Disney Runners - On your mark - Get set...

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 12:18 pm

I am signed up for my first Half-Marathon, and my DW is doing the Goofy Challenge

(she amazes me) in January 2010.

Are any other Subsonics going to be there as well?

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 12:30 pm

Good luck to you and your DW! We did the 1/2 in '05! Would love to make it back again, I need to earn another Duck!

Let us know how it goes!!!!

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 12:51 pm

Let us know how it goes!!!!

Will do Boilerbabe! I have done two half-marathons in training so far, so maybe I won't embarrass myself during the race

. You two have a great trip. You and Boilerdude have a lilikoi juice, or a dole-whip float, or a Mainstreet bakery cinnamon roll, (this is starting to look bad...) for my wife and me!

Happy (Holidays) Landings

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 2:03 pm

I will be down there for that week. My friend is running in the marathon with her sister.

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 2:30 pm

Yea! Will you be cheering or dodging runners in the park?

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 2:51 pm

Probably a little of both. I will be hanging out with her husband while she and her sister run. We'll probably be at the Boardwalk to watch them go by.

MmeLeota · Post by **MmeLeota** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 2:51 pm

I am not a runner and I am only somewhat familiar with DL's 1/2 marathon in the fall, what is the Goofy's Challenge? Just curious...

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 2:57 pm

The Goofy Challenge is a half-marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday (back to back). That's 39.3 miles in two days! Now you do get three medals if you finish, a Donald medal for the half, a Mickey for the full and a Goofy for doing both.

My Wife has run each separately for the last two years. She really wants that Goofy medal

MmeLeota · Post by **MmeLeota** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 3:02 pm

Holy crap!!!! I'm tired just reading about it! Good luck to you both! I hope she gets her Goofy medal...what an accomplishment!

disneydreamer58 · Post by **disneydreamer58** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 4:10 pm

MmeLeota wrote:Holy crap!!!! I'm tired just reading about it! Good luck to you both! I hope she gets her Goofy medal...what an accomplishment!

LOL MmeLeota, I am with you, I needed oxygen after reading that post

WithSpirit, good luck I hope your wife does well!!

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Tue 08, 2009 4:22 pm

WithSpirit, good luck I hope your wife does well!!

Thanks, MmeLeota and disneydreamer58. She has been training for three years for this (it all started with her first half-marathon) and this was after three surgeries (both knees, one foot and another broken foot). I will make sure she sees your messages.

Can you tell I am a proud husband?

cccmouse · Post by **cccmouse** » Dec Mon 21, 2009 4:47 pm

I won't be running but my wife and I will be down there at this time. This explains why it was so hard to get a room for that Saturday night.

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Mon 21, 2009 9:41 pm

Yes, the runners take a LOT of rooms

- there were 45,000 of us last year (for all the races)

. After the races we don't smell too well

, and we will be eating most of the food at all of the restaurants, but if you can put up with these things - you are welcome to join us.

Ahhh...there is nothing like WDW in January...sigh

elizabethswann · Post by **elizabethswann** » Dec Tue 22, 2009 2:24 am

I bid you both good luck! I would do it since I need to get in shape soon but I wouldn't last long.

Joe90 · Post by **Joe90** » Dec Tue 22, 2009 11:56 am

withspirit wrote:I am signed up for my first Half-Marathon, and my DW is doing the Goofy Challenge (she amazes me) in January 2010.

Are any other Subsonics going to be there as well?

I will be one of the volunteers manning the first/Last water stop for the half

(I volunteered for this so I wouldn't be tempted to go Goofy)

I am running the Marathon on the Sunday

Best of luck to both of you.

The things we do to get a Mickey shaped piece of metal

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