The Fourth Annual Disneyland Half Marathon is coming up on Sunday, September 6. Lee and I will be running it for the second time – we ran the Inaugural event in 2006.

I decided to run it this year because of this spiffy extra medal that Disney offers – if you finish either the Walt Disney World Marathon/Half Marathon or the Princess Half Marathon in Florida, and then run the Disneyland Half Marathon in the same calendar year, you get a special “coast-to-coast” medal in addition to the regular medals you get for finishing the race. Since I ran the Princess Half Marathon in March, I am eligible this year. This picture does not do it justice – I’ve seen other photos of it, and it’s huge, and just gorgeous. I’m really looking forward to adding it to my collection! 🙂

With the construction going on at DCA the race course has been changed this year. We will still run through both parks, but instead of running past Paradise Pier at the beginning and Soarin’ at the end, it’s reversed. The route we take through Disneyland is different than I remember, too – looks like we don’t run down Main Street at all, and instead we exit the park back in Critter Country. We won’t run through Downtown Disney at all, though I don’t think that’s such a bad thing – there were lots of people. I was really hoping they would change something in the “scenic streets of Anaheim” section, where we wind back and forth through the industrial park area for several miles, but we’ll be doing that again. Looks like we will get to run on the field at Angels’ Stadium again, though, and that was a lot of fun last time.

The map of the race course is HERE

So that’s what we’ll be doing in a couple of weeks…wish us luck!

Disneyland AllEars® Meet and Greet!

AllEars® Team members Deb Wills, Laura Gilbreath, Lisa Berton and Cathy Bock invite you to come by and say “Hello!” at 11 a.m. on Sunday, October 11, 2009, at the Carnation Plaza Gardens in Disneyland.

Here’s a picture of the entrance to the Plaza Gardens, which is located between Frontierland and the castle.