First Look at runDisney 2023 Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend Merchandise

OG RunnerFeb 15, 2026

A new reason why only 1% of the population have run a marathon. :)

RteetzFeb 14, 2026

Most charities require much more than that for Boston now. Charity I ran Chicago with requires a $12,000 minimum.

OG RunnerFeb 14, 2026

I understand exactly what you mean. I live in the Northeast and have always wanted to run the Boston Marathon. I am not quite fast enough to qualify. You can get a charity bib. They go for about $7,500. I see the charity bibs as a way to get into a race but a Disney registration is pretty high already, add the donations you need to get for the charity bib can make it too expensive. That is probably why not everyone is a RunDisney Club member.

RteetzFeb 13, 2026

I don't think you need a huge social media presence. You start out with family and friends. Any little bit helps, $10, $25, etc. I would also suggest you put the amount the bib would have cost you anyways towards the fundraising. Lots of people will do Super Bowl pools or sponsor a mile type options too to raise money.

OG RunnerFeb 13, 2026

I had tried to sign up for the 2024 marathon. I was in the que for over an hour and all of the races sold out before I got through. All four races and the challenges.

surfsupdonFeb 12, 2026

It's great! But my question is, how do you secure the money to pay for the bib? I am only a HS teacher, I do not have a large social media platform or excess monies. As much as I want to run, I do not want to pay $1000 to run. How do you generate others to pay for the charity bib? I feel and see tnhat charities work for the social media darling, but how does it work for the normal person?

the.dreamfinderFeb 12, 2026

Hasn’t been posted yet, but this org will drop charity bibs soon. https://www.bravelikegabe.org/get-involved

the.dreamfinderFeb 12, 2026

It is! I thought this would be an easier race to sign up for compared to, say, 2024 Disneyland Half Marathon.

OG RunnerFeb 12, 2026

Wow, given all of these accounts, for once I just got lucky registering for a RunDisney race. I did do a small video, I need to figure out how to edit. I start it off with a shot of my computer stating, "I think this is the hardest part of any RunDisney race."

the.dreamfinderFeb 12, 2026

As of 11:51 EST, No Kid Hungry has 10k and Half bibs. I’ll be running with them for the challenge. https://p2p.onecause.com/2026winedine

surfsupdonFeb 12, 2026

And based upon the language that Disney used: If you enter the waiting room early, you will be randomly assigned a place at 10am. All who enter after 10am, will be first come first served AFTER the waiting room folk. Which SHOULD mean, that absolutely nobody who signed in at 10a or after should have been able to register because I, who was in the waiting room, was unable to register. However, there are many cases of people who logged in after 10 who were able to register. So none of it makes any sense based off of Disney's own posted rules.

RteetzFeb 11, 2026

The waiting room was open over an hour before registration time. No matter what time you enter the waiting room tho the queue is random and is assigned when registration actually opens at roughly 10AM ET.

surfsupdonFeb 11, 2026

Thanks for the tip, @Demarke I am bitter towards them right now, as an OG runner since 2007. But I am allowed.

DemarkeFeb 11, 2026

The pre-queue opened earlier than normal (usually it has opened at 9:45am), I joined it around 9:30am give or take a couple minutes and had the same results as the others here that didn't get through until everything was completely sold out (fortunately, I snagged a charity challenge bib, $600 more than regular registration, but at least it's for a good cause :)). I don't know how you saw the screen with the individual races (unless you had the URL for that and went directly there), the main page (rundisney.com) was completely dedicated to funneling people into the pre-queue waiting area when I pulled it up and it told you to come back later if you were looking for anything other than W&D registration. Also different (I think), in the past, all browsers seemed to refresh pretty much simultaneously right at 10:00am and you'd soon see how long the wait times were for each. This time, I noticed the clock hit 10:00am and none of mine auto refreshed for 5-10 seconds (seemed longer), then one refreshed into the main queue, then a second or two later another, then a few seconds later another and so on. In the midst of this, I manually refreshed one window that hadn't auto refreshed and it immediately changed to the main-queue screen. This makes me think that it may be worthwhile to start furiously clicking the mouse to manually refresh one browser shortly before 10:00am until it lets you in. If it's slowly randomly auto-refreshing browsers to assign spots in the main-queue, that may help get an earlier slot in the future (and if it doesn't you can still have a few others open the regular way).