Pictures lines are always bad for the runDisney 5K. Sorry you had a rough experience.I am not running the 5K again. There is no reason 5yo children should be allowed in corral A. The course was 95% walkers 4-5 across 6-7 rows deep. Lines for pictures were ridiculous. I saw two elderly women with canes! It was crazy. We started in the second wave of corral A. I think our biggest mistake was stopping for the first photo op (Mike & Sully). My DD loves Monsters, Inc and wanted a pic. My DD was a bit frustrated with the other participants, but we had a good time with each other.
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Pictures lines are always bad for the runDisney 5K. Sorry you had a rough experience.
I think part of the issue with corralling for the 5K is there is not PoT or timing. It's a family friendly race and people will lie about their anticipated finish times or pace to get in a better corral for pictures or whatever.
Hey hey! Not sure if it’ll be much help, but figured I’d give a heads up on expo!
Not sure when they changed it, but if you’re on a resort bus to the expo, they now drop off next to the Arena. Might not be a bad idea to hit up the Arena for official Disney merchandise from the get go or have someone stand in line while getting other stuff. I think I got here today around noon and did bibs/shirts first (no lines). But then I headed over to the Arena where they’ve sequestered all the Disney stuff! I’ve probably been in line for about 30 minutes to get in. They said maybe an hour more. I heard there was a long line to pay as well. Looks like there might be more though, so hopefully that means no early sellouts!
Also pretty warm in here, so definitely have some water on hand!
Quite a happy crowd that’s waiting though! The allure of the merch!
Happy running this weekend!
I was supposed to be in corral A for the 5k today. Got to the corral at 4:55 and they had already closed the corral and wouldn’t let us in. As we were entering the corral they told us to hurry up because they were getting ready to close corral B!
So there were a ton of people from A in corral B. A girl next to me got split up from her family - they were in the back of corral A about 15 feet from where we were standing and the staff would not let her join her family.
I understand the need to keep the corrals moving, but closing them more than 30 minutes before the start - and not making an announcement - just seems like terrible planning.
All the princess weekend magic bands were gone
most of the sizes of the annual pass holder princess weekend shirt
There is no reason 5yo children should be allowed in corral A.
We must have gotten there at exactly the wrong time (about 1:30 pm)!
How long have the merch lines been today?
I understand the need to keep the corrals moving, but closing them more than 30 minutes before the start - and not making an announcement - just seems like terrible planning.
First let me say I totally agree that this was aggravating and wrong and they should have communicated this better.
But just to add some more details to the picture of what happened in case it helps anyone for the rest of the weekend or future 5ks. They started pulling corral A into the starting line "chute" way ahead of 5:30. As is often the case with princess the large number of runners seems to mean a lot of extra walking before a start. No difference today for sure! We wound in front of all the corrals and then up the side of the last corral and then back towards the starting line. I know I'm not explaining it right but I just wanted to explain why they may not have been able to get into corral A. Corral B (and possibly even C) could have already been loaded in after A. I don't know if it will be different set up for tomorrow and Sunday but I thought I would share my experience.
We did have a GREAT time this morning! Very fun run!
It won’t!Well, that was fun. Stopped for every single photo stop available (plus a port-o-potty) and ended up with a 2:04:XX 10k. Ended up being more a series of sprints since I was doing 7:30-8:00 miles in between stops. Hope that the fact that I was past 1:30:XX doesn't screw me for the challenge medal.
Congrats to everyone today and good luck to everyone running tomorrow!