DISNEY'S DASHING DUO: Marathon mom and half-marathon daughter race through the Magic Kingdom (PHOTOS)

It’s been almost a month, but the two still get excited when they get the chance to talk about it.

Destin’s Kay Biggers, 54, and her 28-year-old daughter Katie Thrasher finished the Walt Disney World Marathon and Half Marathon respectively the first weekend in January.

“It’s an awesome race,” said Kay. “It’s cool as grits.”

This was Kay’s second time to run the Disney Marathon. Her first was nine years ago.

“It was much bigger this time,” she said, noting it about doubled in size. “It was crazy … it was huge.

When taking to the course, “all you can see in front of you is just miles and miles of people,” Kay said. More than 14,000 finished this year’s marathon, while about 24,400 finished the half marathon.

Katie’s race was first, Jan. 7, and it was her first time to do the half marathon at Disney.

“It was very overwhelming,” she said of all the people and her surroundings. “And I didn’t train for it.”

“She did ride her bike on my long runs, while I was training” her mom chimed in. “Youth is awesome or crazy...”

“As soon as I finished though I was ready to run next year,” Katie said. “I ran off sheer adrenaline the whole time. The amount of people was phenomenal.”

On race day, Katie and mom got up at 2:45 a.m. in order to be down at Disney by 4 a.m. Both the Saturday half marathon and marathon on Sunday began at 5:30 a.m.

“I did feel a little tired,” Katie said, when she got up. But when they arrived at Disney and heard the music pumping and people running around dressed in costumes, the adrenaline started pumping.

Katie explained that the race organizers divided the runners into corrals by ages and race experience and started them in waves.

At the start of each wave, fireworks would go off. “It was an awesome display,” Katie said. “I get chill bumps just thinking about it.”

Also the running route is unique to Disney in that it takes you throughout the park.

“You actually run through Cinderella’s Castle,” she said, noting her 4-year-old daughter Kallie thought that was cool.

Characters they saw along the way included Jack Sparrow, Robin Hood, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck. They also saw Mr. Fredricksen from the Disney movie “Up,” as well as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

“There was even a choir cheering you on toward the end … and they were all dressed in yellow robes,” Katie said.

“About the time you’d start getting bored there would be somebody over their doing something,” Kay said. “It was just magical.”

In order to run the events, Kay said, “you have to maintain a 16 minute mile or they will pull you off the course.”

Kay averages about an 11.54-minute mile, while Katie is at 13 something.

Kay, who picks up races throughout the year such as the Rodeo Run, the Payne Chiropractic Run and Seaside Half Marathon, usually has no problem working inside the 16-minute mark on a mile. However, at Disney she was running with a broken rib that she injured two-weeks prior to the event.

“I crashed training,” she said.

Nevertheless, she said, “the grace of God got me through it.”

Kay said about nine miles into the 26-mile event she called her husband Brad’s mother. “I said, ‘keep praying its working.’ ”

“I basically took my race mile for mile,” Kay said.

The marathon went through every park at Disney. She started at Epcot, then ran to the Magic Kingdom, then Animal Kingdom and Disney Studio, back to Epcot. “We also ran through a lot of places people never see,” Kay said.

Despite the injury, Kay did finish the marathon at 5:13.47; about 40 seconds better than she did 9 years ago.

“When I saw the gospel choir just singing away toward the end I just started crying,” Kay said.

Katie finished her half marathon in 3:01.01.

Although she had not trained, Katie said, “I knew I would finish. I would have never lived that down if I hadn’t.”

And when it was all said and done, “It was a sense of accomplishment when they put that medal around my neck,” Katie said.

Both received a long-sleeved shirt and medal for finishing their events.

When asked it they would do it again, the answer was “For sure,” Katie said. “We’ve got to have another medal and T-shirt. And the marathon is not out of the question, but it will require training.”

Besides, “It was a great start for the new year,” she added.