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Alas No Dannirr - they were offering to put in any time you wanted
Can't think of anybody in America that would lie about their marathon time........except for the bloke standing as vice president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/paul-ryan-marathon-time_n_1848715.html
I have to admit to wearing a t-shirt I never earned properly. Last year I did a bit of race crew work for a couple of friends doing an ultra marathon. As I had hours of spare time to kill I helped out at a couple of checkpoints giving out bags, filling drink bottles and general wombling duties while I waited for my pair to arrive. When I got to the finish I was rewarded for my endevours and doing the full course distance in a little red corsa with the same finishers t-shirt as the folk that ran the race much to the disgust of my pair who had just gone 40 odd miles on foot. Just goes to show there is more than one way to skin a cat and that running or driving ultras gives the same final rewards lol
Gazza thanks again for the info. I thought when I read the blurb about the entries to the race and the ballot that it would be like new york where your chances of getting in are slim if you apply in america and next to non-existant if you apply from overseas. I think it is certainly worth holding on until after the ballot before I look at the tour options and dust off the cork hat and inflatable kangaroo to pretend I'm an aussie!!!!
I've heard that Japan can be a bit pricey but it can't be any worse than Australia where I went the year before last to see big sis. (A) my sis is expensive anyway and (B) everything was a rediculous price. The one benefit of travelling on my own is that tables for one in poncy restaurants and heavy drinking sessions/nightclubbing on my jack jones are never high on the agenda. Once you take copious amounts of booze out of equation the amount of money you need for the spending money kitty goes down pretty quickly. 
slowfoot what were you wasting a tenner on melon for? Could you not find any cakes or chocolate. Not much danger of a scotsman spending that on fruit in a year never mind a single sitting.
Thanks JPatko for doing my maths better for me. I think I must have been going square eyed looking at 180 pages of results and missed a few folk although I think I removed a couple of folk myself from my count as they were so ludicously fast I thought they must have cheated or been on hand bikes (or both!!!!)
I think driving an ultra is the way forward C33
Not sure about getting the same shirt though - shocking, lol, .......I helped out at ironman uk and we all got tees, but they were different to the competitors, so i can wear with pride (except the fact it's the brightest of bright greens!!!)
You're welcome fer the maths Michael, it did take me ages to do it, cross referencing numbers from each race, theraputic I think they call it (or a sign of going mad?)
.....I didn't include any of the wheelchairs or handbikes (sorry if you were 1 of those) but I think 45mins for a HM is a bit of a silly speed to be going and fastest marathon hand-bike was 1:35!! wow... well done, but not in my charts 
Well, with respect to driving an ultra....
In November last year I raced an utra runner from London to Brighton. He left Hyde Park at 1 am, I left at 7.30 am. He was on foot, I wasn't - I was driving a 1902 Delahaye single-cylinder motor car. Yes, the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. It's a 60 mile course - and I only caught him 1 mile from the finish! Remarkable running from Duncan - you might have seen it on the news or in the papers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20197268
Duncan is the only person in the history of the event - which has been going since 1896 - to receive a finisher's medal without driving a car!
THERE IS AN OFFICIAL DOPEY CHALLENGE FOR 2014!!! 10K, HALF AND FULL!!!
After saying I wouldn't be doing Goofy again in 2014 - I HAVE TO DO THE FIRST DOPEY!!!
Do you get a dopey and a goofy medal or just a dopey. Are there 5 bits of proper bling on offer. This is just cruel. I had ticked goofy off my list before dopey got in on the act.
5K on Thursday, 10K on Friday, half on Saturday and full marathon on Sunday.
6 medals on offer - 5K, 10K, half, full, Goofy and Dopey apparently!
This is upsetting our plans we were thinking going to tokyo, running there and meeting up with minnie's friends and family when we were there but she might be expected back in florida at the same time. Life never runs smoothly!!!
Howdy doody everyone.. Quite exciting news isnt it!
