Marathon Weekend 2018

rteetz said:
Happy Sunday! Hope everyone had a great week!
Today’s Sundays are for Disney question:
Where are you staying for Marathon weekend?
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Slummin' at All-Star Sports, been happy with it & don't spend a lot of time in the room anyway. I love how small it is too.


courtneybeth said:
18 mile run is complete. Maintained about a 12:30 average per mile in mid70 degree weather. It’s my new goal training pace and I felt good - about a minute per mile faster than what I was doing before my first full.

I’m coming for you Dopey.
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Awesome! Oh, how I would love mid-70s, sounds glorious! It's been high30s/40s running so I can't complain but we'll be hitting teens/low20s this week when I run & windy of course & the thought of 70s sounds wonderful.

garneska said:
Fort Wilderness Campground
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Cabins or your own camper/RV or tent camping (I've actually read people tent camping for the marathon & have no idea how they can sleep)? We stayed there all the time growing up in our camper or cabins, love that place.
 
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cavepig said:
Slummin' at All-Star Sports, been happy with it & don't spend a lot of time in the room anyway.
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This is where I was originally booked because it was supposed to be a solo trip. My parents, sister, and brother in law ended up deciding to come a couple of months ago though. My sister and I decided to share a room but she didn’t want to stay at a resort with only bus transportation so I ended up getting a Pin code in the mail with a great price at YC. Can’t argue with the offer my sister made me to still only pay what I would have paid at All Star and she’d pick up the rest to stay deluxe! Feeling very grateful for that opportunity.
 
bryana said:
This is where I was originally booked because it was supposed to be a solo trip. My parents, sister, and brother in law ended up deciding to come a couple of months ago though. My sister and I decided to share a room but she didn’t want to stay at a resort with only bus transportation so I ended up getting a Pin code in the mail with a great price at YC. Can’t argue with the offer my sister made me to still only pay what I would have paid at All Star and she’d pick up the rest to stay deluxe! Feeling very grateful for that opportunity.
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Cool, That's an awesome sister too!
 
Sunday Question:

I'll completely break with trend as we are staying off-site renting a house in Champions Gate. We have a group that will be as small as five and as large as 13 or 14 (it's less than a month away and I still don't know) so we could save a ton of money and much more easily manage the last-minute room needs of our crazy travel party by renting a house rather than trying to figure out rooms at Disney Resorts. We did the same thing last year and it worked out well.

Since I am the resident Disney "expert" (as the quotations hopefully imply, I am using that term verrrry loosely) I have been tasked with all the dining and FP+ planning. I think I finished all of it today and everything went to plan. We (I) knew we weren't going to get Pandora (either attraction), 7DMT, or FEA so I am really happy with how everything went. Was able to split the group in certain circumstances and still hit the attractions we wanted at the same time (we have some very small children in the group, so getting simultaneous Space Mountain/Peter Pan, ToT/Little Mermaid, and EE/Nemo was a necessity). Our latest FP+ over 4 days at 4 parks is 1:05 PM so we could possibly have a chance to add some extras each day (although I'm not counting on it, I know how fast everything gets picked over after the first-timers/stragglers get hip to the system on days as busy as these will be). I'll be posting in a little more detail in my journal and doing a trip report afterward if anyone is interested.

Definitely feeling the excitement now.
 
cavepig said:
Cabins or your own camper/RV or tent camping (I've actually read people tent camping for the marathon & have no idea how they can sleep)? We stayed there all the time growing up in our camper or cabins, love that place.
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We have our own RV, so sleeping is not an issue. I gave an awesome matress topper, a/c or heat depending on what we need, my own pillows, etc. This will be our third Disney marathon in the RV. Prior to that we usually stay at Poly or Contemporary, we like using monorails to get to the start rather than busses.

The great thing with the RV is we take the dogs.
 
rteetz said:
Happy Sunday! Hope everyone had a great week!

Today’s Sundays are for Disney question:

Where are you staying for Marathon weekend?

My answer: Bay Lake Tower. It’s my first time there or at an MK resort in general so I’m incredibly excited for that.
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Just changed our reservation yesterday to Old Key West. We were going to stay at the Fort Wilderness cabins, but it was going to be a tight squeeze (Dh, me, and our four teen boys) and I wasn't happy about the new "dogs allowed" policy. I'm a little bummed to be missing the fort though. :(
 
garneska said:
We have our own RV, so sleeping is not an issue. I gave an awesome matress topper, a/c or heat depending on what we need, my own pillows, etc. This will be our third Disney marathon in the RV. Prior to that we usually stay at Poly or Contemporary, we like using monorails to get to the start rather than busses.

The great thing with the RV is we take the dogs.
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Oh that Sounds awesome! Sleeping in a bed you already know sounds like a major plus.

Dr Q said:
POP here...first time staying there.
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Pop is great & bonus cause you can walk over to AOA & have access to their foodcourt easily with their Pasta your way!
 
rteetz said:
Happy Sunday! Hope everyone had a great week!

Today’s Sundays are for Disney question:

Where are you staying for Marathon weekend?

My answer: Bay Lake Tower. It’s my first time there or at an MK resort in general so I’m incredibly excited for that.
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Boardwalk Vilas for us as well. Staying for over a week and each day we ware either starting or ending at Hollywood Studios or Epcot to take full advantage of being "walkable"
 
I’m staying at Coronado Springs. Although I’m currently waiting on Disney to fix the last name on my reservation because it was misspelled. Until they fix it, I can’t link the reservation to My Disney Experience and I’m getting paranoid something is going to get messed up.
 
rteetz said:
Where are you staying for Marathon weekend?
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Saratoga Springs

On a separate note, I was able to run 3 miles this morning completely pain free. I’ll now shoot for 5 miles on Wednesday, along with some more miles on the stationary bike throughout the week. Hopefully I’m over whatever the issue was and I can get a good solid month of training in.
 
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Packing for us begins when we start saying..."Might as well go ahead and leave that out, just put it in the guest bedroom"

Today, after using this backpack last night we have now officially started packing.

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