Boston or Bust Marathon
About this race
The Boston or Bust Marathon & Half Marathon
USATF Certification information for our 2024 Boston Qualifiers!
USATF Certification
Certification code: AL22025JE
It's (almost) time to book your tickets to run Boston! The Boston or Bust Marathon will be an extremely flat and fast course along Aldridge Creek and Tennessee River in South Huntsville. The course will start and finish at Ditto Landing Marina and is entirely on the Alridge Creek Greenway.
We will have Chip Timing and both half and full marathon courses will be certified.
..And then there's the post race party. We will have post race food for all finishers, 2 drink tickets, post race music, all at the Ditto Landing Marina Pavilion. We believe in training hard, racing hard and celebrating hard and this race will be no different!
Historically the last window to qualify for the following April Boston race is the second weekend in September. This is one of the very few last minute qualifiers in the South. Average Temperatures at this time of year are 64F/ 87F which is why we will start at 6:00AM.
The guaranteed t-shirt deadline has passed however we will have extras along with RunningLane shirts for those last minute signups so you don't go home empty handed.
All aid stations will have water, gatorade and GU energy gels.
Pick your distance
Running
Marathon
There is a strict 6:00 hour cutoff for the marathon. If you can't maintain 13:45 min/miles please sign up for the half marathon.
Half Marathon
There is a 5:00 hour cutoff for the half marathon. This works out to be 22:50 min/ miles.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 8 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Huntsville, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:27 AM and sets at 6:58 PM local time (CDT) in Huntsville on September 12, 2027 — 12h 30m of daylight.
Course
No course map published yet.
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 84 Huntsville events
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