Top Ten Ways to Ruin Your runDisney Race Weekend
Ten surprisingly easy ways to derail a runDisney race weekend—from chasing a PR and skimping on sleep to underestimating the logistics. Plus, how to avoid every one of them.
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How to Register for a runDisney Race
runDisney just moved the 2027 Springtime Surprise Weekend up a week. It’s now April 8–11, 2027. But the date that matters for now is still the same: Registration. General registration opens Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at 10 a.m. Eastern on runDisney.com. (Club runDisney Gold- and Platinum-level members can register a week earlier, on June 30th.)…
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runDisney 2026 – Disney Princess Half Marathon Recap: Ten Years Running
Another race weekend is behind us. Dopey feels like it just happened. I can’t even wrap my head around Princess being over now, too. The Lead Up This was the first time in ten years that I only ran one of the races of a race weekend. My very first runDisney race was the 2016…
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runDisney: 2026 Walt Disney World Half Marathon Recap
If you want to see the 5K recap, you can find it HERE. The 10K recap is HERE. And my comprehensive guide for the weekend is HERE. Another race down!! This morning’s half marathon, starting at 5 a.m. and featuring lovebirds Donald Duck and Daisy Duck, marked the third race of Walt Disney World’s 2026…
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runDisney: 2026 Walt Disney World 10K Recap
If you want to see the 5K recap, you can find it HERE, and my comprehensive guide for the weekend is HERE. 2 down!! This morning’s 10K went “nuts for 6.2 mysterious miles led by super sleuth Chip and his trusty friend Dale.” I don’t know what it was about this course that made it…
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We fell in love this weekend: New Bern’s Trail to Tryon Races x Breeze Airways
There are a handful of times in my life that I’ve set foot in a place that just felt right: In 11th grade, coming up the escalator from Penn Station to visit my father while he was stationed in New York, in college and law school, first stumbling on each of my favorite nooks in…
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A note from the start of the (runDisney) training season. {{And a love letter to marathon training.}}
Training officially started today for my 2024-’25 (runDisney) running season. My first major race of the season will probably be runDisney’s Wine & Dine (short of any spontaneous local ones I throw in along the way) but I always gear my training to January’s Dopey Challenge since that’s the biggest race set of the season…
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What Do I Do Now? How to approach the end of the race season…
The runDisney race season starts in November with Wine & Dine weekend and ends in April – with what’s now the Springtime Surprise weekend. (Veterans of runDisney will remember that this used to be a Star Wars themed weekend – as Springtime Surprise it’s now the race weekend each season with an ever changing, “surprise”…
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Complete Full Marathon Recap: runDisney WDW Marathon Weekend 2023
Date & Time: Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 5 a.m. Course Map: At last we come to the final race of Walt Disney World’s 2023 runDisney Marathon Weekend – the marathon itself. Because so many runners do the Goofy Challenge (the half marathon and full marathon – 39.3 total miles) or the Dopey Challenge (the…
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Staying Safe When Running Alone
It’s hard not to watch the story of missing Memphis runner, Eliza Fletcher, unfold without thinking, among so many other things, “there but for the grace of God…” We are praying hard for Fletcher and her family. And I want, also, to make sure that each of us is assessing our own training practices and…
