Marathon Countdown, who's in?

[A Big Kid]

Today marks exactly 10 weeks away from the start of Marathon Weekend 2012. Keep up that training everyone!

18 miles yesterday. I'll be ready, Freddy!

[DizRunner]

I can feel the excitement!

In my eyes when it comes to running there's nothing better than running under the monorail as it just left the Contemporary. To see the Contemporary all lit up at 6:30am on the right and then up ahead seeing Space Mountain all lit up. Beautiful...just beautiful!

And for you other runners who do Disney regularly, it's looking like Splash Mountain will be open Marathon Weekend! WooHoo!!

[brdavis]

Someday...

We're headed down, with DW and DS (14) doing the half, myself and DD (11) doing the 5K, and our youngest DD (7) doing the Mickey Mile. Right now the youngest could actually do the 5K in about 40 minutes, but... well, we have to wait for the age limit. Besides, this way she won't be beating me as yet .

It's hard to train with kids if both of you want to run. I'd like to do the Goofy someday...

--
Brian Davis

[dnickels]

10 days left! No slacking off now!

[Melanie]

Getting excited about our family marathon weekend. At this point, the 5K will be a brisk walk for me though.

Good luck to everyone in their wind down training!

[floridamom]

Marathon weekend last year we met up with old friends at Disney and were inspired by all the runners, and now I find myself starting to pack for the trip to run my first Half!

Weather forecast is looking pretty steady- short runs this week should help determine what I will wear on race day.

If all goes well, my (not-so) secret plan is to persuade DH to join me for the TOT 13K this fall!

[Melanie]

It's here! Good luck to everyone and be sure to post back here with your experiences. I'll be in the MK bright and early Sunday morning to cheer everyone on. Can't wait for that! Have fun everyone!!

[A Big Kid]

It's here! Good luck to everyone and be sure to post back here with your experiences. I'll be in the MK bright and early Sunday morning to cheer everyone on. Can't wait for that! Have fun everyone!!

Look for me. I'll be the one running.

[Patricia]

Good luck, everyone!

Have fun.

[wildernesslady]

Good luck to all runners and supporters. Have a great weekend.

[badkitty]

Thanks all for the encouragement! I finished my first 1/2 marathon and there were still folks behind me. What a fantastic time. I was taking full advantage of the photo ops. I even have a great pic of me and Mickey at the finish line. I think I'm hooked. I'm going to sign up for the Disneyland 1/2 and try for the coast to coast challenge medal! What a cool race! I hope everyone else had a great time and did well.

[dnickels]

Had a great time in both races and improved my times from last year so I had a blast!

Talked to another wheelchair racer after the full marathon and he had quite a story. Where the race course passes through the Magic Kingdom you go down main street and then make a right at the hub and head towards tomorrowland. Where you make that turn there's a curb and a cut in the curb - both painted the same dark grey color. In the low light he didn't see where the cut was (there were no cones to guide people towards the curb cut there) and he hit the curb, blew out a tire and bent the rim on one of his wheels.

Now he was carrying spare tubes, but the impact blew out the actual tire so he was kind of stuck. He managed to find some Disney maintenance people who took him through an elevator down into the tunnel below the park, patched up his tire with lots of electrical tape and he was able to get back out on the course and finish the race! These were maintenance CMs who had nothing to do with the race other than they happened to be at work while it was going on so that was a pretty neat story to hear.

[badkitty]

Wow! What a great story. I'm glad he wasn't hurt from the impact.

[brownie]

He managed to find some Disney maintenance people who took him through an elevator down into the tunnel below the park, patched up his tire with lots of electrical tape and he was able to get back out on the course and finish the race! These were maintenance CMs who had nothing to do with the race other than they happened to be at work while it was going on so that was a pretty neat story to hear.