Originally Posted By ksargen Whenever they move it to, I truly wish Disneyland would list things like this on their main calendar, so people could avoid them if they choose. As I read someone post in another website - I don't recall asking for a zillion people to wake me up with their screaming at 5:30 am under my hotel room window. It's not that I don't support the idea of these events, but I really don't think people should find out about them this way. *LOL* It would be quite fabulous if Disney could list what special events are going on while you're there, rather than playing the hide and seek game it is now to find out if there is some extra something going on while you're at the resort. The running events, the special days for X group, Grad Nights, etc...
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not sure what happened, but it turns out that Tink didn't fly at all during the race. And to make it even more confusing, none of the Pixie Hollow crew were anywhere to be found. Listening to the runners after the race, it sounded like everybody was just a little confused why there was no Tink at the Tink race (though there were plenty of runners in costume!) In WDW, all of the races are during times of the year that are traditionally quiet, and they use the races to generate more visits to the resort. DL seems to be taking the opposite approach. Instead of picking weekends that are difficult to plan a vacation for and are usually empty (like the weekend after everybody gets back from winter break), DL's races are now MLK and Labor Day weekends, which are traditionally among the busiest times of the year. I just don't get it. As for the date change, the other interesting aspect is that with the way the calendar works out, it's the weekend immediately after the WDW Marathon Weekend. While I didn't see a ton of people with the Coast to Coast medals yesterday, I bet there will be far fewer next year!
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall Ok, well at least I didn't miss her flying. There were a good thousand tinks running the race though! When they moved DL Half in September to Labor Day weekend after the first race, I was told Labor Day is their slowest holiday weekend because everyone has already gone home to get ready for school the week before, and with a lot of schools starting before Labor Day now. So they chose that weekend to increase attendance. Not sure about MLK weekend. I find it weird it's so close to the WDW weekend. If it were just a half, like Princess, it's ok, but with the full and Goofy, that's no recovery time. They need to decrease the size of the corrals, with more waves. Too much congestion in Corral A. A lot of people in A were too slow to be there, it was hard to run around people until mile 5. Btw, I only saw a few Coast to Coasts, where as in Sept. I saw lots of them!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Keep in mind that to earn the C2C for Tink, runners had to be at the WDW Marathon Weekend. To get it at the DL1/2, they also could have done the Princess race. With Tink so early in the year, it's also possible that many runners were using it as the first leg of their C2C, with the Princess or Wine & Dine for the second. I suspect that there will still be a lot more after the DL1/2, but this race really expanded the options for when to get the C2C.
Originally Posted By Kidz-n-k9s <The date is Jan 19, 2013. Isn't Arizona the week before?> Unfortunately, the Arizona RnR will be January 20th, 2013. Boo! Really, no Tink on the course?? How weird!! I really don't understand why they are moving it to MLK weekend. Oh well. I hope to do my first WDW race in a few years and would have to do the Dland Half and not Tink to get C2C. They really aren't thinking...
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall <... I hope to do my first WDW race in a few years and would have to do the Dland Half and not Tink to get C2C. They really aren't thinking...> In a few years, hopefully, they will have more DL options than the two races Disneyland Half is 62% full. I thought it would be a little higher after the race weekend. Maybe after Princess, if runners are using that as part 1 of C2C. Does anyone know the first year they did the Goofy Challenge? Was it 2005? My friend and I want to do the Goofy race again (and C2C), but we were thinking of waiting until 2015, for a special medal.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm about 99% sure that's when Goofy started, but not positive. While it definitely takes a lot of commitment, I really enjoyed doing Goofy this year, and hope to be able to do it at least every year through the 10th. (Also, if 2005 was the first race, then 2014 would be the 10th race, which would likely be the milestone, rather than the 10th anniversary of the 1st challenge)
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall Thanks! So then we would want to do 2014 for the special medal (if they have a 10th anniversary medal?) We were trying to figure it out. We did Goofy in 2009, but none of our stuff says which annual race it was. I haven't found much info online either :/ I guess we have a few years to figure it out...haha. How did you train for it? We trained with back to back long runs on the weekend, but I know now everyone does that. I'm curious how other people might have trained for it
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I basically followed the training plan from Jeff Galloway that was posted on the runDisney site. It was 30-45min on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with long runs on the weekends. The long runs got progressively longer, and many of them were scheduled back-to-back. I was pretty good about running 3 times a week, but I seldom did long runs as long as I was supposed to, and only did one or two of the back-to-backs. There were only one or two weeks scheduled for a huge time commitment (and one of those was Christmas...yah right), so it wasn't too bad on a weekly basis, but the training plan did start really early (I think in June or July). I don't know the years that the other races started, but this year they had a ton of "15 years" stuff for the Half, and next year is supposed to be 20 years for the full. I guess if you can find what year those races started, you'll have an idea of when they will celebrate Goofy's 10.
