How to Enter the Race or Lottery

2024 registration for priority entrants and lottery hopefuls will be March 1-31.
Registration buttons will be posted on the Home Page. 

Basically, here’s how registration works: you either have Priority Registration status — or you do not.

If you have priority registration, simply register between March 1-31, pay your entry fee ($85 for adults, $35 for juniors), and you’re all set.
How do I know if I have priority status? Read this link HERE!

  • If you DO NOT have priority, you may enter the registration lottery between March 1-31, 2024 for a fee of $20 for adults or $15 for juniors.
  • If you win the lottery, you will be invoiced the remaining balance ($65 for adults, $20 for juniors) and once paid, you’re all set.
  • If you lose the lottery, you can try again in 2025.
  • For more about the lottery process, read this link HERE!
  • There are also several last-resort possibilities for getting a bib: see links below for the auction/raffle, petition and earning a race spot.

Adult Race Selection

The adult races are for ages 18 and up. The 375 women entrants and 375 men entrants are filled in the following order:

  • Applicants with Priority Registration status who register and pay between March 1-31, 2024.
  • Lottery winners using a random weighted lottery selection process.
  • One-time Earned Race Spot (winners of AMR Grand Prix races and Top 10 at Mount Marathon the previous year)
  • Approved One-Time Petition Race Spots (based on merit or unique circumstances)
  • Auction winners (10 men and 10 women) and raffle (1 total)
  • Sponsor spots (1 entry for each $5,000 CASH sponsorship)
    NOTE: Earned Race, Petition, Auction, Raffle and Sponsor entries are IN ADDITION to the original 375 entries and DO NOT count against that capacity.

Junior Race Selection

Junior racers must be at least 9 years old on race day to participate. The 150 boys entrants and 150 girls entrants are filled in the following order:

  • Applicants with Priority Registration status who register and pay between March 1-31, 2024.
  • Lottery winners using a random weighted lottery selection process. (All junior lottery entrants from Seward and Moose Pass are automatic lottery winners by rule of the MMRC).
  • Approved One-Time Petition Race Spots.
  • Sponsor spots (1 entry for each $5,000 CASH sponsorship)

NOTE: There is NO WAIT LIST for those who hope to gain entry after the roster is published.
There are NO TRANSFERS of bibs to another runners from someone on the roster who cannot attend.
There are NO REFUNDS and NO DEFERRALS for those on the roster unable to attend.

The deferral request is no longer an option beginning in 2024. Skip-a-Year is the new deferral process.