Yep! At our pace, we can get all kinds pics at MK and still hit EE right before it opens!

Yep, my first WDW Full I got to EE at like 9:03.