The good thing about riding Everest is that once you’ve done it, you’ll be ready to hit Tower of Terror and Rock 'n Roller Coaster when you get to Studios.
My wife and I have done the WDW marathon 3 times. The first one, we hit Everest at just the right time. About a 5 minute wait, an awesome ride, and we were back on the course. The next time, we hit AK before Everest opened, and we didn't want to wait around for 20 minutes. The last time, we hit AK waaaaaay after it opened, and there was a huge line, even for single riders. It definitely seems like luck plays a big part in timing. (Or maybe, just we just needed better planning the last 2 races)
LOL, this is a fun question!
DH is a good sport and will dress up with me (Jasmine and JasMAN). But I do have *several* Jas tattoos so when I see her in the parks, it's an easy conversation piece with her (hopefully, she isn't frightened.). 
MAFDOE: I think a medal for seeing how many attractions I can hit before the main crowds fill up the park. Or, unfortunately, for how many steps I can do when I should be heading back to the resort to rest up for the race the next day....
Word. The first couple of times at MW, I never knew that was even a thing. Then when I do remember to try it, got told "get in line and wait". Contemplated ToT, but wasn't sure about standing around that long, and RRC never even occurred to me. Hmm. I wonder about trying for Tron?
in a lot of things compared to all of you. 
my persistence paid off!
The timing for EE depends on where if falls in the course. 7:30-9:15 would have been about right for last year, but we think that actually it cut off some of the faster runners because course adjustments made it fall a bit sooner in the course. A corral people who ran “A corral pace” (iykwim) would have been through AK before the early hours started. One year they were directing runners to single rider enthusiastically, but this past race weekend they were not (single rider wasn’t even open, or was just as long a wait as standby. I think SR was closed but I can’t remember.) So that option can be hit or miss as well.
I think I could handle the sitting down (though I could be wrong, since 2025 is my first Dopey/first marathon), but I’m not sure I could handle those stairs in the exit hallway
I can relateMAFDOE: I would likely medal in most distance traveled in the parks on race days. Even during Dopey, I was still walking between 11-13 miles a day through the parks because I cannot stand to miss out on the park experience and I thrive on making poor decisions for my legs. I DO make myself take it easy on Saturday after the half for Dopey, so I scale my walking down to about 8 miles.
With the ability to have the start and corrals in the parking lot and not on the road (saving them time and tear down costs for HM and Marathon mornings) I suspect we will get something closer to the ‘24 course moving forward.
I was thinking more of the later portions where we either turn left or right out of BB parking lot, but the start probably informs how the later parts of the course shake out.
I will admit that I am an A corral runner. Looking back at my data, it looks like I was onto Western Way (after leaving Animal Kingdom) by 7:18 a.m. AK opened at 8 a.m., with (I'm assuming) a 7:30 a.m. Early Entry for resort guests. So your estimate is good!
No estimates needed. @DopeyBadger shared the famous spreadsheet with 2 of us so we could take that task off his very full plate, and I just looked at that.
