Blue Heron Hundreds

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.

NEW! We are adding a Half Marathon and pushing the date a little later so the weather will be cooler!

Fleet Feet Fall Fitness Festival is back again!

The family-friendly festival will include a scenic 5K run along the beautiful trails of Hays Farm (a timed run, but not certified).

Packet pick-up

Packet pick-up is at Swift Recovery (next door to Fleet Feet in Jones Valley) on Friday from 10-3.

*Swift will provide a gift for everyone that picks up their packet on Friday.

There will also be race morning packet pick up from 6:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Race participants ONLY will be entered into event door prizes from 40+ vendors - which include one month passes to local gyms, grocery gift cards, exclusive recovery and wellness deals, plus so much more!

We will have...

• Half Marathon - Certified

• A 5K Run

• A community 1 mile fun run for casual walkers and kids

• A community bike ride (just a few miles)

• Pop-up fitness classes from some of your favorite local fitness studios!

• Local Food Trucks

• Health and Wellness Vendors

• Door Prizes

• More!

To our fishers out there, pack your rods! You can come fishing at F5 this year.

So, what are you waiting for?! Register to run, ride, walk, or fish(?!), send to a friend, and come have fun with us on September 6th!

Event Information

Date: September 26, 2026

Time: 8AM-12PM

Location: Hays Farm Park Run - 1117 Haysland Rd SW, Huntsville, AL 35803

Parking: Grissom Parking Lot by hays Farm Clubhouse

Run: The runs will start in the middle of the greenway giving you more scenery and shade! Just follow the signs and the people. Details will be provided at a later date.

Bike: Our Bike ride this year will be just a few miles, following the Elgie's Walk Greenway.

Other Activities: Stick around for all day pop-up classes, giveaways, and more.

2025 list of those community vendors participating!

• Altra Running

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Alabama Chapter

• Blitz45Fitness

• Burn Boot Camp

• Club Pilates Jones Valley

• Fleet Fitness LLC

• Functional Chiropractic

• Grifols Plasma Center

• Hot Yoga of Huntsville

• Huntsville Nutrition Collective

• Huntsville Track Club

• Iceworks Shaved ice

• Hoka

• Manifest Athlete

• Mary Kay

• Max Health

• Megan's Apothecary

• On Running

• Orangetheory Fitness Huntsville

• P3 Chiropractic & SportsCare

• ProFormance Physical Therapy and Wellness

• REGYMEN Fitness

• Return 2 Sport

• Rumble Boxing

• Sam’s Club

• Saucony

• Southeast Family YMCA

• Spring City Cycling Club

• Squeeze Massage

• Swift Recovery

• Stretch Lab Madison

• Team Rocket Tri-Club

• Team RWB

• The Covery Wellness

• The Exercise Coach

• The Sports Multiverse