huskies90
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I am a WDW guy, not a Disneyland expert but we stayed at Disneyland Hotel last summer and had lots of fun hanging at Trader Sam's for a few drinks.
The Running Thread - 2019
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camaker
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
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- May 8, 2015
I've only been out there a couple of times, but I'd suggest the clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl as a can't miss food! I miss the days when WDW had their clam chowder in a bread bowl. In addition, the DL clam chowder is significantly more flavorful than the current WDW incarnation. You can get it in both California Adventure (and see them making the sourdough, to boot) and DLP (near HM).
KevM
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- Apr 5, 2018
If you add in a 3K fun run that week at one of the resorts you can get to 50.46 miles.
Keith Tyger
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- Feb 8, 2016
Darn, We ran last year and we unable to this year. The race supports a great cause, the hospital grounds are cool and I can walk to the start from my house!Quick race report....which I only signed up for this week and wasn’t on the schedule!
It was a trail 5k to support a local organization the provides home furnishings to homeless families getting back on their feet.
Held on the grounds of an old state hospital in our town - gorgeous property filled with buildings boarded up. Fun fact - site of films like Shutter Island and the upcoming movie The New Mutants.
The grounds extend down to the Charles River, which eventually runs into boston, and has a series of wooded trails that are popular for walkers, runners, and dog walkers.
Our running club had a booth and a friend and I ran with our daughters (ages 6 and 7). We ran most of the way, there was copious complaining, one large snake, and it was capped off with a fabulous finish for the girls (they ran it in to a lot of cheers, and it was pretty much the cutest thing ever). And they tied for 3rd place in the under 12y age group.
All in all a great day - and a fun way to kick off Mother’s Day weekend.
StacyStrong
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ATTQOTD- no, but it looks like a girl I went to highschool with is doing "30 for 30." 30 races this year for her 30th birthday. I liked that idea.
jennamfeo
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MaxPass is a MUST. Worth every penny.
The Corn Dog Castle at DCA has a cheddar cheese stick that is soooo amazing.
Bengal Barbecue at Disneyland is my favorite Quick Service location. All of the skewers are delicious.
Cocino Cucamonga Mexican Grill at DCA is my second favorite Quick Service location.
Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe at DL is my third favorite Quick Service location.
You have to get a Churro. It's the rules.
Jack Jack's Cookie Num Nums located as you are exiting The Incredicoaster is a once a trip must stop for me. It's just a really delicious chocolate chip cookie.
World of Color and Fantasmic Fast Passes are both available in the MaxPass app now.
The first thing to fill up at Rope Drop in Disneyland is Peter Pan because no FP option.
If you want to ride Radiator Springs Racers, I suggest getting a FP as soon as possible because a) they go quick and b) it breaks down a lot!
You can make the most of your MaxPass if you pay attention to when you can get a new FP. I usually set an alarm on my phone for when you can make your next selection. We rode 21 rides in one day doing that with a 6 year old in tow.
I love mobile ordering. Usually I will order our food at DCA while we are at DL about to walk over just to save time.
That's all I can think of. Hope this is helpful! Haha.
cburnett11
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- Jun 19, 2007
Super helpful, thanks!
gjramsey
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- Dec 18, 2009
Are these still separate from ride fast-passes?
jennamfeo
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Great question! Yes, they are still separate from ride fast-passes and will not effect that at all.
Disney at Heart
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- Apr 26, 2014
ATTQOTD: Let's see, our next anniversary is the 40th. My next birthday is my 65th. Yeah, I think I'll run those miles on those days. NOT. 
(I could add the decimal -- 4.0 and 6.5. That's doable.)
(I could add the decimal -- 4.0 and 6.5. That's doable.)
KSellers88
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- Oct 22, 2015
ATTQOTD: I did 2.9 miles for my last day in my 20s last year, but that is all so far. Not sure I can handle 30+ miles since my birthday is in August and I might die in the heat. LOL.
