Tuesday, March 8 was supposed to be the early Annual Pass and DVC member registration date for the Wine & Dine Half Marathon taking place in November. March 8 was also the date that the NYC marathon announced who will be chosen from the lottery for the NYC Marathon, also taking place the same weekend of Wine & Dine.
I was concerned about registration for Wine & Dine because I didn’t know if I was going to be selected for NYC and if by chance I was, I didn’t know what time I would receive that email. Well, as of Monday runDisney had a “special update” that the registration was being pushed off for a week, and then later on that was changed to 2 weeks. The dates are now March 22 for AP and DVC members and March 29 to the general public.
This is the actual announcement:
“We are putting the final touches on the 2016 Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend, which will now open to Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members on March 22 at noon ET and general registration will open on March 29 at noon ET. Also, registration for Avengers Super Heroes Half Marathon Weekend will now open for AP and DVC Members on April 5 at noon ET and general registration will open on April 12 at noon ET.”
So what is going on? Why are they pushing this date? According to all of the chatter going on in social media, the rumor is that they are extending the weekend to include additional races or an additional race. During the Wine and Dine race weekend which includes the Mickey’s Jingle Jungle 5K (which I did for the first time last year) on Saturday morning and then the Wine & Dine Half Marathon that Saturday night. People are always looking around just prior to registrations to get the early registration link from Active.com, and this image happened to circulate around social media. It came up prior to the announcement from runDisney so the rumor going around is that runDisney may be adding a challenge to the Wine & Dine race weekend. This would include the addition of a 10K to the weekend.
So now the challenge, another Inaugural event! If I keep joining in on these firs time events in hopes of being a “legacy” runner with these events, I am going to go even more broke! Well, I didn’t get into the NYC marathon and now I have to wait and see what runDisney announces for Wine & Dine weekend. Add to it, the fact that my kids have that Monday and Tuesday off from school and now I want to make this a family trip! But with the recent increase in price with the park tickets, we just can’t afford to go as a family of 4 to the parks. But we could make a weekend of it and enjoy the local attractions, perhaps a water park and being out of CT for a weekend. Decisions, decisions…..
Will you be participating in a new event if runDisney adds a challenge?
