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@xulf , I'm registered for Boston 2026, too!! Game on.
My nephew, Paul B, is planning to pursue a cancer-related charity entry so that he can join me. (He was the one that ran with me on the July 4 5K.)
Hush you. It's a magic elixir that refreshes and revives. Pretty sure it's growing my hair back, too!
Realistically, you might be looking at a month of healing. Damaged hammies are no joke.
That’s ungood. Florida IM is on Nov 1. It will be more important to be healthy than to push an injury.Realistically, you might be looking at a month of healing. Damaged hammies are no joke.
You know as well as anyone, only way it's going to heal up is resting it which, if you have a race beginning November, might work out. You're going to taper the last two weeks anyhow. Your level of fitness should be about as good as it's going to be so how do you kinda maintain that without 1. causing more damage and 2. maintaining fitness as best as possible.
Yeah, we also have a century ride September 20 and a duathlon September 27. I can miss those if necessary.
What were the circumstances of the injury? I've been hopeful that the 10k crowd is reasonably well-protected from random bad old man injuries by virtue of our fitness, but I'd be lying if it's not in the back of my mind when I go to play pickleball or something like that.
I’ve been increasing my running and putting in over 12 hours weekly between the disciplines. Tuesday night was a strong brick - 26 mile ride, 2 mile run. Wednesday morning was intervals. I had just finished my third 4 minute interval, which included a down hill portion. I felt a niggle in my right hip, thought “that’s new, I’ll rest in a few miles” maybe ten steps later my right leg gave out and I found myself doing an involuntary push-up. I stopped the Garmin, stood up and thought about continuing but the hammy felt off. So I walked a few steps and realized quickly that I was not running more.
The projection websites are saying you need 5+ minutes. Hopefully they are wrong and you find a way to squeak into Boston in April. Rooting for you to join us!Yeah. I have a 3:05 buffer for Boston 3:11:55 vs 3:15:00). I'd need <3:10 for Chicago 26 now.Some of the time qualifiers are the same as Boston. The thing about Chicago is there is no buffer to contend with. If you meet the time, you are in. Boston isn't like that.I just registered for Boston and decided to check on Chicago's registration page for 2026. After changing the qualifying times...making them harder by 10 minutes for automatic qualifiers in 2025...they have made it an additional 5 minutes harder for 2026.
I had an auto qualifying time for 2024 at a younger age bracket but went with the Columbus Marathon to try and qualify for Boston. Now, I will have to go back into the lottery unless I pull off a miracle in my October race.
Chicago now has harder qualifications than Boston.
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A week later, I rode 90 Sunday and have a century ride tomorrow. I haven’t ran on it but I’ve been walking every day And swimming or lifting every morning.
My brother is an ultra guy, completed 26/28 runs so far. His goal is a buckle in all 50 states so he's past the halfway point. Doing Arkansas in a couple of weeks then he trains for Hurt in Hawaii. Don't think he has Michigan yet so this may be an option for him.If there's any ultra endurance maniacs in here i thought i would mention the Marji Gesick that takes place in Marquette Michigan. It's primarily a mountain bike race, but also has a few runs involved, the most formidable being the 100 (which is actually closer to 107, but who's counting).
The 100mi run started today at 8am est and they have 48hrs and 30 mins to complete it. My wife and I are involved in putting on the race along with many others from the community aswell. We're all very proud of it and the notoriety it's brought to the area. Registration for 2026 will be in October if anyone is looking for a challenge next year and want to come to a new and beautiful place they may never otherwise see.
Find your limits. Finish what you start.
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Buckle for this one is 28hrs. Pass it along to him and we'd love to see him there next year!My brother is an ultra guy, completed 26/28 runs so far. His goal is a buckle in all 50 states so he's past the halfway point. Doing Arkansas in a couple of weeks then he trains for Hurt in Hawaii. Don't think he has Michigan yet so this may be an option for him.If there's any ultra endurance maniacs in here i thought i would mention the Marji Gesick that takes place in Marquette Michigan. It's primarily a mountain bike race, but also has a few runs involved, the most formidable being the 100 (which is actually closer to 107, but who's counting).
The 100mi run started today at 8am est and they have 48hrs and 30 mins to complete it. My wife and I are involved in putting on the race along with many others from the community aswell. We're all very proud of it and the notoriety it's brought to the area. Registration for 2026 will be in October if anyone is looking for a challenge next year and want to come to a new and beautiful place they may never otherwise see.
Find your limits. Finish what you start.
906 906AT marji gesick ultra-endurance event Michigan upper peninsula run bike ishpeming marquette
Curious, how hilly and how much elevation we talking about? I ask because 48 hrs is a very generous cutoff. The 28 hr buckle is about right though.Buckle for this one is 28hrs. Pass it along to him and we'd love to see him there next year!My brother is an ultra guy, completed 26/28 runs so far. His goal is a buckle in all 50 states so he's past the halfway point. Doing Arkansas in a couple of weeks then he trains for Hurt in Hawaii. Don't think he has Michigan yet so this may be an option for him.If there's any ultra endurance maniacs in here i thought i would mention the Marji Gesick that takes place in Marquette Michigan. It's primarily a mountain bike race, but also has a few runs involved, the most formidable being the 100 (which is actually closer to 107, but who's counting).
The 100mi run started today at 8am est and they have 48hrs and 30 mins to complete it. My wife and I are involved in putting on the race along with many others from the community aswell. We're all very proud of it and the notoriety it's brought to the area. Registration for 2026 will be in October if anyone is looking for a challenge next year and want to come to a new and beautiful place they may never otherwise see.
Find your limits. Finish what you start.
