What absolute hackery!
For the Goofy Challenge, at the expo, they had 39.3 shirts (Full 26.2 mi. and Half 13.1 mile marathons added together) that stated
I DID IT!
on them. My dad wanted one REALLY BAD! He was also 3 days away from finishing the second leg of the race and 2 days away from running the first leg. When the half finished... THEY WERE SOLD OUT. The second leg wasn't even run yet. What bullcrud!
The race was already WAY overloaded with participants. To the point that you were not even able to run the first HALF of day one and the first 6 miles of day two because of the clumping.
Most marathons end their clumping by the end of the first or at worst second mile. Then you can't even get the finisher shirt for finishing???
Seriously, they could have printed another 5 THOUSAND of those shirts and sold them EASILY. The shirts cost about $3-4 for Disney to print. They sell them for $26. Basically if they only sell about 800 of the 5 thousand, they alread break even. Plus the good will enough for finishers to actually BUY the finisher shirt.
I put the emphasis on BUY because every other marathon out there GIVES YOU a finisher shirt. Disney charges $26 for them. The demand was there (trust me, there were plenty of people asking about them) but Disney drops the ball again.
For the Goofy Challenge, at the expo, they had 39.3 shirts (Full 26.2 mi. and Half 13.1 mile marathons added together) that stated
I DID IT!
on them. My dad wanted one REALLY BAD! He was also 3 days away from finishing the second leg of the race and 2 days away from running the first leg. When the half finished... THEY WERE SOLD OUT. The second leg wasn't even run yet. What bullcrud!
The race was already WAY overloaded with participants. To the point that you were not even able to run the first HALF of day one and the first 6 miles of day two because of the clumping.
Most marathons end their clumping by the end of the first or at worst second mile. Then you can't even get the finisher shirt for finishing???
Seriously, they could have printed another 5 THOUSAND of those shirts and sold them EASILY. The shirts cost about $3-4 for Disney to print. They sell them for $26. Basically if they only sell about 800 of the 5 thousand, they alread break even. Plus the good will enough for finishers to actually BUY the finisher shirt.
I put the emphasis on BUY because every other marathon out there GIVES YOU a finisher shirt. Disney charges $26 for them. The demand was there (trust me, there were plenty of people asking about them) but Disney drops the ball again.
