Brittany Charboneau wins 5k, 10k, half and full marathon at 2022 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend

BOHICA wrote:

bop wrote:

LRC might as well start collecting stats and World Bests for this World Athletics Copper Label Race .

Her combined time is 298m:45s. I'll go out on a limb without checking past results and assume that's the lowest combined time in history for women. For the 78.2925 k total her average pace was 3:49/k or 6:08/mi.

Anyone know the event records for someone completing the Dopey Challenge? Or for someone doing just an individual event?

For males?

Plz tell me there was drug testing at this event

You are joking right. This isn't an elite race and I'm pretty sure there isn't even prize money. Unless the funny runner is training for an ultra this event was pointless, maybe even detrimental.

Ostritch wrote:

This is an incredible performance. She should be really proud! Probably the greatest performance of the year so far.

Dude ran 100 miles last week in under 11 hours. (10:51) and you have this as the performance of the year so far.

Yeah. Okay. Sure.

TrackCoach wrote:

Little Debbie wrote:

So only no better runners were willing to go to WDW RN, that's newsworthy?

I will never understand why the LRC is always critical of anything that's new and cool. Thousands of runners travel from all over America to enjoy doing what we all enjoy...what is wrong with that? If non competitive runners one day decided to stop buying gear, magazines, memberships participating in road races and going to track meets, etc., we would no longer have a sport. Think of that the next time you criticize someone for not being elite like yourself.

Nothing cool happens on Disney property. Ever.

It's not sport and I'm not required to celebrate, be interested in, or even respect it. I just hope all those medals didn't break her neck.

bop wrote:

LRC might as well start collecting stats and World Bests for this World Athletics Copper Label Race .

Her combined time is 298m:45s. I'll go out on a limb without checking past results and assume that's the lowest combined time in history for women. For the 78.2925 k total her average pace was 3:49/k or 6:08/mi.

Anyone know the event records for someone completing the Dopey Challenge? Or for someone doing just an individual event?

For males?

Mike Wardian won the Dopey Challenge a couple of years ago but I don’t think that he won every race.

To those who walked all four distances it indeed is an accomplishment. What is about people having fun that you have a problem with?

Beast mode for the Funny Runner! Way to get after it Brittney!

rojo wrote:

It's one race each day at 5 am ET for four straight days (going up in distance) starting at 5 am ET on Thursday.

Charboneau, who ran her 2:33:14 pb to get 13th at the US Olympic Marathon Trials, ran the following times - 17:36, 36:36, 1:19:18, and 2:45:15.

Apparently, A LOT of people run all 4 races - which is called the "Dopey Challenge". I think more than 5,000. if I counted correectly in the results

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Article:

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-sp-disney-marathon-results-20220110-jvmtpha735g45k7slxuqoloo4m-story.html

Results:

https://www.trackshackresults.com/disneysports/results/wdw/wdw22/Dopey%20Challenge.pdf

Those are IMPRESSIVE times. I am happy to break 20 in the 5k, 42 in the 10k, 1:34 in the half and 3:20 in the full. I know a lot of LRC will say her times are slow but if I ran those I'd die happy

Captain Cranky wrote:

BS wrote:

Yes it’s an accomplishment walking nearly 50 miles over 4 days for the average American - in fact I would find that harder to do than running it.

The actually accomplishment is spending $800 on race fees (if not a lot more) and a unknown amount of hotel costs for this boondoggle.

She quit her good-paying marketing job so she probably was wealthy to begin with and could afford the runDisney race$.

Ackley wrote:

bop wrote:

LRC might as well start collecting stats and World Bests for this World Athletics Copper Label Race .

Her combined time is 298m:45s. I'll go out on a limb without checking past results and assume that's the lowest combined time in history for women. For the 78.2925 k total her average pace was 3:49/k or 6:08/mi.

Anyone know the event records for someone completing the Dopey Challenge? Or for someone doing just an individual event?

For males?

Mike Wardian won the Dopey Challenge a couple of years ago but I don’t think that he won every race.

That's correct. The male who won the marathon ran 2:30:xx I think this weekend.

MileHigh26.2Runner wrote:

Beast mode for the Funny Runner! Way to get after it Brittney!

Her PR is 2:33. I'm curious to see if she'll go under 2:30 and close the gap on new talents like Molly Seidel.

Don't understand the hate. Legit runner who ran their 2:33 PB on the tough Atlanta course to finish in the top-15. If I were her I'd be lining up a sub-2:30 attempt but this is a fun way to spend a weekend & was very impressive. She didn't really sandbag the efforts. With her ultra background, I doubt her 5k PB is that much faster than 17-mid. She has run 73-mid for 13.1 but lists 34:51 as her 10k PB.

With the 1st 2 races she basically does 15k close to half marathon pace. Then she runs 6-flat for 13.1, which isn't other worldly for her but harder after 15k of hard running. Then she runs 2:45 for 26.2. Dk what the Florida weather was like but guessing not 100% perfect for any of the races. The 2:45 seems pretty dang good after all of that.

So many LRCers hating who probably haven't run 2:45 for 26.2. Find some more joy & try to be less miserable.

A 2:45 in Ohio for men would be top 40-50 and for women top 5 at a big marathon like Columbus. That's far from a slow time.

She did it because it seems she is a type of influencer and Hobby Joggers will be all about it.. Hail she has two pages here already.

Not knocking the accomplishment I could never come close. Her Insta is amusing

It’s flat and fast. I run with a girl who placed top 50 in all four races a few years ago while wearing outfits and posing for pictures. It takes a disciplined person to do it

Funrunkid wrote:

It’s flat and fast. I run with a girl who placed top 50 in all four races a few years ago while wearing outfits and posing for pictures. It takes a disciplined person to do it

It sounds like a 3:20 guy like me would probably run 3:12-3:13 or so on it, flat and fast. There's a section though with a weird uphill (onramp?).

I'm mostly curious what North Face shoes she wore since she's sponsored by them. Do they make road shoes??

sbeefyk2 wrote:

I consider this more of an accomplishment than anything any LetsRun posters have done at any point in their life.

I whent to prinseton.

I looked at the course map. It does look very fast, except for some lonely stretches past the half.

It also appears even a modest 3:20 would put me around 125th place.

rojo wrote:

It's one race each day at 5 am ET for four straight days (going up in distance) starting at 5 am ET on Thursday.

Charboneau, who ran her 2:33:14 pb to get 13th at the US Olympic Marathon Trials, ran the following times - 17:36, 36:36, 1:19:18, and 2:45:15.

Apparently, A LOT of people run all 4 races - which is called the "Dopey Challenge". I think more than 5,000. if I counted correectly in the results

.

Article:

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-sp-disney-marathon-results-20220110-jvmtpha735g45k7slxuqoloo4m-story.html

Results:

https://www.trackshackresults.com/disneysports/results/wdw/wdw22/Dopey%20Challenge.pdf

The 5k results aren't there. They have 10k, half, and full results but I can't find the 5k results at all on runDisney.