Marathon Weekend 2026

[Poohverine]

SAFD: First Dopey and I’m just hoping to survive to the end. Next main goal is to make it to Everest during the marathon

Otherwise, priorities are just to have fun, stop for characters, and enjoy the atmosphere of the weekend! I haven’t run too much since running the Chicago Marathon in October, so just hoping all that training carries over. They say the race is a celebration of all the training, so I’m basically viewing Marathon Weekend as the afterparty!

 

[Herding_Cats]

For any runners who are worried about struggling during the marathon - feel free to grab my mobile # at a meetup - if I'm nearby I'm happy to slowdown or speedup to run with you for a bit or any kind of support. My pace for the marathon tends to be all over the place and I've had the opportunity to run with some DIS folks for part of the marathon in the past. I have no time goals other than finishing and riding an attraction or two. When I wiped out in MK during the full in 2022 (my first Dopey) and was worried about finishing, running with someone I had met at the morning meetup for the last part of the race really helped so I am happy to return the favour.

I was planning on getting a few numbers at the morning meetups or HH as well. (Seeeeee? This is more reasons to come to the meetups!)

 

[Baloo in MI]

SAFD:
Just finish, and have fun while doing it! Those are my goals. My wife and older daughter are doing their first 10k’s so we are all going to do them together and my younger daughter and future SIL will be running the other three races for their first Dopey’s and my tenth. That is honestly mind boggling to me - how has so much time gone by!! Oh, yeah, I’m old…

 

[DisneyGamer11]

First WDW Marathon but I've done 4x W&D Half's - are there any notorious bottlenecks I should mentally prepare for on the Marathon course? I imagine I'll be in Corral C or D with a submitted 2:18 HM POT.

 

[fatmanatee]

First WDW Marathon but I've done 4x W&D Half's - are there any notorious bottlenecks I should mentally prepare for on the Marathon course? I imagine I'll be in Corral C or D with a submitted 2:18 HM POT.

2:18 should be C, latest known cutoff is 2:22.

Not sure it’ll impact you but toughest bottleneck is probably the little pedestrian bridge at one of the resorts not too far off from MK. I didn’t get backed up from B but as I was passing over I thought “oh this could be a problem”, and I think it was for later corrals. You’ll prob be ok but something to keep in mind.