Walt Disney World Marathon

Hi, it's Julie.

I am currently training for the 2027 Walt Disney World Marathon in January.

Since March, I've been really struggling with IT band syndrome and then June 4th, my knee decided to swell and I've been dealing with runner's knee.

So my training has been walking a lot.

Hi, I'm Lindsay.

And I'm Thomas.

And we're training for the 2027 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend 5K.

Our journey to signing up for this race actually goes back a couple of years.

Mm-hmm.

So if you're running the New York Marathon or the Chicago Marathon or the Tokyo Marathon or the Walt Disney World Marathon, like, it's the same 26.2 miles.

And so I think, you know, I think a lot of people kind of see it from the outside, particularly who are not runners initially, you know, going in, and, and underestimate that aspect of it.

Mm-hmm.

You know, my lifestyle was not good.

Fortuitously, in my inbox, I get an email from none other than Mickey Mouse, quite literally, telling me to [chuckles] sign up for the Disney Marathon.

Now, this is before the Disney Marathon became, like, a click fest, that you had to be the f- quickest one to hit register as soon as it goes on sale, uh, that, that time in April.

And I, I called my wife.

I said, it, you know, this is before sort of text message and all that, and I said, "Look, I think this can help me improve my health situation.

What do you think, Nihad?" And she says, "Well, you can't even run 400 yards, but I support you." So that was September 2005, and I, I've never looked back, right? So I did, I did the Disney Marathon on 16 weeks.

I found some online, like, quick training program that got me ready.

And after that, I thought running by itself was a little boring.

I'm really looking forward to that as well.

And then in January, I'm heading down again for the Walt Disney World Marathon weekend.

I'm running Dopey again this year.

I'm going to be rooming with my pal Corey over at Pop Century.

So we get home from...

We did the Disney World Marathon weekend, 2017.

And so 30 for Freedom was one year old.

And I had done the Dopey Challenge.

So the trivia question I posed to you was on the episode with Lisa DiNardo-Glassner, whose new book traces the history of the run Disney races all the way back to the very first one.

So your question was to tell me in what year was the inaugural Walt Disney World Marathon run for the first time? Thanks to you and all of you who entered and got this one correct and knew that it was held in January 1994, where approximately 8,200, which is so much I took all the correct entries, randomly selected one.

Last week, last trivia week, we were playing for a WDW Radio keychain, stickers, a pin, a patch, and a mystery prize.

And last week's winner, randomly selected, is...