“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. Bruce was running in Duluth for the third time in four years after finishing 11th in Grandma’s Marathon last year and fifth in the Bjorklund in 2019 in 1:13:41.(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.

Saturday was her third half marathon win in three years after winning in Indianapolis in 2020.īruce led the women’s half marathon late before being surpassed by Edwards and Hayday. She finished 18 seconds short of her PR set when she won the 2021 Las Vegas Half Marathon. Like Kemoi, Edwards was making her Duluth debut. He previously finished sixth in the Bjorklund in 2016 with a time of 1:05:33. The Bjorklund was Dandena’s third podium finish in 2022 after winning in Naples, Florida, and finishing third in Mesa, Arizona.

He was able to beat his personal best, set in 2018, by 24 seconds on Saturday. First female finisher for the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon! /MbpwQ16o83- Dan Williamson June 18, 2022įor Kemoi, the Bjorklund was his third half marathon victory in 2022 after also winning in Austin and Forth Worth, Texas.

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