NEWS: Disneyland Announces 1/2 Marathon.

[robbalvey]

http://disneyworldsports.disney.go.com/dwws/en_US/westcoast/listing?name=WestCoastEventListingPage

 

Registration is now open for the inaugural Disneyland® Half Marathon Weekend!

 

The Disneyland® Resort, Disney's Wide World of Sports®, and the city of Anaheim, California are happy to introduce the inaugural Disneyland® Half Marathon Weekend, the Happiest Race on Earth! Drawing from 13 years of history with the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Marathon Weekend in Florida, this new event will welcome thousands of runners to the Disneyland® Resort and the city of Anaheim in September 2006, setting a tradition for many years to come.

 

The course for this fantastic event will take runners from Disney's California Adventure™ Park, celebrating California's storied past and exciting future, to the Disneyland® Park where you will explore the fantastic "lands" of nostalgia, color and delight. Then it is on to the scenic streets of Anaheim, past Arrowhead Pond, home of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, along the Santa Ana Trail overlooking the Santa Ana River, around Angel Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and finally back through Disney's California Adventure™ Park for an exciting finish of the Happiest Race on Earth! Ideal weather and a flat loop course set the stage for an exhilarating Half Marathon designed to shatter personal bests.

 

Entry into the Disneyland® Half Marathon is $85. Entry fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. Race day registration is not available.

 

Registration fee into the Disneyland® Half Marathon includes:

 

Race entry

Official Race Program

Commemorative Race Shirt

 

All finishers will receive:

 

Commemorative Inaugural Disneyland® Half Marathon Castle Finisher Medal

Personalized Certificate

 

ELIGIBILITY

To compete, you must be 14 years of age or older and able to complete the Half Marathon in three and a half (3.5) hours or less (16-minute mile pace).

 

I know some of our readers have run the WDW one, any comments or suggestions?

 

Interesting to see that this year DL got a version of MNSSHP and next year they are getting a version of the marathon.

 

--Robb "Although in keeping with the east coast verus west coast version of stuff, DL always seems to get the scaled back version!" Alvey

[Gnome]

hmm, I could walk that and get in in time. I have about a 14 minute mile pace walk, but my calves (or calfs, or w/e) would be sore afterwords.

[SharkTums]

LOL "Scenic Streets of Anaheim"!!! Come on, you didn't clean the place up THAT much!

 

I also agree it's kind of funny that they're getting the '50%' version of the WDW marathon!

 

Good for them though, I hear it's a wonderful event at WDW.

[TheStig]

I ran the half marathon at WDW last January and it was a BLAST! It was really cool to run through Epcot and Magic Kingdom and we ran "behind the scenes" so we could see the giant water plant at Epcot and everything. I ran it in 2:45:40 which wasn't bad (a 11 minute pace roughly). If anyone want's to do it, start training now! I trained with my school for about 4 months and it payed off. Being able to run 13.1 miles without stopping is hard unless you train a lot. So im glad DL is doing this as it's a great and fun event!

 

Colin"I also will never run a mile ever again after that!"C

[arrowfanman]

LOL "Scenic Streets of Anaheim"!!! Come on, you didn't clean the place up THAT much!

 

Damn! You beat me too it!

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways, I dont pay anyone $85 to humiliate myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happiest Race on Earth

 

I guess these guys havn't been on It's a Small World!

[ahecht]

I can't believe they're having them run though the castle backwards!

[smells_like_team_disney]

$85 REGISTRATION :shock: ?! Are these things usually that much? I've always wanted to run a marathon (or half-marathon) but with those prices I'll stick to jogging aroung my neighborhood .

[maliboomer]

^ That is more then usual, but they do hover around there.