Looks like in person Run Disney events are back at WDW. WDW Marathon weekend is January 5-9, 2022! Hoping to get in and do the Dopey Challenge. Been waiting for this to come back!
Looks like in person Run Disney events are back at WDW. WDW Marathon weekend is January 5-9, 2022! Hoping to get in and do the Dopey Challenge. Been waiting for this to come back!
Went crazy yesterday and signed up for the Dopey Challenge. Time to start training.
i still cant bring myself to travel for a run event at WDW. I've been running half marathons for several years now (will have three in three months later this year) but just never got the bug to travel for a run. My lack of desire is compounded with the fact my wife is not a big fan of repeat visits every year - so this will have to wait for me. I have so many friends ready to run Princess next year.
"[Disneyland] has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement - I knew when I was a kid." - Walt Disney
The 2020 Disney World Half Marathon was my first Run Disney event. I was always skeptical of "paying to run". But I had a blast. The whole vibe of that weekend was very cool. Everything from the festival/check in, the run itself, and the runners in the parks with their shirts and medals. Going through MK before the sun is up, running down an empty Main Street was worth it alone. The worst part of the event is actually walking to the starting corrals. I can live with that. LOL. The Disney runs are no doubt pricey, but Disney does a good job with the events. It was kind of a joke the past couple of weeks that I was going to sign up for the Dopey Challenge. But when I couldn't get in the half marathon, I said let's just do this!
"[Disneyland] has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement - I knew when I was a kid." - Walt Disney
Just completed the Dopey Challenge this past weekend at WDW! What a blast! That was my first marathon. Already looking to head back to WDW for Wine & Dine Half Marathon and definitely going to try to do Dopey Challenge again in 2023.
From what I read, the number of runners for all events this year were limited compared to years past, which is understandable. For the Dopey Challenge results, they have 112 pages listed of runners who completed the challenge, at about 45-50 runners per page. So there are probably a couple hundreds of runners who either didn't make it to the event due to illness or because of travel cancelations, decided to bail out of the marathon part, or didn't finish the marathon/got swept on course.
They don't post the full 5k results, but here are the numbers by the other three events:
10k - 10,513 finishers
Half Marathon - 12,699 finishers
Marathon - 11,317 finishers
I'm way late to the party but glad to hear that the run events are back, congrats on your finish. I wonder if rundisney will ever return to anaheim again
Just keep trying, trying, trying.....
I did it! Woo Hoo Star Wars 10k completed
Disneyland Half Weekend 10k "I made it~ woo hoo!"
Yippee! Another Star Wars 10K Finished with style and a pr ::happy dance::
I doubt it. When the fighting with the City Council became too much to secure road closures for the 10K and Half , coinciding with SWGE land construction, this turned TDA to the races. As well a lot of regulations around volunteering and contractual obligations with outsources I think made them realize it was too much. And now they have not had races here since January 2018 I dont think they will come back - even with a favorable City Council in place. There's just not enough ability for Disney to control the entire event soup to nuts.
"[Disneyland] has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement - I knew when I was a kid." - Walt Disney
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