Sounds like you are doing AWESOME yourself! Congrats on W&D and the Dark Side Challenge…those are EXCELLENT choices for some of your first races. You will LOOOOVE Wine & Dine! I’ll bet you’ll be signing up for Dopey before you know it.

Happy to talk photos! So runDisney does have photographers along the course (MarathonFoto), and I always buy them. As far as pricing, they’re EXPENSIVE, but to me the memories are worth it. I don’t even think twice about it. I also sometimes have fellow runners or runDisney volunteers/cast members take pictures with my own camera along the course. In the parks, I also always invest in Memory Maker; I buy it in advance in order to save a little bit of money. Again, a lot of people find it to be a rip-off, which it may very well be…but I make sure we get our money’s worth by stopping pretty much every photographer I see, lol. I just automatically budget photo costs into our trip because they’re super important to me.

That being said, Memory Maker is NOT part of the race experience; the photographers along the course will have their own separate prices and photo packages, and you’ll get a link to them after your race via your bib number. If you’re thinking of buying them, they do sometimes have discounts available if you buy in advance (check the expo), and be sure to ham it up for every photographer you see so you can get tons of options. I always go the digital download route, so I can have ALL the pictures and edit and print to my heart’s content.

Hope that helps, and if you have any other questions, you know where to find me!

I have one question about all your amazing runDisney Photos. Are these shot by Disney Photographers or MarathonFoto? I noticed you have posted many MarathonFoto proofs. We almost always purchase Disney Memory Maker pass for our weeklong WDW trips so that we can take as many photos as we want and never have to worry about picking our favorites (and the one time we didn’t we ended up buying more a la carte photos than we would of spent on the Memory Maker pass). Are the race photos linked to Memory Maker account? How do you get the race photos (I assume you are linked to your bib number somehow).

Thanks for your blog. I have bookmarked and look forward to reading more (and completing what I haven’t). I’ll be looking for a blog post about your WnD outfits, so I can be on the lookout for you (either before or after the race since you will definitely be finishing Waaaaay before me) and say hello.

Randy