Posted on Sunday, 8th January 2012 by Dave Parfitt

During this first full weekend of 2012, distance runners from around the world flocked to Walt Disney World for what has become one of the largest weekend of races in the country.  Over 56,000 people registered for one of the Disney races including: 8,000 in Friday’s Family Fiesta 5K, 26,500 in Saturday’s half marathon, and [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 4th September 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Labor Day Weekend meant it was time for the 6th annual Disneyland Half Marathon.  This year, 15,000 competitors lined up to complete the 13.1 mile course, and that didn’t “Sound Dangerous” at all to actor Drew Carey - who was among the sold out field.  Runners and walkers from 49 states (where’s South Dakota? Represent!) and 23 [...]

Tags: Disneyland Half Marathon, Drew Carey, Half Marathon, Humberto Rojas, Rachel Booth, RunDisney
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Posted on Wednesday, 20th April 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Tuesday, April 19, runDisney announced the newest race in their endurance series.  The Tinker Bell Half Marathon will debut in Disneyland on Sunday, January 29, 2012.  As September’s Disneyland Half Marathon filled in record time, the new California race will be another option for those looking to run through Walt Disney’s original theme park.  Similar to [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 27th February 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Quick on the heels of January’s Walt Disney World Marathon weekend comes Disney’s Princess Half Marathon.  Early Sunday morning, February 27th, a record field of over 17,000 princesses laced up their running shoes (or glass slippers) to run or walk from Epcot to the Magic Kingdom and back.  The field also included two past winners of the reality television show [...]

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Posted on Monday, 24th January 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Interview with runDisney Training Consultant Jeff Galloway Last year the Disney Endurance Series rebranded itself as runDisney, and with the change brought in Olympian Jeff Galloway as the official training consultant for their series of events.  Galloway competed in the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, and has served as coach to over 200,000 runners and [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 11th January 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Saturday, January 8 the Walt Disney World Half Marathon took place.  An early morning tour of 2 of the 4 Disney theme parks, the half marathon course started right outside Epcot, went up to and through the Magic Kingdom, and ended back at Epcot.  27,000 runners (a new record) signed up for the race, and you [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 26th September 2010 by Nancy Johnson

See all of those runners in the photo below?  There are 14,000 of them, if you want to be precise – and that is a 4-lane road they are on.  They all gathered at 4AM on September 5, 2010 to run in the 5th Anniversary of the Disneyland Half Marathon at the Disneyland Resort in [...]

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