The virtual Boilermaker event started Tuesday.
This year, participants can run the race from Sept.
1 - 13, and submit their results to officials online.
An run the boilermaker...as the 'virtual' boilermaker is officially underway!
Participants can run the course anytime between now and september 13th.
Registratuon is closed.
If youa re registered...you'll need to report your time back to boilermaker officials no later than noon on the 13th through your run-sign-up account.
From now until the 13th...you can also pick up your packets...as some did so this morning at teh boilermaker office on court street.
Boilermaker merchandise is also 50 percent off.
The 15-k or 5-k can be run on a treadmill, a track or anywhere you can run...and keep a safe social distance.
Tc : 17:28 "we've actually got runners from 47 states and nine countries participating in the virtual boilermaker of those numbers there's over 26 wheelchair athletes doing it as well."
The 15-k is usually capped at around 14- thousand runners; the 5-k, at 45- hundred.
So far...fifty- three-hundred signed up to run the races virtually.so...about a quarter of the normal number have signed up.
Between 200 and 300 runners donated their application fees to the race, and don't plan to run.
Tonight at five, you'll hear from some runners who already ran the
Boilermaker officials say results are coming in after participants completed the race virtually this year.
For athletes across 9 countries, Tuesday marked the first day of the virtual Boilermaker. Geoff Hale and his friend Michael Brych..