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Bismarck Marathon
North Dakota's longest-running marathon. 🏃🏼♂️
Sept. 19th
A RECORD-BREAKING BISMARCK MARATHON! 🙌🏼
The 2026 Bismarck Marathon presented by MDU Resources Group, officially set a NEW ALL-TIME PARTICIPATION RECORD with 2,411 total participants across Marathon weekend events!
🏁 1,964 registered runners
🏅 1,730 finishers
💪 88% completion rate
🎉 2,411 total participants including the Kids Mini Marathon, Pub Crawl & BisBark
And you showed up in a BIG way…
🔥 Full Marathon — SOLD OUT
🔥 Marathon Relay — SOLD OUT
🔥 10K — SOLD OUT
🔥 5K — SOLD OUT
🔥 Kids Mini Marathon — SOLD OUT
To every runner, volunteer, sponsor, spectator, vendor and community member who helped make this year’s Bismarck Marathon the biggest yet, THANK YOU.
From the starting line to the final finisher, this was a weekend we won’t forget. Thanks for making history with us. 💙
📸 Looking for your race-day photos? Check them out here: mccolganphoto.photohawk.com/pages/bismarck-marathon
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🏃♂️ AND THEY’RE OFF!
The 45th Bismarck Marathon presented by MDU Resources Group, Inc. is officially underway!
Good luck to every runner hitting the streets of Bismarck today! 🏁
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🏃♂️ MORE THAN MILES: LYNN’S VISION FOR THE MARATHON RELAY
For Lynn Beiswanger, the Bismarck Marathon Relay is about more than running 26.2 miles, it’s about bringing people together.
This year, Lynn had a vision to grow the Marathon Relay by encouraging members of local faith communities to form teams and take on the challenge together.
His idea was simple: training for a marathon relay creates community. Teammates support one another, work toward a common goal and learn to push through difficult moments, lessons that extend far beyond race day.
Thanks in large part to Lynn’s efforts, a number of this year’s relay teams represent local places of worship, bringing people together through fitness, faith and a shared challenge.
When you see those teams out on the course Saturday, know there’s a pretty special story behind how many of them got there. 🙌🏼
Thank you, Lynn, for your efforts to grow the Bismarck Marathon Relay and use running as a way to bring our community closer together. ❤️🏁
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