<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1HE9KW_1FL9ALc500" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1HE9KW_1FL9ALc500" width="1200" height="600" >ISHPEMING, Mich. (WLUC) - The Marji Gesick wrapped up Sunday in Ishpeming.906 Adventure Team Director of Adventure Todd Paquette says this year was a success with some of the nicest weather they’ve ever had for the event.“We had people coming from all over the country this year; we had a participant here from the U.K.,” Paquette said.He says roughly 1700 participants signed up this year: a record. What makes the Marji Gesick so popular?“I think that this is first of all not a race, I think it’s an experience and it’s a challenge and it’s a call to action for people to try to do hard things,” Paquette said.Most participants run or mountain bike 100 or 50-mile courses, though one contestant rode the event on a unicycle. There are also a Mini Marji and a duathlon, which features both a running and biking leg.Gregory Determan took on the duathlon.“I just had a 60-year-old birthday and I’m just happy that I can still do this,” Determan said.He says the duathlon starts with a 68-mile bike ride before switching to running to complete the roughly 109 miles. But a wrong turn meant Determan ran an extra five miles.“These are all efforts to kind of have a bucket list of things that I can say that I accomplished,” he said.Putting on the event is no easy task and volunteers faced their own endurance challenge.“Everybody’s been up for about 30 hours, and they need to go sleep,” Paquette said. “Next thing after getting up is we need to go clean up the course…. When the trailers pull away this morning, you won’t even know that a couple thousand people were here 12 hours ago.”Determan invites anyone that would like to challenge themselves to sign up for the Marji Gesick next year.“If you have it in your head that you can finish, you’re going to finish and you’re going to be happy that you did,” Determan said.Full results from the Marji Gesick are available from Superior Timing here.The video above will feature the TV6 livestream until staff can clip the corresponding story, if available, from broadcasts or other TV6 content. You can subscribe to our YouTube page or download TV6+ to stream the latest local news and weather.</div></body>

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ISHPEMING, Mich. (WLUC) - The Marji Gesick wrapped up Sunday in Ishpeming. 906 Adventure Team Director of Adventure Todd Paquette says this year was a success with some of the nicest weather they’ve ever had for the event. “We had people coming from all over the country this year;...

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ISHPEMING, Mich. (WLUC) - The Marji Gesick wrapped up Sunday in Ishpeming. 906 Adventure Team Director of Adventure Todd Paquette says this year was a succ

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