Chicago, Marine Corps and New York City 2006
Three (3) of the country's largest marathons, which will take place on back-to-back-to-back weekends this fall, will field somewhere close to 100,000 runners combined.
Registration is already underway for the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, which will take place on Sunday, October 22nd. An early peak at the Active.com confirmation database on Friday revealed that, as of February 16th at 11:45 a.m. Central time, there were 8,793 runners registered toward the 40,000 runner cap. (Last fall, Chicago had 32,868 finishers.)
The 31st running of the Marine Corps Marathon will take place one week later, Sunday, October 29th, and first-come, first-serve online registration will begin on Wednesday, May 17th. In 2005, registration completely filled in 62 hours, 19 minutes -- only four hours longer than it took the last person to finish the Badwater 135 last summer. (The Marine Corps Marathon had 19,211 official finishers last year.)
In its February 14th e-mail, the New York Road Runners Club announced that registration for the Sunday, November 5th ING New York City Marathon 2006 will open at noon EST on Wednesday, March 1st. Lottery applications will be accepted until May 1st for international residents or June 1st for U.S. residents. Specific application policies can be found at this link. (New York City had 36,847 finishers last November.)
In its "2005 USA Marathon Report", the website, marathonguide.com, ranked the three marathons - based on the total numbers of finishers - first (New York City), second (Chicago) and fifth (Marine Corps). The Marine Corps Marathon, when it opened its field to 30,000 runners to commemmorate the 30th running of the event, surpassed Boston pushing the most elite race to 6th.
Registration is already underway for the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, which will take place on Sunday, October 22nd. An early peak at the Active.com confirmation database on Friday revealed that, as of February 16th at 11:45 a.m. Central time, there were 8,793 runners registered toward the 40,000 runner cap. (Last fall, Chicago had 32,868 finishers.)
The 31st running of the Marine Corps Marathon will take place one week later, Sunday, October 29th, and first-come, first-serve online registration will begin on Wednesday, May 17th. In 2005, registration completely filled in 62 hours, 19 minutes -- only four hours longer than it took the last person to finish the Badwater 135 last summer. (The Marine Corps Marathon had 19,211 official finishers last year.)
In its February 14th e-mail, the New York Road Runners Club announced that registration for the Sunday, November 5th ING New York City Marathon 2006 will open at noon EST on Wednesday, March 1st. Lottery applications will be accepted until May 1st for international residents or June 1st for U.S. residents. Specific application policies can be found at this link. (New York City had 36,847 finishers last November.)
In its "2005 USA Marathon Report", the website, marathonguide.com, ranked the three marathons - based on the total numbers of finishers - first (New York City), second (Chicago) and fifth (Marine Corps). The Marine Corps Marathon, when it opened its field to 30,000 runners to commemmorate the 30th running of the event, surpassed Boston pushing the most elite race to 6th.
posted by WalkSports.com | 5:16 PM
4 Comments:
I'm applying for New York and running Chicago
Me, too. I will defer NY if I get in.
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i wonder if anyone will run all three on back-to-back-to-back weekends?! Jon?! :)
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