2026 Marathon Finish Safe

The goal

Finish a full marathon in 2026 while prioritizing sensible training, fueling, and race day safety.

Dates

Races held from January 1 to December 31, 2026; submissions close on January 15, 2027.

How to take part

Use Upload Record on this page to upload a race record with its finish track, or use Choose Record to submit a race already in your profile. The race is saved once in your profile, checked automatically, and linked to this challenge when it qualifies.

Rules

The recorded distance must be 40–44 km with a valid finish time. Races from earlier years can also be submitted and saved, but only qualifying races held in 2026 are shown publicly on the challenge wall and receive a draw entry. Plan training and racing around your own health needs.

Prizes and draw rules

1. The prize pool contains five boxes of SiS GO Isotonic Energy Gel Variety 7 Pack, for up to five winners who each receive one box.
2. Passing the automatic check does not guarantee prize eligibility. Before the draw, administrators will review candidate records against the race date, finish track, and finisher certificate. The review result is the final basis for eligibility; we recommend uploading the certificate with your submission.
3. If five or fewer runners pass review, no draw is held and each of them receives one box; otherwise a draw is held. Each runner has one draw entry no matter how many records they submit, and can win at most one prize.
4. This challenge is drawn separately from other challenges. Winning in another challenge does not affect your entry here.
5. Fabricated, borrowed, altered, duplicated, or otherwise unverifiable records will be disqualified. A winning record that fails review is disqualified and another winner is drawn.
6. Winners will be announced on January 31, 2027, and each winner will be contacted individually to confirm the result and delivery using the contact details in their profile, preferring the registered email. WeChat IDs and phone numbers are only used if the runner chose to provide them. A prize is forfeited if no delivery information is provided within two weeks, and a replacement winner is drawn from the remaining valid participants.
7. Prizes are normally delivered by mail. If mail delivery is not possible, we will contact the winner.

Record display and data use

Qualifying records of races held during the challenge period are shown in the FINISHERS section, ranked by finish time, with summary information such as the runner’s nickname, avatar, race name, date, distance, finish time, and pace. Original track files, certificates, and medal photos are not shown on the challenge wall and are used only for eligibility review.

By participating, runners agree that summaries of records they manually submit and that qualify may be displayed to the community and used in aggregated or anonymized form as a reference for community race and running data.