OldSlowGoofyGuy
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- Jan 4, 2013
ATTQOTD: Too old for that! Something like a 10K in my years in minutes might work.
I did run the Myrtle Beach marathon on my birthday one year and told EVERYONE!
I did run the Myrtle Beach marathon on my birthday one year and told EVERYONE!
Dopey 2020
Mission accomplished, 48.6 magical miles
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ATTQOTD not exactly but my first 5K ever was on my 20th anniversary, now later this year I turn 48 and start next year off with Dopey (48.6)
I actually thought about that when I was deciding I had to do it, if I remember right last year there was someone who was turning 50 and ran 1.4 miles on expo day to celebrate the weekend with 50 for 50
I actually thought about that when I was deciding I had to do it, if I remember right last year there was someone who was turning 50 and ran 1.4 miles on expo day to celebrate the weekend with 50 for 50
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mtnmjd
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ATTQOTD: Quite a timely question of the day for me.
After doing my first Dopey this year with my friend, the question of "do you think we could do all this running in just one day?" came up.
So, within a week of being home we both signed up for the Rock the Ridge 50 Mile Challenge with the idea of running a 50 miler in the year I turn 50 being the "logic" behind the decision.
We completed our "run" last weekend so I'll take this moment to give a quick recap................
Training for Dopey had already given us a base to work off and I found what looked like a workable training plan to be as ready as possible in four months. It had us running 3 days midweek ranging from 3-12 miles and both days on the weekend with a max of 31 miles on one Saturday at the end of March. While I had a bit of trouble meeting some of those longer midweek runs as I run before work and simply didn't have the time, we kept to the schedule as best we could with 120 miles in Jan, 140 in Feb, 190 in March and 165 in April. It was a lot of running for our busy lives and having to run multiple weekends that included 16 miles on Saturday and 26-28 on Sunday really put a burden on our wives.
The one wrinkle to our plan was we had two friends get caught up in our excitement and decide midway through to join our team. Unfortunately one of them injured themselves in a frantic effort to pile on the mileage and the other didn't have the time he thought he had to train properly. One topped out at 19 miles and the other 15.......yet both were focused on running regardless....a recipe for disaster.
So, as the race approached I half expected my two friends to drop out but both seemed determined to run.
At the prerace pasta dinner and packet pickup, we stuck out like sore thumbs. Our short and stocky builds among the tall and lanky (and bearded?) competitive ultra runners. It seemed the runners were split in two groups, those looking to run full throttle for 7-8hr times or those looking just to somehow survive. We were somewhere in the middle at the moment.
We packed our dropbags that night with multiple changes of clothes, rain gear, tubes of glide and enough food to trek the entire Appalachian trail.
After the RunDisney-like 3:30am wake up call we headed over to NY's Mohonk Presserve. Our hydration packs fully stocked we nervously waited and wondered how the heck we were all going to cover the most mileage we ever ran in day and laughed at how the other two were going to run there first marathon, 50k and 50 miler all in one day.
After a nice rendition of America the Beautiful, the gun went off and the 600 runners were on the move.
The first few miles went off the board easily in a cool foggy morning with the two less trained runners leading the charge. We were all smiles at mile 5 and hit our first real aid station at mile 10 with everyone smiling despite climbing almost 1,000' between mile 2-5. We snacked on some PB&J's and m&ms and quickly headed back up the mountain before the inevitable happened.
At mile 12 just prior to another lung busting ascent, our previously injured friends hamstring forced him to a near walk and then finally at mile 15 a complete walk.
We slowly trudged along knowing the only way out was at the dropbag station at mile 24.6. We ran a little, walked a little, waited for him to catch up for a bit and did our best to keep him in the right mindset and relatively good spirits.
We eventually made it to the dropbags with a surprisingly good cushion before the cutoff time. At this point our injured friend tapped out, give us a hug and headed to shuttle bus.
My under-trained friend decided he wanted to continue so we agreed we would stick together and run as much as he could just as long as we didn't jeopardize not hitting any of the cutoff times.
