Run, You Dopes
Sep. 24th, 2024 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenThe WDW Marathon Weekend course maps are out. I think I'll casually take a look at the Facebook group and see what everyone's mad about this year.
Let's see:
Parking lot laps at Blizzard Beach - we're familiar with this one. Since we no longer run around ESPN we've got to pick up miles somewhere. The water parks are usually closed that time of year so this is an easy place to have us run around and set up food and water tables. Also BB has a couple of sets of bathrooms.
EPCOT is the same as last year, I think. Around the World Showcase to start, then out to the highway past The Seas. Back into EPCOT for the last mile looks like same as last year - we don't stay in the park that long because it will be open for guests at that point.
Magic Kingdom - this is different! Perhaps I do "Disney Adult" wrong, because I like it when things change. Anyway, we still run up the highway along the monorail line, but once we're inside the Mouse House, we are going to circle the park the opposite way of what we normally do. We get to run through Adventureland, which I've never done, then through Frontierland, etc, through the castle, then out through Tomorrowland. This is likely because demolition will already be starting on Rivers of America, so we won't be able to exit the park through that back gate.
Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios look about the same as previous years - by the time you get to these locations, they'll be open for guests, so while Disney wants you to be able to get your park photo ops in, they also don't want runners taking up too much walkway space. It looks like we still run past the elephant and rhino barns, so we get to smell the magic there.
The narrow foot path between EPCOT and HS that's usually the bane of my running existence should actually not be super crowded that late in the race. Last year it seems like there were quite a few of us, but we weren't elbow to elbow. We don't exit EPCOT by Mexico which is good and bad. No margaritas = bad. Not needing to run past several large dumpsters = good.
The start time has been moved up significantly, which Fox and I actually like. Starting earlier means finishing earlier. Disney says they've done this to give runners more time in the parks. We'll obviously be needing to go to bed even earlier but I think on the whole that it's a good change. Gets us slower runners out of the sun a little earlier.
Oddly enough I can't find maps for Wine & Dine Weekend, but they're probably the same as last year.
Let's see:
Parking lot laps at Blizzard Beach - we're familiar with this one. Since we no longer run around ESPN we've got to pick up miles somewhere. The water parks are usually closed that time of year so this is an easy place to have us run around and set up food and water tables. Also BB has a couple of sets of bathrooms.
EPCOT is the same as last year, I think. Around the World Showcase to start, then out to the highway past The Seas. Back into EPCOT for the last mile looks like same as last year - we don't stay in the park that long because it will be open for guests at that point.
Magic Kingdom - this is different! Perhaps I do "Disney Adult" wrong, because I like it when things change. Anyway, we still run up the highway along the monorail line, but once we're inside the Mouse House, we are going to circle the park the opposite way of what we normally do. We get to run through Adventureland, which I've never done, then through Frontierland, etc, through the castle, then out through Tomorrowland. This is likely because demolition will already be starting on Rivers of America, so we won't be able to exit the park through that back gate.
Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios look about the same as previous years - by the time you get to these locations, they'll be open for guests, so while Disney wants you to be able to get your park photo ops in, they also don't want runners taking up too much walkway space. It looks like we still run past the elephant and rhino barns, so we get to smell the magic there.
The narrow foot path between EPCOT and HS that's usually the bane of my running existence should actually not be super crowded that late in the race. Last year it seems like there were quite a few of us, but we weren't elbow to elbow. We don't exit EPCOT by Mexico which is good and bad. No margaritas = bad. Not needing to run past several large dumpsters = good.
The start time has been moved up significantly, which Fox and I actually like. Starting earlier means finishing earlier. Disney says they've done this to give runners more time in the parks. We'll obviously be needing to go to bed even earlier but I think on the whole that it's a good change. Gets us slower runners out of the sun a little earlier.
Oddly enough I can't find maps for Wine & Dine Weekend, but they're probably the same as last year.
