Marathon Weekend 2026

[marty3d]

Aww now I'm feeling the pressure to sign up for Dopey again!

There must be something wrong with us!

Got home an hour ago and one of the first things I did was block my work calendar the entire day March 11......

 

[The Expert]

I’m “supposed to” be taking that weekend off next year! Maaaaybe goofy. Gotta talk to DH and possibly DS2.

Princess next year is a better bet for me.

Okay so maybe I stick to my plan but also add Princess?? I DID say with my mom living local now, it opens up all the weekends. Running a half together sounds like a pretty easy assignment after what we just did. Now let's manifest a Merida race!

 

[Naomeri]

This is probably only helpful to fellow coastal folks in the south who need to talk themselves down, but I just took a minute to plot out long runs for a theoretical WDW Marathon/Goofy/Dopey and… yeah. I swore off W&D because the stress of long runs in the heat of summer + hurricanes was too, too much for me last year: this would be just as bad. Minus the hard deadline of a race weekend in the middle of it all, but still - off-putting for sure.

I had my whole Dopey training plan plotted out, and it seemed doable. ::narrator: it was not, in fact, doable:: Out of the 434 miles in the plan, I completed about 175 of them.

I will admit to curiosity as to what I could do with Dopey if I actually did the training, but I don't foresee November/December getting any easier to train in anytime soon, so I have to swear off Marathon Weekend--against my will. Plus, I probably shouldn't commit to any more runDisney races until I have a job to pay for them

 

[Naomeri]

Okay so maybe I stick to my plan but also add Princess?? I DID say with my mom living local now, it opens up all the weekends. Running a half together sounds like a pretty easy assignment after what we just did. Now let's manifest a Merida race!

We have until June to get this manifestation working. I'm down for Princess if I can get life back on track

 

[lookingforsunshine]

Shout out to @The Expert for helping me at the Expo & for the positive energy during the time we spent leap frogging during the marathon! I love this community

 

[nancipants]

Okay so maybe I stick to my plan but also add Princess?? I DID say with my mom living local now, it opens up all the weekends. Running a half together sounds like a pretty easy assignment after what we just did. Now let's manifest a Merida race!

I’m there either way. But I’m pretty sure @Herding_Cats will be at MW anyway.

 

[disneyrunnergrl]

After 4 years of dopey, goofy or the marathon I am out for the full next year. I just don’t want to train over the holidays again and I already have an October full on my race schedule. But I haven’t ruled out coming to cheer on Sunday. And now I’m starting to think maybe I could run the half

 

[GollyGadget]

During the marathon yesterday I thought never again. After finishing I told my husband to never let me do that again.

And now I want redemption.

After finishing the WDW Marathon in 2023, I told my husband to never let me do that again. I've run 3 marathons since but he never stops reminding me that he's supposed to stop me from myself

I'm likely out for MW 2026. I'm not done running, I just need a runDisney break. I'll be back.

 

[laurend]

Why didn’t you get them all? Which ones did you skip? I almost skipped a few where the Photopass photographers were having camera problems, but I wanted to get 100% one way or another.

I had time trialed a 1:38 half marathon the day after Thanksgiving and then the whole family got sick mid-December and my last couple weeks of training got borked. I should have been fit enough to tackle a BQ prior to getting sick and with the absolute perfect weather, I took 3-4 miles to decide whether I’d go for that or not (my lungs still said “not!”). I missed the first few stops there, 2 others where the characters hadn’t come out yet and then maybe 2 more where there were technical issues and it was cell phone pictures only. Next year I’ll wait and/or dig my phone out for those ones!

 

[Herding_Cats]

This is starting to feel like harassment