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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Registration Psychosis

All of the runDisney fans know that today was regular registration for Marathon Weekend 2018 at Disney World. There was a lot of hoopla about this race weekend, because it happens to be the 25th anniversary of the WDW Marathon and the 5th anniversary of the Dopey Challenge. After having a great time this year during the marathon, I decided I would register for 2018 and also register for the 10K, which I also did this year. It worked out perfectly because I used the 10K as a last training run but had a day off before the full. I planned to do the same again for next year.

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But then you know what happens....suddenly your social media feeds are full of everyone planning on Dopey because then you're in for two anniversaries. I ran the 20th anniversary of the full as part of Goofy in 2013. I can't believe it's already time for the 25th!

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I also very clearly remember crying after crossing the finish line and stating that I would never do it again. Of course, I developed race amnesia by the time I got to the Orlando airport and claimed I would probably do Goofy during some anniversary weekend.

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But this was before there was an official Dopey Challenge. 

Then after doing several race weekends, I swore off challenges. At least for awhile. 

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Suddenly, this morning, with just over an hour before registration I went into some sort of race psychosis, where I suddenly wanted to sign up for Dopey. Not really because I wanted to do Dopey, but because what if I wanted to do it later and it was sold out?! 

I even had to consult my trusty friend, Abby, to talk me out of being stupid. I was having a pretty severe case of FOMO.

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Luckily, I came back to reality and stuck with my original plan of doing the 10K and the full. Also, I was signing my mom up for the 10K and it was pretty crazed trying to race against the clock to get it all done, but I needn't have worried. It is now three and a half hours since registration opened and nothing is sold out. Not even the 5K. That's a pretty good indicator that the glory days of runDisney are waning.



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I just hope we get something cool for the full marathon anniversary like the halfers got luggage tags this year for the Half That Never Happened. We only got a button for the 20th anniversary of the full. Boo.

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Who else signed up for marathon weekend?



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2 comments:

  1. Jennifer K.February 14, 2017 at 7:32 PM

    After doing WDW, I didn't think I'd want to do it again, but here we are. If not for the timing, I'd probably join you.
    I think you might be right about Run Disney on the wane.
    I signed up for the Disneyland 10K, thinking I wanted to take part in the fun, but it's always so hot that weekend that I'd skip the half. Then I had second thoughts later on. There were slots open for the double dare, so I called to see what's involved in changing.
    They want a $45 fee on top of the registration fees to make the change. I said no thank you. If they want to go back to the registration madness they had a few years ago, they're going to have to stop limiting participants to millionaires.

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  2. Fairytales and FitnessFebruary 15, 2017 at 6:02 AM

    I really thought about doing either the marathon or half in 2018 since now it will be an anniversary year for both, but I realized that it may be more about the hype than me really wanting to run. Although I really feel the need to shave 3 minutes off my marathon time but don't know that I'm ready to go through all that training again just yet. Glad you stuck with your gut!

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