This weekend is the weekend for the Disneyland Half Marathon, & tons of preperation work has been going on through-out the Disneyland Resort, & a couple of smaller events were held yesterday morning. So here are pictures of the preparation & events (plus a few other things) as taken by David “Darkbeer” Michael:
Special park hours are in effect today
The Health & Fitness Expo was held in one of the ballrooms at the Disneyland Hotel
This is where you would of signed in for the various races
Concept art for the DVC Villas coming to the Grand Californian, as seen at the Health & Fitness Expo
The starting point for the Half Marathon
And the finish point
A few smaller races were held yesterday morning
They made use of the old Green Army Men stand that used to be outside the Esplanade promoting Toy Story Midway Mania
The starting point for most of these smaller races was the Timon parking lot
One of the few times that Heelys are welcome in Disney parks
Signs directing people to each of the different races inside DCA
The finish point in Paradise Pier
The Toy Story characters were there to celebrate
This basically looks like a crawling race for very young kids… A bit stupid if you ask me!
Now moving away from the Half Marathon… Halloween Time is now being promoted before the security tents
Filming of some sort going on in New Orleans Square
Construction walls in front of the old Fantasyland Skyway Station
This sign is up in front of the upcoming DCA Preview Center
Finally, auditions were held yesterday at the ESPN Zone, for the ABC show Wipeout
