runDisney Reveals Meal-Themed Races and Registration Dates for 2025 Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon Weekend

surfsupdon3 hours ago

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.

Rteetz4 hours ago

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.

surfsupdon6 hours ago

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

Demarke6 hours ago

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).

OG Runner12 hours ago

I know in this case that is did you no good, but how did you enter the waiting room that early? I went to RunDisney and I could not get by the screen noting the races until much later.

surfsupdon12 hours ago

I am East Coast. Apparently, the waiting room was available as early as 9am, and I entered the waiting room at 9:22a. But it did me absolutely no good.

OG Runner12 hours ago

I had seen an advertisement recently by RunDisney stating they were going to make more entries available for the 5K races.

OG Runner13 hours ago

How did you get in at 9:22am? Do you live to the West? I did not get in until about 9:55am Eastern Standard Time.

OG Runner13 hours ago

I am sorry, but I am so stinking happy. I am signed up for the 2026 Wine & Dine Half Marathon. It was a complete nightmare. I finally got in and my wait was over and hour, then it began to count down. Several times it went back up a bit. The 10k was sold out before I even got to register, but I will be there.

surfsupdon1 day ago

That's what stinks- I was in so early! They allowed you in much earlier than in years past and I think it messed me up!!

uncle jimmy1 day ago

I saw your post and signed in right after that to get my husband in for the 5 and 10K and right as it was my time the 10k sold out and Bummer ya'll Charity and telegram it is

the.dreamfinder1 day ago

I know I’ll probably lose the spot for the half, but I’m going to wait to apply to more until tomorrow in case there was an issue. Another group opens their bibs on 2/25 so I will be available for that one.

Demarke1 day ago

Not sure if Sophie and Madigan's still has availability, but it let me right through to payment. I haven't been sent my runDisney registration yet, but imagine that takes awhile, but seem to be confirmed in there. I also had applied to HopeStory first and seemed to be waitlisted, so sought out the other. Only $1150 for the challenge, which also seems lower than most other options. EDIT: Just looked, they are out of the Challenge, but still have all other races available if interested https://sophieandmadigansplayground.org/dwdhmw_signup.php

the.dreamfinder1 day ago

Waitlisted for HopeStory and Girl Scouts. Another group opens up at the end of the month so we'll see.