Do You Want to Run a Marathon?

Jeff Weiss – Marathon Build Up (MBU) Program Director

The Badgerland Striders have a program that helps you train for a marathon. The Marathon Build Up program brings a large group together every Saturday all summer and helps you to run your long run with support. The program is 14 weeks long from the end of June through the end of September. This is perfect timing for Our Marathon, the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon. There is no requirement that you must run our marathon and with a slight modification the program can easily be tailored to another fall marathon.

As I said, the program meets every Saturday except for two weekends where the program is interrupted by our Cudahy Classic event on July 26th and the Strider Estabrook Half Marathon on August 23rd. Program participants are encouraged to run the 10 Mile distance at Cudahy and the Half Marathon distance at the second event. These distances fit handily into the mileage chart for your training.

The program provides Aid Stations approximately every 3 miles manned by beautiful volunteers providing Gatorade and Water and GUs for longer runs.  The Start and Finish varies each week in various Milwaukee County Parks thus providing you with some varied scenery along your routes.

 The finish has refreshments including Gatorade, Water, Fruit, Snacks and Watermelon. Other refreshments and foods are supplied sometimes on special occasions.

And!  The program is free!  It will start this year on Saturday June 28th 2025 in Lake Park.

Over the next few weeks, I will tell you more about the program and how you or your family may be able to help this program survive and thrive for years to come.

https://milwaukeelakefrontmarathon.org/

We need plenty of volunteers for setting up and staffing aid stations, consider signing up to help!

Marathon Build Up Volunteer Signup

Build Up Run schedules are also on the Badgerland Strider Facebook Page.

Program Coordinator Information

Jeff Weiss

Email: runnerjeff@outlook.com