2026 Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend

[emmabelle]

mine was on my iphone mini 12 running Safari. Of course it was the smallest device that got in first. With my phone I was at 36 minutes pretty quickly. I was shocked.

My husband's laptop running Chrome got down to like 31 minutes when I got in on my phone

Our Apple desktop running Safari was still at over an hour by the time I was finished on my phone.

 

[The Expert]

DH speculates that if they are doing some IP checking/blocking, the best way around that is to use different internet access points -- ie wifi on your computer and cell signal on your phone.

It also appears the queue ID may be viewable in the code of the waiting page, and with a bit of creative URL reconstruction it could be shared. It's not the most straightforward process, and it has not been successfully tested in real time as far as I can find.

 

[Novatrix]

DH speculates that if they are doing some IP checking/blocking, the best way around that is to use different internet access points -- ie wifi on your computer and cell signal on your phone.

It also appears the queue ID may be viewable in the code of the waiting page, and with a bit of creative URL reconstruction it could be shared. It's not the most straightforward process, and it has not been successfully tested in real time as far as I can find.

I volunteer to help test when MW registration opens in March since I already have my bib if you think you figure something out.

 

[jpholic]

very fortunate today and was prepared to walk away with nothing but was able to sign up for the half. i want to say opera got me in today and queue time started at 21 mins but got in under 15 mins waiting. first time getting in queue with less than an hour wait.

 

[marty3d]

DH speculates that if they are doing some IP checking/blocking, the best way around that is to use different internet access points -- ie wifi on your computer and cell signal on your phone.

That didn't help me much - I was thinking about that and had both my phones off wifi. iPad on VPN to NYC and my MacBook on my home wifi - no VPN. (I figured I had all bases covered)

My first browser (MS Edge on MacBook to home wifi ) to connect was a few minutes after the Challenge sold out. No other device / browser finished before all races were sold out.

Also - I was not logged into any Disney account other than through safari on my Mac - just in case they wanted to get to that level of sophistication.

I'm really not sure what conclusion to draw from this other than I had bad luck - and make friends - because that's the only way I got in

 

[Disneyhanna]

Everything worked as usual, they simply hid the easy queue sharing. Those who were successful in opening multiple unique browsers in the past should have had the same experience today (you just couldn't easily verify that you had unique queues). I don't want to say much more about it because they are obviously trying to crack down on it, but the queue links were still there, just not as easy to find and share as in the past.

Nothing to do with IP addresses or anything, I did get a few very quick queues (amongst many more 1 hour + ones) in a similar ratio that I've experienced in the past.

 

[disneyfan0910]

For the first time in 12 years of races (today made me extremely grateful for the luck I had in the past), I did not get the registration I was going for but did get the half instead of the challenge for my running party (of course this is the first time bringing friends into runDisney and we all had our hearts set on the challenge).

Wondering if anyone has been successful in stalking the race openings (I know there's a twitter account for this) and transferring to a higher distance? I imagine it's rare but I saw some people discussing on instagram and curious if anyone has tips or has tried

 

[fatmanatee]

For the first time in 12 years of races (today made me extremely grateful for the luck I had in the past), I did not get the registration I was going for but did get the half instead of the challenge for my running party (of course this is the first time bringing friends into runDisney and we all had our hearts set on the challenge).

Wondering if anyone has been successful in stalking the race openings (I know there's a twitter account for this) and transferring to a higher distance? I imagine it's rare but I saw some people discussing on instagram and curious if anyone has tips or has tried

A lot of people have upgraded to challenges with no issues. Have a feeling it’s just going to get more and more competitive though, every time there’s a race sellout the questions about “can i still get in?” come out and that means more people clued into the alerts. This weekend just felt a lot more difficult. Went completely smoothly too! Just difficult, seems like more people missed out.