I would just laugh if someone suggested this for a race series in this country but - its Disney so its all LALALA not real !
Seriously though, surely for the price you must get the 5 medals and 5 tech shirts ? Will need a spare room for the Disney running tops this rate LOL
I haven't been able to settle back into work properly since I heard the news! It took some time to accept that we shouldn't/couldn't do the 2014 Goofy as my eldest shouldn't be taken out of high school - but just as we had accepted it they come up with an official Dopey - with a 10K in it!
Ever since then I have been should we/shouldn't we -ing and researching flights and Disney accommodation!!!
My 2 can do the 10K too as the age limit is 10 years old - which is another reason to go for it (or maybe we would be accused of child cruelty???!!!).
But they want to do it!
MM - I assume you will go for the Dopey?
I only heard about this last year and immediately started planning on doing the Goofy in 2015. I havent run a Marathon yet and have only completed one HM (souvenir of which is my Avatar pic!!) The Dopey sounds even better but my wife has just told me that as our son will be in Year 10 we wont be granted holiday for him. Seems a shame to go without him
Rich - our high school is the same - absolutely no holiday granted for Year 10 and 11. Up to then it is frowned upon but not totally banned, so we could do it as ours would be in Year 8 - but I wouldn't feel comfortable about it.
If you started training now, you would be fine for the 2014 Goofy/Dopey if you could organise things for then? Then your son would be in Year 9 and not totally banned from going? Just a thought.
MM - yes, it's very difficult to be sensible when you have such a good time over there - so tempting.
Hope your hubby's back improves quickly.
I have had a wee search around and the feeling is you will get 4 medals and 4 t-shirts. No Goofy medal and no goofy t-shirt
Just as a thought should the goofy challenge be upgraded to the really goofy challenge and the dopey challenge becomes the goofy challenge to keep the goofy medal being the holy grail and the perfect goofy runners could run the new race and keep their perfect goofy status. It would seem a shame for some of those runners not to be able to run the dopey because they wouldn't get a goofy medal to add to their collections.
As one last point is anybody getting worried about the workload that is about to be dumped on the 7 dwarfs. Not only is dopey going to have to take over goofy's workload in the running capacity but they also have a new mine opening at the magic kingdom. They are all old blokes by the look of their white hair and beards and I'm a bit worried that they should be enjoying their retirements rather than working 24:7 on races and going back out with their picks to work work work work work work work the whole day through. I doubt snow white will ever see them
How awesome does that sound. Japan has just started to look a teency weency bit less appealing!!!!!
I know it is ludicrous to even contemplate doing it but I'm kind of pleased there is a different challenge to go back to. My run in january was magical and its highly unlikely I would ever match or better it. With 4 runs in the equation there is no way to compare what I've done before with what I will do again. The challenge is just getting round as best I can.
Trying to resist next year but never say never for the year after
Tesco Mastercard, put all your expenses on there, get Virgin Airmiles with the Clubcard points = free Virgin flights to Disney!
C33 - you're a young buck you have plenty of time to tick them all off
GG -I'd totally forgotten my Virgin points... Off now to check the balance !
Hi ho hi ho its off to shop I go. I'll spend real hard with my clubcard hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho
I found this thread last October, and have been lurking ever since.
You have inspired me back into training. Originally for the Goofy and now for the Dopey
I thought I'd join in to say that you can actually use Tesco clubcard points on Virginholidays.co.uk too, not just airmiles. My old vouchers should make a nice big dent in the cost of lovely Florida trip.
Now just need to make sure I get a ticket. I have no doubt the inclusion of the Minnie 10K and Dopey will make it a LOT more popular.
Hi Bullit. Glad you've joined in - and brilliant that you're going for the Dopey!
You have probably noticed that I (and a few others) get very excited about the Disney races so this should tell you that you will have a fantastic time over there!
HI Bullit - welcome to the house of mouse