The Happiest Marathon on Earth, or something ;D Get more info right here, linked for your convenience because they don't update all their pages at the right times when you'd expect so if you do a Yahoo! search you will get links to the official pages that are out of date ("Register for the 2007 Marathon!").
You can also find more information about their other races if you do some digging, but I've saved you a bit of that trouble, too. For some reason they bury a lot of their race info under "Endurance" sports rather than just calling them "races". Complicated!
Meanwhile here's a map of the Half Marathon course... I love looking at that thing. You go right through Cinderella's Castle! It's amazing to me that people can run that far, you know. Epcot and the Magic Kingdom are NOT that close together; it really brings home the distance involved.
Then again this one REALLY does it. This is the Marathon course. Look at that - you're up to ten miles before you even make it to the Magic Kingdom!! They really have you running around in Epcot more at the start. It looks like the Blue Marathon start is the way to go if you want to see much of the World Showcase (run around the lagoon, mmmm, nice) and Red will get you all through Future World before the two merge. Looks like you hit the parking lot of the Animal Kingdom around mile 15, then do a loop around the outskirts of that park - I guess you don't want to disturb the animals, heh - and then you get within sight of Hollywood Studios around mile 22. Oh and look - mile 24 is in the Hotel District! How niiiiice. ;) (Actually I love Disney hotels. That would be kind of neat.) Then once you get to mile 25, which of course is the easy part (note: that is a joke) you finish up in Epcot again.
Can do I this? Pwease? What an incentive to keep going and finish, man! Think of all the things you get to see!
For the record, there is a "Circle of Life" 5K around the Animal Kingdom that same weekend.
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