Marathon Weekend 2025

[Let's Get Kronk]

The reason for the “wear both bibs” directive was likely due to the fact that they knew only one of the pair was likely to be inactive, but the corral assignments were different between the two sets of races. They couldn’t just have people wear only the 5k/10k bib for the marathon, as they would’ve potentially been in the wrong corral. So the 5k/10k bib was needed to provide the active chip and the half/full bib was needed to provide the corral.

Well, I know this type of thing is generally unpopular on here, but my running bestie was in the affected bib range and wore her 5K/10K bib OVER her half/full bib because the 5K/10K bib was for the A corral and her other one was for B corral. It worked as the person checking didn't look that closely and we were able to start together since I was in A for all the races.

 

[fatmanatee]

Has rD done any sort of make good for anyone?

They're letting people submit screenshots of their races via running apps and they'll update results.

Is there going to be any consequence for Track Shack?

That we know of? Nope. Maybe RD gets a refund or a more favorable deal in the future I guess.

 

[Zutroy]

I think it’s a bit simpler explanation. I don’t think there’s a differentiation between races for the chips themselves for Dopey. You have two chips, each encoded with the bib number, with one on each bib. That’s why people who inadvertently wear the wrong bib on the wrong day still get recorded correctly, at least in the instances I’ve heard of. Some of the chips were just inactive due to a manufacturing error.

My thinking is that there isn’t activated/deactivated for RFID. It’s like a hotel key card. It gets imprinted with information and then read by the timing mat. For thousands of bibs to leave the printers without any information being put on the chips seems far fetched. I think a more reasonable scenario is something like the hotel clerk punching in room 312 on the key card instead of 321, and the door not being able to read it. This begs the question—why would bibs that don’t register for the 5k and 10k be used to register time for the marathon? I don’t put stock in “what are the odds that both would be defective,” because what are the odds such a huge screw up would go undetected until race day?

 

[FFigawi]

I think it’s a bit simpler explanation. I don’t think there’s a differentiation between races for the chips themselves for Dopey. You have two chips, each encoded with the bib number, with one on each bib. That’s why people who inadvertently wear the wrong bib on the wrong day still get recorded correctly, at least in the instances I’ve heard of. Some of the chips were just inactive due to a manufacturing error.

The reason for the “wear both bibs” directive was likely due to the fact that they knew only one of the pair was likely to be inactive, but the corral assignments were different between the two sets of races. They couldn’t just have people wear only the 5k/10k bib for the marathon, as they would’ve potentially been in the wrong corral. So the 5k/10k bib was needed to provide the active chip and the half/full bib was needed to provide the corral.

For my n=1 data point, I wore my half/full bib for the 10k, the half, and the full, and it gave me results for all three races. I don’t think there’s a differentiation between the bibs and their chips either.

 

[Naomeri]

My thinking is that there isn’t activated/deactivated for RFID. It’s like a hotel key card. It gets imprinted with information and then read by the timing mat. For thousands of bibs to leave the printers without any information being put on the chips seems far fetched. I think a more reasonable scenario is something like the hotel clerk punching in room 312 on the key card instead of 321, and the door not being able to read it. This begs the question—why would bibs that don’t register for the 5k and 10k be used to register time for the marathon? I don’t put stock in “what are the odds that both would be defective,” because what are the odds such a huge screw up would go undetected until race day?

My 5K/10K Dopey bib had a functioning chip, and I have times for those races. My Half/Full bib had a nonfunctioning chip, and I have no time for the half. I have a time for the full because I had my 5K/10K bib underneath my Half/Full bib and that worked for tracking me. I don't think the double-bib solution for the full was offered to people who had bad chips for the 5K/10K.

 

[The Expert]

My 5K/10K Dopey bib had a functioning chip, and I have times for those races. My Half/Full bib had a nonfunctioning chip, and I have no time for the half. I have a time for the full because I had my 5K/10K bib underneath my Half/Full bib and that worked for tracking me.

Same exact scenario for me.

 

[Zutroy]

My 5K/10K Dopey bib had a functioning chip, and I have times for those races. My Half/Full bib had a nonfunctioning chip, and I have no time for the half. I have a time for the full because I had my 5K/10K bib underneath my Half/Full bib and that worked for tracking me. I don't think the double-bib solution for the full was offered to people who had bad chips for the 5K/10K.

When I was walking to the marathon, there were people checking every Dopey participant to make sure they were double-bibbed. What’s interesting is that the results are literally all over the map. It’s hard to make rhyme or reason for the pattern of the Dopey results. Some people have no 5k/10k times, some people have the half register and nothing else. I’d love for Disney to actually explain how this all went so wrong.