Running at Caribbean Beach Resort

[Yorkieal]

Hi

We're visiting WDW for the first time from the UK for our honeymoon next week and are staying at the DBR. It's actually the first of two honeymoons as we're running the New York marathon in November as our second!

With that in mind, we're both deep into our training for the event and would like to keep it up whilst in WDW, running very early in the morning to avoid the heat. We've seen the trail around the lake at the CBR is around 3KM but does anyone know of any other routes we could run nearby (i.e. walkable from the resort). Can you run the perimeter of the resort? Or to another resort?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks guys

 

[michigandergirl]

You might want to ask the runners over on the RunDisney forum. They are a wealth of information and I'm sure they'll have some suggestions for you.

 

[plutolovr]

Hi

We're visiting WDW for the first time from the UK for our honeymoon next week and are staying at the DBR. It's actually the first of two honeymoons as we're running the New York marathon in November as our second!

With that in mind, we're both deep into our training for the event and would like to keep it up whilst in WDW, running very early in the morning to avoid the heat. We've seen the trail around the lake at the CBR is around 3KM but does anyone know of any other routes we could run nearby (i.e. walkable from the resort). Can you run the perimeter of the resort? Or to another resort?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks guys

The roads outside the resort are not safe or meant for pedestrians. If you can get yourself over to the Boardwalk area there is a great running route that is longer. You can run around Crescent Lake and down to Hollywood Studios.

 

[Deb & Bill]

You might try this site: http://www.allears.net/btp/running.htm

You might even try to get over to Pop Century and AOA since they are right next to CBR. But you are probably not going to get a long route unless you repeat. And stay off the roads; you will be stopped by Disney Security since it isn't safe to run on the roads anywhere except during a race.

 

[JPMango]

I stayed at Pop Century last year and I was able to find a back employee parking area and road that connected POP with Caribbean beach. I was able to do about an hour worth of running without repeating any areas between Pop/AOA/Caribbean beach.

With that said, I hate running in loops for my long runs. I was a month out from my marathon when I traveled down to Disney. I did a long run the day before we left and did another one when we got back (we stayed for 8 days). Then while at Disney I only did speed workouts and slow miles. There are some training plans that have you focus more on fast shorter milage than the longer slow runs. I did this and felt like my run times did not suffer- if anything I felt a little stronger.

Good luck- Caribbean beach was beautiful early in the morning with the lake and sunrise!!!