Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend

Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend

Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend

( 159 reviews )
99% of reviewers recommend this race
  • Orlando,
    Florida,
    United States
  • January
  • 3 miles/5K, 6 miles/10K, 13.1 miles/Half Marathon, 26.2 miles/Marathon, Other
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

Laurie Nicholson

Acworth, Georgia, United States
1 5
2017
"Dopey 2017"
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Laurie Nicholson's thoughts:

First of all I split the stay in Florida between 2 hotels. Not that I recommend that but it did provide a unique experience of rating both the race transportation provided by Disney and the traveling to the race by car.
Dopey is 4 races starting on Thursday ending on Sunday, 5K, 10K, half and then Full Marathon. One thing that I am not sure that you can prep for is the horrible angle of the roads for rain off. The cantor is something that by Marathon Sunday was feeling it.

This year the 1/2 was cancelled Friday night because of the possibility of lightening. I for one was very disappointed and while they didn't have to do anything they did offer a Disney refund it should be noted this is different than RunDisney refund.

I was not too tramatized to not sign up for Dopey 2018 - I will complete this challenge as scheduled though I did get my half in I want the entire experience before I check it off my bucket list.

Things that could make this a 5 star race.
- Allow for better/more cheering sections.
- Allow for the 5k shirt since it is different material be a different size without having to go thru the exchange process.
-Better advertising of the runDisney program - I found it but it was difficult - it has LOTS of good information make it easier to find and maybe people will follow some of the good advice.
-Parking access- the super long walk for the marathon was a surprise since the other 2 races I had that weekend were not as long of a walk. And sell some bagels closer to the start for that race :)
-The expo directions were not obvious for the signs for bib pick up and then expo - the line to get into the expo was long and there were lots of line jumpers- I didn't care that day but you know have better organization for that long line after all Disney is the pro with lines :)

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