906 906AT marji gesick ultra-endurance event Michigan upper peninsula run bike ishpeming marquette
VERY hilly, VERY rooty, VERY rocky. 12k ft of climbing in spurts of mostly say 100ft climbs or less give or takeCurious, how hilly and how much elevation we talking about?Buckle for this one is 28hrs. Pass it along to him and we'd love to see him there next year!My brother is an ultra guy, completed 26/28 runs so far. His goal is a buckle in all 50 states so he's past the halfway point. Doing Arkansas in a couple of weeks then he trains for Hurt in Hawaii. Don't think he has Michigan yet so this may be an option for him.If there's any ultra endurance maniacs in here i thought i would mention the Marji Gesick that takes place in Marquette Michigan. It's primarily a mountain bike race, but also has a few runs involved, the most formidable being the 100 (which is actually closer to 107, but who's counting).
The 100mi run started today at 8am est and they have 48hrs and 30 mins to complete it. My wife and I are involved in putting on the race along with many others from the community aswell. We're all very proud of it and the notoriety it's brought to the area. Registration for 2026 will be in October if anyone is looking for a challenge next year and want to come to a new and beautiful place they may never otherwise see.
Find your limits. Finish what you start.
906 906AT marji gesick ultra-endurance event Michigan upper peninsula run bike ishpeming marquette
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If he were to do it and you crewed for him and needed the preferred spots and locations for support you can hit me up and I'd be happy to offer way points or any other advice, where the easy parts are and where it gets pretty hairy. There's a few "official" aid stations, but it is represented as a self supported endeavor (there's a ton of community support out there though). Coming ahead of time for a pre race scout is always recommended and a tour of the course could probably be arranged.
It's actually not that bad in there. The real monster on this course is the final 20 miles. The hills, roots, rocks are absolutely relentless.
I'm not familiar with the UP, but I'm very familiar with this sort of terrain. It's not the climbing that does you in, it's the constant up-and-down, especially on tight / technical trails - looking specifically at the finish. It wears on you both physically and especially mentally, lose focus for 2-3 seconds and next thing you know clipped a root and slid down a small embankment and lord knows what nature you clipped along the way. I found a new to me one recently in which I couldn't help but chuckle that it took me > 14 mins to transverse one of the miles and this was just a ~7 mile workout. I had to think about every step throughout this mile else something unpleasant may happen. I can only imagine trying to do that on hour 20something. Yeeeesh
Your assessment is spot on though. The distance is hard, the total elevation is hard, but the technical aspect is the real challenge.
I swear I wrote what I did before reading this - consider it reaffirmation!
It's even funner in the dark at night when you here someone go Whomp! and then get up and say "I'm ok!"
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That's what slowly ground me down in my 40 miler. Every muscle in my feet was screaming after hours of never having a flat footfall, and that course was gentler than anything in PA and I'm sure gentler than this UP one.
So true. Even my short 25k trail run, on a “mountain” I used to run all the time, 8-10 years ago, was extremely humbling earlier this year. And that’s not close to this.
If you remember hit me up next fall if you need volunteers. My running days are all but over but I would totally dig this.
There is a 15mi option (which takes place on the hardest part of the course) for something plenty hard without without being completely insane. 97 people signed up this year and starts at 10am today. Winner last year did it in about 3:15 and the average finishing time is in the 5hr and change range.
Absolutely
. It's a pretty fun event whether it's competing, volunteering, or crewing. I used to compete in the mountain bike event which is some classic tier 2 fun, but taking on more of the set up, crewing, aid station side of it has been just as good in a different way. Beautiful time of year up here too. You can never have enough people helping, watching, hanging out (some of the aid stations get rowdy in the best ways possible). I'll give ya a heads up next year as the time gets closer.
You aren't gumming up the thread. This is running pr0n for most in here.
(28 for a buckle, cut off is noon) With the weather so good there's high expectations for some great times.
It moved.Few vids from the start of the mtb race (le mans start because we're cruel, runners need to ride a bike the first mile) and I'm off to help set up the main aid station for the last 10 mile push.
These are the last smiles a lot of people will have today.
Somehow I didn’t notice that option. That is pretty tempting, especially if @ChiefD and some other Midwest FBGs will be there. I did enjoy a few days in the UP a few years back. Somewhere in my Strava log is a run through Northern Michigan’s campus and its surrounding area.
Forsure, a year feels like a decade these days. No expectations of anyone committing to a race a year from now, or at all. There hasn't been a need for a cap on runners like with bikers and I don't think there's any plan for it, so runners have plenty of time.
Ugh. I'm sorry. Heartbreaking.No Boston for me
The cutoff ended up being 4 min 34 sec faster than qualifying times. I was 3 min 5 sec.
Not sure where this leaves me in my running journey. All the qualifying times are getting harder and there is no way for me to keep up with these changes.
First of all -No Boston for me
The cutoff ended up being 4 min 34 sec faster than qualifying times. I was 3 min 5 sec.
Not sure where this leaves me in my running journey. All the qualifying times are getting harder and there is no way for me to keep up with these changes.
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I see what you did there
Ugh. I'm sorry. Heartbreaking.No Boston for me
The cutoff ended up being 4 min 34 sec faster than qualifying times. I was 3 min 5 sec.
Not sure where this leaves me in my running journey. All the qualifying times are getting harder and there is no way for me to keep up with these changes.
I know its not any consolation but I think the Boston times will start to level off. They have removed (effective with the 2027 race) the ability to double dip. There were a couple weeks every year where people could run a race and qualify for two years of Boston. They have removed that loop hole.
They have added a "tax" to downhill races over 1500 feet of net elevation loss, so that should temper some BQ's from those races as well.
But yes, Boston is such a draw and marathoning is becoming cool/bucket list thing, so more people are running and running fast.
