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How crazy is the expo during Marathon weekend? I see that it starts on Wednesday early but we probably won't get there until mid-day. I still have vivid memories of the craziness at last year's DL expo. Should I expect the same at this? I would really love a Dopey shirt before they are sold out!
While the expo was busy when I went (Friday) I was shocked at how quickly I made it thru packet pickup, and there was tons of rD merchandise for all races when I was there...they still had a bunch of stuff post race too that was offloaded in the Mickey sport shop as well. I wouldn't worry about not finding the shirt of your dreams
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Thanks Tim that is great to know!! So, I'm feeling better now about the shirt situation, what do you think it will be like for, say, a purchase of maybe some new NB runDisney sneaks?
Liz went for Dopey pick up last year and reported it wasn't nearly as crowded as she thought it may be. If I remember, she arrived early afternoon and there was plenty of merch, she got all she wanted. DDD was an anomoly. I don't know why that happened in Cali! WDW seems to be much more organized and prepared somehow. I wouldn't worry about that part of it.
As for the shoes.... Kim can help on that! She scored her shoes using that new process, I think. Pretty sure it went OK. She'll pop in here eventually!
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Yeah, I was overly surprised with how well my time at the Expo went...I budgeted a ton of extra time (as I was planning on meeting up with some of the Mickey Miles gang) so arrived at IIRC about 1pm at the expo, planning to meet up with peeps at 4...so giving myself 3 hours to do packet pickup, hit the CEP booth for some quad sleeves, the rD booth for some Goofy stuff, and then look around at whatever else I wanted to check out. Hoka One One shoes...that sort of thing.
I think I was done at the expo by about 2... 2:15ish at the latest. Totally breezed through packet pickup...it took me longer to find where I had to go for Goofy in the field house than it did actually getting my stuff. Heck, one of the volunteers that I got my shirts from chatted with me longer than the entire process took...so it was very smooth.
The expo? It was hell, and I didn't enjoy it at all. Got what I HAD to get, and then got the heck out. I had no desire to fight the crowds to just look around at "stuff". I was done so early I ended up just going back to my resort and didn't actually make the meet up either.
As far as the shoes situation.....apparently it was smoother this year than in prior years, but I didn't bother looking into it too greatly, as NB aren't my shoes, so I wasn't going to worry about trying to snag a pair
Tim
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Tim - When you mentioned the MM meet up you reminded me that I wanted to ask if anyone was planning to join their running team? I love their podcast and am thinking of joining.
Here I am!!! Ugh I really hate being blocked at work!!
We went to packet pick up Weds night and it was AWESOME!!! We were able to go right up to the bib pick up and get our numbers right away! We were also able to walk thru the expo with no problem....but the issue with me was the shoes. Little did I know (until Tanya updated me via Facebook lol) that people were lining up to get the shoes at ugly-o-clock to get them. Thats when I got up early the next day to grab a cab and head to the expo....just me and another couple hanging out until about 630 when a few others arrived. If you do the 5K and have a car, Id suggest to run it, jump in the car and zip over to WWOS...thats what I saw a lot of people do and I know that they were able to get their shoes with no problem. And its nice too.....when you go to the first "station" to put in your info. you can see what sizes are sold out in each kind so you know beforehand if you want to sign up or not.
I know that as of right now, we will be arriving Thurs afternoon and going to pick up....might then run over to the expo after Minnie and get shoes.....depending on how they look. I was quite surprised, I didnt get any of the three shoes that Nike offered for the half! Maybe Im getting more self control on my racing purchases??? hahahhahahaha yeah who am I kidding!!
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If the Disney shoes were Asics, I'd be in biiig trouble.
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If the Disney shoes were Asics, I'd be in biiig trouble.
Ooh I definitely would be in bigger trouble!! I don't run in NB (well, except for that time I had to run the 10k in CA after leaving my shoes on the plane ) but I love wearing them to the parks and for cross-training.
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