Average Disney Marathon Finish Time Was....5:48:43

Winning wrote:

In America they need to rename the marathon, "let's walk for six hours".

ha, nicely done

stryker drilling wrote:

Would you have rather people been at home on their couch, watching sports, or maybe at a bar drinking beer?

I agree with this. There are more races now because there are more people running them. More opportunity for faster runners to race.

In my smallish town there are multiple races a weekend now, 30 years ago when I was competitive I was lucky to find 2 a month.

Prince Charming wrote:

lollerama wrote:

That is pretty incredible. I'm definitely not elitist by any means, but that is surprisingly slow. If you asked me to guess, I would have put the average at around 4:00 - 4:10. So I'm off by close to two hours. Is there a reason why it is this slow? Surely most major marathons have a much faster average time....?

You are off on how fast an average marathoner is. The median finishing time for marathon finishers for all US marathons (depending on the year) is around 4:15:00 (for men)

Sounds like I wasn't far off at all. I was thinking men when I said 4:00-4:10, and you're telling me it's 4:15.

Bob Schul Country wrote:

The running godz..... wrote:

Neither is a 304 marathon. Have to be faster than 7 minute pace.

come on.....99.9% of runners have to still train to run sub 7 minute pace. That is a legit pace

I agree, sub 3:04 marathon is tough for runners who even run under 18:30 for a 5k.

Well obviously Disney has figured something out as their races are all huge and sounds like they're quite expensive (although I always heard the Disney marathon started and finished outside of the park so you still had to buy a ticket to get in.) At any rate maybe Disney could follow an Oiselle type model and use some of the revenue from all these races to sponsor a professional team.

whatever, dude wrote:

I expect almost everyone is doing it for admission to the park and an entertaining experience, not a competitive race.

Very well could be. Personally the last thing I would want to do after running 26 miles (competitively or not) is spend the day at Disney World. A day at DW is a standalone ordeal.

Use for the $ wrote:

Well obviously Disney has figured something out as their races are all huge and sounds like they're quite expensive (although I always heard the Disney marathon started and finished outside of the park so you still had to buy a ticket to get in.) At any rate maybe Disney could follow an Oiselle type model and use some of the revenue from all these races to sponsor a professional team.

You'd think Disney would give you a coupon for discounted admission, but at least for LA - the price is flex, so when I ran on Labor Day weekend, it was $30 more than the offpeak price for admission.

Disney Racing would be kind of cool.

I'll take that discount wrote:

Good to see an American win. It has been dominated by Mexican runners for years. They canned prize money years ago but they provide a free trip back the following year if you win, thus the sub-elite Mexicans who trek to Florida looking to score a free vacation. Fast times years ago. These days, mostly just a hobby jogging/walking event. Ran it several times. Admittedly it's neat to crack the top 20 in a race that big, but the course is painfully boring between parks, it starts so early it's still dark and is so flat you never change muscle groups. It's good for a discounted room at a Disney resort.

Brazilians, not Mexicans.

don't care for anything disney and this isn't a defense but apparently they have "photo stops" for literal hobby joggers with disney characters

so a 4 hour average easily becomes 5-6 hours

look it's a family thing, not everyone is going to get it, disney races are certainly not about being elite or sub-elite, in fact I find it more strange the people that slap down $200 to run a disney race and set a high quality time, there are certainly much better courses and environments to be respected

disney is about squeezing every dollar possible out of people's mindless entertainment and they've pretty much perfected it

Disney races are pretty chill in terms of the competition so times are much slower. Lots of more serious runners don’t run because of the higher entry costs I think. I still enjoy running them though and it is significantly easier to get age group awards there than other large non-Disney races.

Not a marathon guy wrote:

Bob Schul Country wrote:

come on.....99.9% of runners have to still train to run sub 7 minute pace. That is a legit pace

I agree, sub 3:04 marathon is tough for runners who even run under 18:30 for a 5k.

Didn't say it wasn't good or easy but it is still just jogging.

I'm 53 now and pretty much have to be doing a hard workout to go faster than 7 pace. As hard as it may seem, it is still slower than I used to be able to go right out the door when I was in high school. Don't know why everybody thinks jogging is such a bad thing. Everybody does it at some time, even the fastest sprinters in the world.

(3537 finished between 7 hour and Last finisher)

That horrifies me as someone who has worked a marathon finish line and had to wait for the final finisher. 7 hours into the race and still a few thousand out on the course. FFS.

You agist aholes.

For the 70+ crowd, that pace is not AT ALL easy.

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

According to marathonguide(dot)com....Average finish time of 2018 Disney Marathon was a blazing 5:48:43.

Wow. Just wow. I'm not the fastest runner on these boards (by a looooong stretch) but is this even running? It's a freaking 13:18/mile pace.

“It’s a small world after all”, eh? In other words, aren’t we all hobby joggers??

Best comment Award goes to…

I "ran" my first marathon undertrained & injured. I even had to walk a few miles.

I finished it 5:04. Embarrassingly slow, but still faster than these Disney-Cult-Members.

Avocado's Number wrote:

Admittedly, it sounds slow, but maybe it was just a tactical race.

Yeah baby.

Plus those cows don't know the shortcuts to the good stuff.

slowerthanu wrote:

(3537 finished between 7 hour and Last finisher)

That horrifies me as someone who has worked a marathon finish line and had to wait for the final finisher. 7 hours into the race and still a few thousand out on the course. FFS.

You can expect some physically challenged athletes to take a long time, but that's usually less than a dozen or so competitors.

This guy had more guts than 99.9% of all runners. And never b1tched about it either.

I have never run more than 4 hours much less 5:48....wtf, that is a long time to be on your feet. I realize this is a fast shuffle and not really running mechanics, but damn give it to a 250 lb waddler they had to be sore as hell the day after