The Dopey Challenge is a worthy endeavor if you are looking for a good excuse to bring your family out for a long weekend at Disney World. Of course, the upside to this morning craziness is that you’ve got all day to explore the park, all weekend long. By the time you finish, the park’s first patrons will be filtering in for the day.

New York City might shut down for marathon weekend, but not Disney World-the show must go on, so you’ll be up and ready to roll before sunrise. The Disney World races start with a plume of fireworks that light up the pre-dawn sky before the park officially opens. Instead of getting up at 5:30 AM, you’ll be starting your race at that time-all four days! Anyone who’s run a big city marathon is familiar with the crack-of-dawn wake-up routine on race day, but at Disney World, it goes a step further. If you do the Dopey Challenge, starting the Thursday of race weekend, you’re in for a race every morning from Thursday through Sunday. The craziest of these multi-event challenges at a big-city marathon might be Walt Disney Marathon’s “Dopey Challenge.” This involves running a 5k, 10k, half-marathon, and marathon-in that order-over the course of a long weekend. Or even downright dopey.īig road running events with multiple races are increasingly promoting “doubleheader” style participation, where you run more than one of the races being put on in the same weekend. If running a marathon in the happiest place in the world isn’t good enough for you, try getting goofy.

Running four races in four days in Florida’s Walt Disney World Resort

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