Challenge participants will start with the William A. Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon (8,000 capacity)įor those interested in the ultimate running experience, the Great Grandma’s Challenge is again being offered as part of the 2023 race weekend. There will be virtual options for all of the weekend’s races, as well.

To register or to find more information, please visit .Īll Grandma’s Marathon weekend races are subject to a tiered pricing system, as outlined below, so early registration is strongly encouraged. The 2023 Grandma’s Marathon is scheduled for June 15-17, and registration for the weekend’s races will open on a first-come, first-served basis at 7:00 p.m. “Our participants, volunteers, and community members all deserved a race weekend like that after all they’ve been through, and now we feel as an organization that the bar’s been raised even higher headed into 2023.”

“It was certainly quite the return to the Grandma’s Marathon weekend we’re all used to around here,” said Marketing & Public Relations Director Zach Schneider, referencing two years of alterations to race weekend due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Helped by wonderful weather for runners, the 2022 race weekend saw perhaps the event’s highest-ever number of personal records run across the weekend’s three races – Grandma’s Marathon, the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon, and the William A. (DULUTH, MINN.) - Registration will open on Saturday, October 1 for the 2023 Grandma’s Marathon weekend, which hosted more than 20,000 runners this past summer in reaching the organization’s first total sellout since 2016.

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