Many runners are aware of the Goofy challenge. It’s a challenge that Disney World puts on in January where you run a half marathon on Saturday and full marathon on Sunday. I’ve always wanted to do it, but travel in January (especially to Florida) never really worked out. When Disneyland announced the Dumbo Double Dare — 10k Saturday and half marathon Sunday — I was up for it. It is not as glamorous as the Goofy, or even the Dopey challenge (5k, 10k, half, full), but I’m excited to be a part of Disney weekend.
Since there are plenty of runners that run the series of races Disney puts on, I thought it would be perfect to arrange a meet up, or tweet up, with some friends. So that’s exactly what we did.
Hosted by: SeeSharpRun, KatSNF, PavementRunner
Where: The outer patio at Disney’s Grand California Hotel
When: Saturday, Aug. 31 at 1 p.m.
Why: because we are runners and/or bloggers and social media knuckleheads that love to run, socialize and take photos
What else: We’ll have some giveaways to hand out
Official Hashtag: #DumboTweetUp
Requirements: None. It’s free, you don’t even have to be running that weekend.
Shout out to Pearl Izumi, Injinii, GU Energy and Outside PR for supplying all this fun gear to give away.
We look forward to meeting everyone. Don’t be shy. Just come up, say hi, take a photo, give a high-five (we still do that, right?) and tag away on social media. There are going to be so many phones out, it’s gonna be blogger/social media madness.
How excited are you about this?
Can we make instagram and twitter go crazy?
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Right now it says the meet up is on Aug 1, 2013 in your graphic not the 31st!
Will tell Kat she looks cute as Mickey ears. Will try to make this meet up if I can.
Thanks… it is the 31st, too many late night posts.
What a good reason to visit California again:) I’d be there in a second if I lived closer, what a good idea!
Doing a Disney race is on my bucket list. Sigh maybe someday. The dopey challenge sounds tough!
Love our Mickey Ears! Yup, says the 1st I missed it lol…oops…31st!
Changed. :)
Ohhhh…if only this were a car ride away! This looks like so much fun!
I see someone mentioned the graphic is wrong… I wish I was going to be around for this one since it is close! I would love to meet you but plans are already in motion for me to not be available.. :(
Excited to meet everyone!
Coming from San Diego. Running Half. Great idea! See you there :)
I’m sorry I missed it. I walked right by not realizing what was going on. I just saw you, Heather and others there. I should have known. I’m definitely a newbie.