Random question about marathon weekend...
I just got an email with my Princess Half results, and in the email was a discount code good for $20 off Marathon 2012 registration! (Not a giant discount, but it's something.) Have people gotten these in the past? I'm wondering if this is a new thing since registration was a little slow last year. :shrug: Or maybe they've been doing it all along and I just didn't know.
Marathon relay details...http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/event...n/index?page=walt-disney-world-marathon-relay
Possibly a Chip and Dale medal?
I think it's a cool idea but it might have been good to offer more distances to appeal to more people...I did a 5-person marathon relay once (distances ranged from 2.8 to 7.9 miles or something). I wasn't expecting Disney's marathon relay to just be 2 half marathons. :shrug: Thoughts?
I can't see Disney finding multiple relay points being cost effective. Admittedly, I don't really see the draw of being able to do half a marathon in a relay form the day after you could have just run a half marathon. But having lots of change points means lots more infrastructure, not to mention needing the space for change points. Which means more confusion, interruptions and delays for the regular guests. Also, their races tend to draw more out of towners (I think) than locals. And I can't see many people traveling just to do a short distance. I think they noticed this in dropping most of the shorter distance races in favor of more half marathons.
So we have Mickey, Donald, Goofy. Unofficially, Dopey.
What if you ran the half and then the relay? The Dumbo? That would be a sweet medal.
Took a pass on 2011 with plan of returning for 2012 marathon...we'll see what kind of registration pricing games they play to see if they are the same that have me on the fence for W&D...
That being said, plan is I'm doing marathon with DW doing 1/2 & a leg of the new relay...time to start rolling the pennies if we try to do that & W&D.:shrug:
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