Originally Posted By VickiHD Finally back home after the long race weekend. I really enjoyed the race. Did not see Tink or friends anywhere which I found really odd. My time pretty muched stayed the same as DL 1/2 but I took pictures and really tried to take it all in. Loved all those crazy Red Hat Ladies giving their support. I also like how many runners dressed up in costumes and wings. I thought there was much more specators along the route thant the DL 1/2. which I think is great. DH and son had their own 1/2 marathon that day....trying to get around the course to ChEAR me on in 4 different spots was really challenging, but they did it. Disney really made it difficult to try and get "around" property and leaving after finishing to get to our off property hotel was another problem having to walk all around the block to get to Walnut and then Katella. Next year we'll stay on property. When are they opening registration up for next year???
Originally Posted By Kidz-n-k9s <<In a few years, hopefully, they will have more DL options than the two races >> I hope so. I just don't want one on yet another holiday weekend. My deluxe AP is blocked for Labor Day plus hotels are super high for the holiday weekend, and the Tink weekend is now in conflict with my local race (the AZ RnR). So come on RunDisney!! Make one available that I can make and not on a holiday/blackout weekend so the $150+ cost is easier to take. ;D <<Did not see Tink or friends anywhere which I found really odd>> I just find that really, really weird. <<The long runs got progressively longer, and many of them were scheduled back-to-back>> Are the long runs similar to the long runs you'd do for a full? Or do they make them longer? I'd like to Goofy one day when my kids are older and I have more time just to X off my bucket list.
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall Yeah, blockout thing stinks. I have the Deluxe pass, too. I know the Labor Day Monday is not blocked, but the weekend is When we trained for Goofy, we did the regular full training, but did half the distance on saturday, of what the sunday (regular long run) was. I've seen various schedules. I've used some of Galloways schedules, too, but I didn't for Goofy (but I'd probably recommend it-He has good plans for getting to the finish)
Originally Posted By -em Not only did Tink jump up a week but according to the ads after the princess 1/2 waiver- the WDW Marathon weekend jumped back a week to the 10-13th so seems like people will have to choose a coast.. Not sure I understand that logic (not that I knew too many people who ran both) -em
Originally Posted By FerretAfros This year, there were 5 weekends in January, so they had a bit of extra flexibility. Next year, due to the way the calendar works out, the WDW Marathon Weekend will be the second weekend (as it was this year), but due to the days of the week that end up being almost a full week later. Tink will be moved from the last weekend in January to the second to last weekend, supposedly due to the NAMM convention that takes over Anaheim annually. Looking at a calendar, it kind of makes sense; thinking about the actual logistics of it, it doesn't make any sense. >>Are the long runs similar to the long runs you'd do for a full? Or do they make them longer?<< THe long runs on Sunday (or Saturday if it was a weekend with only one long run) was about what you'd expect for a full. The runs (technically scheduled as walks) on Saturdays were usually about half of that distance. The schedule started very early, so I think that there may have been more long runs than normal, but for the most part it was quite reasonable. There was one weekend that was a little insane, by scheduling 13mi for Saturday and 26mi for Sunday, the weekend before Christmas. Needless to say, I didn't really follow too closely that weekend! Personally, I really didn't think that the full the day after the half was much worse than the other full I've run (which was in the rain for the first hour). In a way, it helped to be really sore at the start, so by splits were almost completely even the entire time (there was a 20sec variance from my fastest and slowest splits for the full). And somehow, my friend and I who did Goofy were less sore than my 2 friends who just did the full. I don't know if we had just trained better for it (doubtful, knowing what we all did) or what, but it was an unexpected side effect. Looking forward to Dopey 2013! : )
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If anybody is interested in running the DL1/2, but hasn't registered yet, you might want to start doing that. As of Feb 9th, it's at 79% of capacity!
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall I bet it will fill up more after the Princess Half next weekend, too!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Yah, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Princess registration, paired with people seeing how full it is now, fills it up. Add in the price increase at the end of the month, and I bet it will start filling up pretty quickly!
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall Oh! You're right, with the price increase, too! The race seems so far away hehe. I've got another half next week, and then a full next month. Now I'm waiting for Tinkerbell 2013 registration!
Originally Posted By VickiHD I am also waiting for the Tinker Bell 2013 registration!!!! I just hope for 2013 that the Kids Race will be done as well as this past one. It was much improved over the Kids Race that they have for the DL 1/2.
