MEGA
MARATHON
Run every morning. Five days in a row. Before work. The week adds up to a marathon.
Next race week: Monday 9 to Friday 13 November.
No rules.
Just doing.
This is not an event. Nobody closes a road for you. Nobody hands you a bottle. There is no start gun. Only your alarm.
Five mornings. You decide how far each one goes. Then you shower, and you go to work like nothing happened.
You race everyone who signed up, and you never see them. Same week, different streets. The mornings are the only thing you share. The week adds up: 21.1 km is the half badge, 42.2 km the marathon, 50 km the ultra.
Just you against yourself. That is the whole idea.
The cookie jar.
David Goggins keeps a jar. In it: every hard thing he ever finished. When a race gets ugly, he reaches in and takes one out.
MegaMarathon is five cookies. Monday goes in the jar on Monday. By Thursday, when your legs vote no, you open the jar. Three cookies say otherwise.
Nobody is watching. Everybody is counting.
Put your name down.
Name, city and email. No password. It is free, it is public, and it stays.
Run before work. Five times.
Monday to Friday of race week. You decide the length every morning. Any route, any pace. Let the iPhone app pull it from Apple Health, or add the file from your watch. You have until Sunday night. Optional: post your start photo. Dark, tired, honest.
Five out of five. Or nothing.
Run all five mornings and your name goes on the wall, ranked by distance. Pass 21.1 km over the week for the half badge, 42.2 km for the marathon badge, 50 km for the ultra badge. Miss a morning and nothing counts. There is no partial.
Finishers, Edition 01.
- Started
- 0
- Finished
- 0
We didn't invent hard. We just moved it to 05:30.
The prize is a t-shirt.
A fjord, a mountain, and a black shirt for the ones who reach the top. Nothing else. We took the idea that the reward should be nothing you could buy.
Suffering is the test.
The cookie jar, the 4 a.m. alarm, the refusal to negotiate with yourself. We took the jar, and the hour.
Carry less.
Autonomy and simplicity. Movement as a mother tongue. We took the minimalism: no kit list, no expo, no medal.
One sheet of paper.
The first brochure was a single page, and it had a paragraph on values. We took the sheet. This page is ours.
Put your name down.
Free. Public. Permanent. Race week starts the second Monday of every month. Enough time to set the alarm, not enough to talk yourself out of it.
Never miss a race week. Every edition in your calendar, with an alarm the evening before and at 06:00 each race morning.