Unofficial Hercules Challenge

[Texas84]

Credit to Orlando Attractions Magazine. 71 miles, six parks, 11 days. Do the Dopey then go to DLR for the three Tinker Bell races. If it was official I'd consider it. What do you think? $$$ aside...

 

[Maryssa*]

I definitely saw people over the weekend that did this! Lots of Dopey shirts everywhere. Still wonder why they didn't have a "challenge" for Tink 10k+Half though.
But mmmm a Hercules medal would be the best

 

[Ariel484]

If $$$ weren't an issue, I'd totally do it. But it is, so I won't.

 

[mufasa0505]

I did the marathon then the Tink 10k and half. There were a lot of Dopey people at Tink. I'd do it all for a Herc medal!

 

[dreamfinder]

Still wonder why they didn't have a "challenge" for Tink 10k+Half though.

I still think it was due to the fact they were letting people register for the Tink Half when they registered for the Princess Half. And at that point, they hadn't announced the 10k. If they added the challenge after that point, what do they do? Give all of those people first crack at the challenge before opening it up to the public? Or just a certain number? To avoid ing any more people off, I think they took the easy way out, and just held off on announcing a challenge until next year.

 

[FerretAfros]

I did Dopey and then followed it up with the Tink 10K and Half, and definitely was not the only one. I would have done the 5K too, but I didn't want to burn the extra vacation time to get out to California a day earlier. It was fun to see how many people had made the cross-country trek; most of the people I talked to weren't even local to WDW or DLR

As for the lack of combination medal at Tink, according to one rD source, they only want to have one 10K+13.1 combination on each coast. For Marathon Weekend you can run the exact same 10K and Half as the Glass Slipper Challenge, yet you won't get anything extra for it. From the chatter I heard, nobody seemed upset about that, but everybody was in a tizzy about the setup with Tink. I would be pretty surprised if they add a combination medal to Tink in the future (at least without changing the race distances)

 

[monorail81]

I'd like to to a 10k + Half challenge during marathon weekend. I am not ready for the Goofy or the Dopey, but i could do a mini version...

 

[Texas84]

Still waiting for that Intercontinental Challenge.

 

[Katherine]

In the same boat as @FerretAfros did Dopey Challenge and the 10k and Half at Tink. Super fun! Interesting that they only want one 10k+13.1 challenge on each coast. Seems odd.