After a change of clothes, a bit of soup and a potato we continued on. At roughly the 26 mile mark the race headed up to it's highest point gaining another 1,300 feet in 5 miles. That elevation gain really took a toll on us. My feet started to swell and become painful at 33 miles (my longest ever distance) but I wavered from feeling terrible to feeling like I could tick off a few 9 min miles. My Dopey friend and I did intervals most of the time but kept an eye over our shoulder to make sure we didn't completely lose our other teammate. We took time to enjoy the spectacular views waiting for him to catch up.
We finally finished our ridge loop and strolled back to the bag drop where I once again changed clothes, put on a fresh pair of shoes and packed our headlamps as light was beginning to fade.
When my friend finally joined us at the aid station I half expected him to pack it in and jump on the shuttle put he announced he was 'finishing this thing if it was the last thing he did" (there was a bit more profanity).
So we left the last full aid station with the sun beginning to set, some very sore feet and a little over 12 miles to go.
At this point we made the decision to stay together so nobody would have to finish alone and walk the woods by themselves after dark.
We hiked along and watched the rock climbers finishing their day as the sun set and we headed deeper into the preserve. Just as we started losing light, I heard twigs snapping and as we turned a corner I spotted a mother black bear and her three cubs high atop a tree. We quickly took a few blurry bear silhouette photos and moved along energized by this unique experience.
At this point night had fully set upon us and we were ready to be done but not before another uphill grind on what my friend quickly dubbed "that stupid loop" which ground our pace to a crawl.
In the dark, miles seem to take forever and it really became a bit of a quiet death march for 5 or 6 miles until we were able to sense the finish line after coming off the mountain and into the farm lands.
The three of us finally limped across the finish line after 16 hours and 45 minutes. Not nearly the time I had hoped but I was glad my friend gutted it out and I was thrilled to have traveled 50 miles shoulder to shoulder with these two guys.
While I was hoping to be about 4 hours quicker, it was a grueling race with better than 40% DNF rate.
After enjoying a burger and beer at TGiF, we limped out into the parking lot agreeing "never again". Yet after some of the aches and pains subsided a couple days later the talk quickly changed to shaving a few hours off next years time.
We are not certain we are doing it again as the training is a huge burden on our families, but as we look back on the funny, difficult, beautiful and daunting moments of this challenge the urge to try again is there.
So 50 miles before i turned 50....check
50 miles the year after I turn 50......TBD
After doing my first Dopey this year with my friend, the question of "do you think we could do all this running in just one day?" came up.
So, within a week of being home we both signed up for the Rock the Ridge 50 Mile Challenge with the idea of running a 50 miler in the year I turn 50 being the "logic" behind the decision.
We completed our "run" last weekend so I'll take this moment to give a quick recap................
Training for Dopey had already given us a base to work off and I found what looked like a workable training plan to be as ready as possible in four months. It had us running 3 days midweek ranging from 3-12 miles and both days on the weekend with a max of 31 miles on one Saturday at the end of March. While I had a bit of trouble meeting some of those longer midweek runs as I run before work and simply didn't have the time, we kept to the schedule as best we could with 120 miles in Jan, 140 in Feb, 190 in March and 165 in April. It was a lot of running for our busy lives and having to run multiple weekends that included 16 miles on Saturday and 26-28 on Sunday really put a burden on our wives.
The one wrinkle to our plan was we had two friends get caught up in our excitement and decide midway through to join our team. Unfortunately one of them injured themselves in a frantic effort to pile on the mileage and the other didn't have the time he thought he had to train properly. One topped out at 19 miles and the other 15.......yet both were focused on running regardless....a recipe for disaster.
So, as the race approached I half expected my two friends to drop out but both seemed determined to run.
At the prerace pasta dinner and packet pickup, we stuck out like sore thumbs. Our short and stocky builds among the tall and lanky (and bearded?) competitive ultra runners. It seemed the runners were split in two groups, those looking to run full throttle for 7-8hr times or those looking just to somehow survive. We were somewhere in the middle at the moment.
