The State of US Marathons 2025
In 2019, we presented the original The State of Running 2019, which was presented together with the World Athletics in China. This is our first follow-up in 6 years. For this 2025 report, we’ve narrowed our focus to look exclusively at races in the US, and exclusively at the marathon distance. Key conclusions Marathon participation peaked in 2014 with 496,178 participants. Over the following 4 years, participation slowly declined to 411,792, a yearly decline of 4.4[…]