Can you even imagine? Absolutely incredible.īuses started running from the resorts at 2:30 a.m. There were 59 runners at this year’s race that have done every single one of those marathons. ![]() This year was the 30th anniversary of the runDisney marathon and the 10th anniversary of the Dopey Challenge. We’d all been in the metaphorical trenches for a while with each other at this point. This alone might have explained some of the incredible energy on the course. So likely upwards of a third of the runners at this year’s marathon were doing it as a final race of their Dopey Challenge. ![]() While I’m not sure exactly how many people ran the full this year, it’s usually somewhere in the range of 20,000-25,000 people – and we’d heard that about 8,000 of those runners were doing it as a part of Dopey this year. ![]() At last we come to the final race of Walt Disney World’s 2023 runDisney Marathon Weekend – the marathon itself.īecause so many runners do the Goofy Challenge (the half marathon and full marathon – 39.3 total miles) or the Dopey Challenge (the 5K, 10K, half marathon, and full marathon – 48.6 total miles), runDisney’s Marathon Weekend might be the only time when you’ll hear someone saying they’re “just” running a full marathon.
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