Marathon Weekend 2018

[Sailormoon2]

@FelisLachesis right at 5:00 when they open. Still need to get to bed early for the Marathon the next morning, but my family will be heading back to MK for the fireworks I think.

 

[DopeyBadger]

I'll add my ADRs too:
1/3 Jungle Skipper (dinner)
1/4 YaknYeti (Lunch)
1/5 Tusker House (late breakfast) Sanaa (Dinner)
1/6 BOG (@DopeyBadger I'll be leaving as you arrive) CG (early dinner)-Celebration for my family completing the 1/2! (Mainly sushi for me!)
1/7 Flying Fish: Celebratory Dinner!!!

Impromptu DIS meet!

 

[FelisLachesis]

@FelisLachesis right at 5:00 when they open. Still need to get to bed early for the Marathon the next morning, but my family will be heading back to MK for the fireworks I think.

My reservation is at 5:30! Woot!

 

[Tacos]

Does anyone know when they'll be posting the course map for the marathon, or does it not change much (if at all) from year-to-year?

 

[Dis_Yoda]

Does anyone know when they'll be posting the course map for the marathon, or does it not change much (if at all) from year-to-year?

It should come out mid December - it could change some because of the construction around the world but it will go through all 4 parks

 

[Tacos]

It should come out mid December - it could change some because of the construction around the world but it will go through all 4 parks

Thank you!

 

[Z-Knight]

Do you want to join my party on Sunday night?

Thank you, I think that would be great. Your meetups always sound awesome, so I expect the same even after 48.6 miles of running.

 

[gjramsey]

I am kinda jealous of all this ADR talk. We are just doing counter service this time around. Good to hear that AOA has a good pasta bar, since that is where we are staying this time around.

 

[Dr Q]

Here are my ADR's...no use in keeping them secret LOL! Marathon weekend vets, please feel free to tell me where I went wrong!

1/2 (Tues) - Tusker House Dinner
1/3 (Wed) - Keys to the Kingdom Tour, California Grill Dinner
1/4 (Thurs) - Akershus Dinner
1/5 (Fri) - Hollywood Brown Derby Lunch, Mama Melrose's Dinner
1/6 (Sat) - Recovery Day
1/7 (Sun) - Skipper Canteen Lunch, 'Ohana Dinner

 

[mawatcha]

Have Buzz and Woody/Toy Story gang been on the marathon course before? I didn't stop in 2016 for characters, but may do if they're around in '18.

 

[rteetz]

Have Buzz and Woody/Toy Story gang been on the marathon course before? I didn't stop in 2016 for characters, but may do if they're around in '18.

Woody and Jessie have been in Frontierland before. Buzz might have shown up in Tomorrowland but I remember Monsters Inc. there recently.

 

[cavepig]

Have Buzz and Woody/Toy Story gang been on the marathon course before? I didn't stop in 2016 for characters, but may do if they're around in '18.

I've seen Buzz in Tomorrowland, it was 2015 I think. Don't forget Sarge, I'm sure he'll be out there yelling at us, and make you do push-ups for a selfie

 

[Simba's Girl]

I'll add our ADRs as well...DSS did a great job for us as we were traveling this morning and couldn't log on. Only slight snag was Via Napoli on Marathon eve...wanted early dinner but they only got a late one (8:15pm) so switched to a late lunch. NBD really, if DH is hungry later at night he can get some snacks in the lounge.

Here's what we got. We don't have an ADR each day we're there, just don't want to commit to them with 2 teens and a tween, each being unnecessarily picky eaters. Honestly they'll be happy just snacking around the world.

1/3-Arrival day, no ADR
1/4-No ADR
1/5-Tusker 10:30am breakfast (after 10K)
1/6-Via Napoli 2:40pm late lunch
1/7-Ohana celebration dinner 6:30p
1/8-HEA Fireworks dessert party with plaza garden viewing
1/9-no ADR
1/10-departure day no ADR

 

[lahobbs4]

On the topic of food.... I am needing recommendations for a good nutrition plan for marathon training! I keep finding conflicting advice on what to eat and it's overwhelming. So, if you have a link to a great nutrition plan for a woman (first real marathon, only a runner for a year, no dietary restrictions) I would gladly appreciate it! I am anemic so keeping energy up during long runs is a big goal of mine.

Booked our stay at the Beach Club and made all my ADR's today! Got a Cali Grill for the night after the marathon, at 6:50. Looking forward to celebrating there for the first time!

 

[OldSlowGoofyGuy]

Congrats Everyone on ADRs!

We'll have my 85 year old mom with us (along with brother, SIL, 2 nephews), so the plan (at least for our half of the family), is to eat at 'home' more. As a bonus, we save some bucks AND can get 'inert' food!

Our only ADR is 1/7 Trattoria al Forno. It is our traditional last night/celebratory meal. It will be kind of bittersweet, as I'm scaling back on Disney for a (long) while.

 

[dta87]

This is a non-park trip for us so we wanted to get a little adventurous with a few first time restaurants on our ADRs (we couldn't pass on our Poly favorites though)
3 Jan Homecomin' dinner
5 Jan Boathouse lunch
6 Jan Kona breakfast
6 Jan Tratorria al Forno dinner
7 Jan 'Ohana celebration dinner
The rest of the time will be exploring the new quick serve places at the Springs

 

[rteetz]

This is a non-park trip for us so we wanted to get a little adventurous with a few first time restaurants on our ADRs (we couldn't pass on our Poly favorites though)
3 Jan Homecomin' dinner
5 Jan Boathouse lunch
6 Jan Kona breakfast
Tratorria dinner
7 Jan 'Ohana celebration dinner
The rest of the time will be exploring the new quick serve places at the Springs

Homecomin and Boathouse are fantastic!

 

[Dis_Yoda]

This is a non-park trip for us so we wanted to get a little adventurous with a few first time restaurants on our ADRs (we couldn't pass on our Poly favorites though)
3 Jan Homecomin' dinner
5 Jan Boathouse lunch
6 Jan Kona breakfast
6 Jan Tratorria al Forno dinner
7 Jan 'Ohana celebration dinner
The rest of the time will be exploring the new quick serve places at the Springs

Blaze Pizza is good! We weren't fans of polite pig

 

[rteetz]

Blaze Pizza is good! We weren't fans of polite pig

D-Luxe burger is good too.

 

[dta87]

Blaze Pizza is good! We weren't fans of polite pig

That is not good to hear we definitely wanted to try the Pig