2021 - Sleeping Bear Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K
2021 distances
Running
Full Marathon
Half Marathon
5K
Virtual Full Marathon
Wanna run on a Tuesday at noon? No problem. Weather outlook looking better for Friday evening? Go run! Run the race course any time you want in the two weeks leading up to the event and submit your time to be entered in the official virtual results. The best part is that you still get to come join the post race fun on race day! You're invited to come cheer on other runners and celebrate your finish with everyone on race morning. If you join us on race day you can pick up your shirt and finisher medal there, otherwise we'll mail those out to you after the race. This is a great way to be a part of the race and make it fit with your schedule.
Virtual Half Marathon
Can't make it to join us on race day, but still want to be a part of the event? We've added a new virtual race option for you. Wanna run on a Tuesday at noon? No problem. Weather outlook looking better for Friday evening? Go run! Run the race course any time you want in the two weeks leading up to the event and submit your time to be entered in the official virtual results. The best part is that you still get to come join the post race fun on race day! You're invited to come cheer on other runners and celebrate your finish with everyone on race morning. If you join us on race day you can pick up your shirt and finisher medal there, otherwise we'll mail those out to you after the race. This is a great way to be a part of the race and make it fit with your schedule.
Virtual 5K
Can't make it to join us on race day, but still want to be a part of the event? We've added a new virtual race option for you. Wanna run on a Tuesday at noon? No problem. Weather outlook looking better for Friday evening? Go run! Run the race course any time you want in the two weeks leading up to the event and submit your time to be entered in the official virtual results. The best part is that you still get to come join the post race fun on race day! You're invited to come cheer on other runners and celebrate your finish with everyone on race morning. If you join us on race day you can pick up your shirt there, otherwise we'll mail it out to you after the race. This is a great way to be a part of the race and make it fit with your schedule.
Race-day weather
Conditions on October 2, 2021 — historical Open-Meteo data.
The sun rises at 7:44 AM and sets at 7:22 PM local time (EDT) in Empire on October 2, 2021 — 11h 38m of daylight.
Course
No course map published yet.
The organizer hasn't released a route for this event, and we don't publish guesses. If you're the organizer, send us a GPX file and we'll draw the profile.
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2021 results — Sleeping Bear Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K
1,351 finishers across 6 distances · leading places in the Full Marathon
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Lishawa | 2:51:09 | 6:32 /mi |
| 2 | Joseph Mlachak | 3:00:40 | 6:54 /mi |
| 3 | Quenton Buss | 3:12:51 | 7:22 /mi |
| 4 | Mudd Hemberg | 3:15:31 | 7:28 /mi |
| 5 | Dones Anewishki | 3:16:31 | 7:30 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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🏃 Plan Your Next Race in Empire
Find upcoming events by distance:
- Empire 5K Races 2 races
- Empire Running Calendar 2026 2 races
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, 3 Empire events
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