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Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon

OG Runner

OG Runner

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surfsupdon said:
I am East Coast. Apparently, the waiting room was available as early as 9am, and I entered the waiting room at 9:22a. But it did me absolutely no good.
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I know in this case that is did you no good, but how did you enter the waiting room that early?
I went to RunDisney and I could not get by the screen noting the races until much later.
 
Demarke

Demarke

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OG Runner said:
How did you get in at 9:22am? Do you live to the West? I did not get in until about 9:55am Eastern Standard Time.
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The pre-queue opened earlier than normal (usually it has opened at 9:45am), I joined it around 9:30am give or take a couple minutes and had the same results as the others here that didn't get through until everything was completely sold out (fortunately, I snagged a charity challenge bib, $600 more than regular registration, but at least it's for a good cause :)). I don't know how you saw the screen with the individual races (unless you had the URL for that and went directly there), the main page (rundisney.com) was completely dedicated to funneling people into the pre-queue waiting area when I pulled it up and it told you to come back later if you were looking for anything other than W&D registration.

Also different (I think), in the past, all browsers seemed to refresh pretty much simultaneously right at 10:00am and you'd soon see how long the wait times were for each. This time, I noticed the clock hit 10:00am and none of mine auto refreshed for 5-10 seconds (seemed longer), then one refreshed into the main queue, then a second or two later another, then a few seconds later another and so on. In the midst of this, I manually refreshed one window that hadn't auto refreshed and it immediately changed to the main-queue screen. This makes me think that it may be worthwhile to start furiously clicking the mouse to manually refresh one browser shortly before 10:00am until it lets you in. If it's slowly randomly auto-refreshing browsers to assign spots in the main-queue, that may help get an earlier slot in the future (and if it doesn't you can still have a few others open the regular way).
 
Rteetz

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OG Runner said:
I know in this case that is did you no good, but how did you enter the waiting room that early?
I went to RunDisney and I could not get by the screen noting the races until much later.
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The waiting room was open over an hour before registration time. No matter what time you enter the waiting room tho the queue is random and is assigned when registration actually opens at roughly 10AM ET.
 
surfsupdon

surfsupdon

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Rteetz said:
The waiting room was open over an hour before registration time. No matter what time you enter the waiting room tho the queue is random and is assigned when registration actually opens at roughly 10AM ET.
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And based upon the language that Disney used:

If you enter the waiting room early, you will be randomly assigned a place at 10am.

All who enter after 10am, will be first come first served AFTER the waiting room folk.

Which SHOULD mean, that absolutely nobody who signed in at 10a or after should have been able to register because I, who was in the waiting room, was unable to register.

However, there are many cases of people who logged in after 10 who were able to register.

So none of it makes any sense based off of Disney's own posted rules.
 
OG Runner

OG Runner

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Wow, given all of these accounts, for once I just got lucky registering for a RunDisney race.
I did do a small video, I need to figure out how to edit. I start it off with a shot of my computer
stating, "I think this is the hardest part of any RunDisney race."
 
the.dreamfinder

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OG Runner said:
Wow, given all of these accounts, for once I just got lucky registering for a RunDisney race.
I did do a small video, I need to figure out how to edit. I start it off with a shot of my computer
stating, "I think this is the hardest part of any RunDisney race."
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It is! I thought this would be an easier race to sign up for compared to, say, 2024 Disneyland Half Marathon.
 
surfsupdon

surfsupdon

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the.dreamfinder said:
Hasn’t been posted yet, but this org will drop charity bibs soon.

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It's great! But my question is, how do you secure the money to pay for the bib? I am only a HS teacher, I do not have a large social media platform or excess monies. As much as I want to run, I do not want to pay $1000 to run. How do you generate others to pay for the charity bib? I feel and see tnhat charities work for the social media darling, but how does it work for the normal person?
 
Rteetz

Rteetz

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surfsupdon said:
It's great! But my question is, how do you secure the money to pay for the bib? I am only a HS teacher, I do not have a large social media platform or excess monies. As much as I want to run, I do not want to pay $1000 to run. How do you generate others to pay for the charity bib? I feel and see tnhat charities work for the social media darling, but how does it work for the normal person?
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I don't think you need a huge social media presence. You start out with family and friends. Any little bit helps, $10, $25, etc. I would also suggest you put the amount the bib would have cost you anyways towards the fundraising. Lots of people will do Super Bowl pools or sponsor a mile type options too to raise money.
 
OG Runner

OG Runner

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surfsupdon said:
It's great! But my question is, how do you secure the money to pay for the bib? I am only a HS teacher, I do not have a large social media platform or excess monies. As much as I want to run, I do not want to pay $1000 to run. How do you generate others to pay for the charity bib? I feel and see tnhat charities work for the social media darling, but how does it work for the normal person?
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I understand exactly what you mean. I live in the Northeast and have always wanted to run the Boston Marathon. I am not quite fast enough to qualify. You can get a charity bib. They go for about $7,500. I see the charity bibs as a way to get into a race but a Disney registration is pretty high already, add the donations you need to get for the charity bib can make it too expensive. That is probably why not everyone is a RunDisney Club member.
 

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