We packed our dropbags that night with multiple changes of clothes, rain gear, tubes of glide and enough food to trek the entire Appalachian trail.
After the RunDisney-like 3:30am wake up call we headed over to NY's Mohonk Presserve. Our hydration packs fully stocked we nervously waited and wondered how the heck we were all going to cover the most mileage we ever ran in day and laughed at how the other two were going to run there first marathon, 50k and 50 miler all in one day.
After a nice rendition of America the Beautiful, the gun went off and the 600 runners were on the move.
The first few miles went off the board easily in a cool foggy morning with the two less trained runners leading the charge. We were all smiles at mile 5 and hit our first real aid station at mile 10 with everyone smiling despite climbing almost 1,000' between mile 2-5. We snacked on some PB&J's and m&ms and quickly headed back up the mountain before the inevitable happened.
At mile 12 just prior to another lung busting ascent, our previously injured friends hamstring forced him to a near walk and then finally at mile 15 a complete walk.
We slowly trudged along knowing the only way out was at the dropbag station at mile 24.6. We ran a little, walked a little, waited for him to catch up for a bit and did our best to keep him in the right mindset and relatively good spirits.
We eventually made it to the dropbags with a surprisingly good cushion before the cutoff time. At this point our injured friend tapped out, give us a hug and headed to shuttle bus.
My under-trained friend decided he wanted to continue so we agreed we would stick together and run as much as he could just as long as we didn't jeopardize not hitting any of the cutoff times.
After a change of clothes, a bit of soup and a potato we continued on. At roughly the 26 mile mark the race headed up to it's highest point gaining another 1,300 feet in 5 miles. That elevation gain really took a toll on us. My feet started to swell and become painful at 33 miles (my longest ever distance) but I wavered from feeling terrible to feeling like I could tick off a few 9 min miles. My Dopey friend and I did intervals most of the time but kept an eye over our shoulder to make sure we didn't completely lose our other teammate. We took time to enjoy the spectacular views waiting for him to catch up.
We finally finished our ridge loop and strolled back to the bag drop where I once again changed clothes, put on a fresh pair of shoes and packed our headlamps as light was beginning to fade.
When my friend finally joined us at the aid station I half expected him to pack it in and jump on the shuttle put he announced he was 'finishing this thing if it was the last thing he did" (there was a bit more profanity).
So we left the last full aid station with the sun beginning to set, some very sore feet and a little over 12 miles to go.
At this point we made the decision to stay together so nobody would have to finish alone and walk the woods by themselves after dark.
We hiked along and watched the rock climbers finishing their day as the sun set and we headed deeper into the preserve. Just as we started losing light, I heard twigs snapping and as we turned a corner I spotted a mother black bear and her three cubs high atop a tree. We quickly took a few blurry bear silhouette photos and moved along energized by this unique experience.
At this point night had fully set upon us and we were ready to be done but not before another uphill grind on what my friend quickly dubbed "that stupid loop" which ground our pace to a crawl.
In the dark, miles seem to take forever and it really became a bit of a quiet death march for 5 or 6 miles until we were able to sense the finish line after coming off the mountain and into the farm lands.
The three of us finally limped across the finish line after 16 hours and 45 minutes. Not nearly the time I had hoped but I was glad my friend gutted it out and I was thrilled to have traveled 50 miles shoulder to shoulder with these two guys.
While I was hoping to be about 4 hours quicker, it was a grueling race with better than 40% DNF rate.
After enjoying a burger and beer at TGiF, we limped out into the parking lot agreeing "never again". Yet after some of the aches and pains subsided a couple days later the talk quickly changed to shaving a few hours off next years time.
We are not certain we are doing it again as the training is a huge burden on our families, but as we look back on the funny, difficult, beautiful and daunting moments of this challenge the urge to try again is there.
So 50 miles before i turned 50....check
50 miles the year after I turn 50......TBD
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