I am for a few days in Orlando inside Disney and was curious about running options. Are there any trails here? Also, what about swimming?
No rental car so I guess that limits the range.
Herbert, if you’re inside the parks your best bet for running would be to take the ferry over to the Ft Wilderness campground and jog around there. There are sidewalks and roads that are pretty good for running and you’ll be on the Florida 70.3 course. Just grab a park map and go. Lots of pools around but none are meant for lap swimming and you can’t swim in the lagoon either.
The YM aquatic center’s just down the road from you on the I-5. Otherwise the NTC is 45 mins away in Clermont. Call Tom Z to help you out. I used to run a lot in Celebration, across the highway from you. It’s a very beautiful, but strange place. Lucky you; it’s below zero here. Enjoy, and have a great beer at Sherlock’s in Celebration.
He doesn’t have a car. Also it is I-4
Mears shuttle.
Depends on how bad he wants to.
Just curious, are you also going to that one IBM event?
If you’re going to be walking around the parks, forget about running. It’s all concrete, all the time and it will kill your legs. If you do run, good luck. I asked around numerous times for a running map and was always told that they had one, they just couldn’t find it at the moment (Polynesian & Wilderness Lodge). Probably the best bet is to run around Ft. wilderness.
Just curious, are you also going to that one IBM event?
My wife is here at a conference and I am working out of a hotel room here. 
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If you’re at the Swan or Dolphin you can run loops around the lagoon park thing they have there. They claimed it was a mile, but i think it’s closer to a km.
A few months ago we stayed at the French Quarter. there was a running path that went from hotel to hotel on the complex. It followed “the river” There was a lot of people running it and the surface was blacktop.
2 good sites for those who want to get workouts in while traveling, lot’s of flat running in and around the Disney hotels and the Swan/Dolphin has a 33yrd lapper…
http://athleticmindedtraveler.com/home.php
http://www.swimmersguide.com/
swimming! they’ve got all those resort pools! Don’t swim over the kids.
Did you go on Space Mountain and the Tower of Terror? Those are my FAVORITES.
Herbert,
I have two friends who are at a medical conference in Orlando…perhaps you are all at the same event. They are both runners (he did Disney mary over the weekend) and I am sure they’ll be running this week. If you’d like, PM me with the name of the conference and I will do some checking to see if I can hook you up with them.
Mike
www.disneyrunning.com has links to the various running paths mapped out. You can make the loop around the Boardwalk/Beach/Yacht Club area bigger by running around the outer perimeter of the hotels, or add on out/backs up to Hollywood Studios.
Best lap pools on property at Swan and Dolphin. Coronado springs has a lap pool as well.
I guess you have been to disney before! Myself I was planning on running over there but I was too busy going trought the parks like a kid that I didnt have time or too tired to run!
Herbert
get a pic with cinderella and snow white together in a ST shirt!