We officially move into the final quarter of 2023 with this weekend’s What’s Up In Ultra, which straddles September and October on our North American UltraRunning Calendar.
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Today’s Ultra Weekend Recap has highlights from a Western States Golden Ticket race in Virginia, a mountainous 50k in California and a flat and fast 75k in Arizona which served as a tune-up for next month’s Javelina Jundred.
This week’s What’s Up In Ultra highlights events on our UltraRunning Calendar including a Western States Golden Ticket race at the Grindstone 100k in Virginia, a classic 50-miler in the Green Mountain State of Vermont and a point-to-point 50k in the Cascades of Oregon.
For our September 17 Ultra Weekend Recap we’re highlighting a 100-miler in Colorado, a mountainous 50k in Montana and the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic (NACAC) 50k championships in Canada.
Fall is in the air at many events on our UltraRunning Calendar. Leading the list are the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic (NACAC) 50k championships, a 100-miler in Colorado with a big prize purse, another 100-miler in Georgia and a laundry list of others.
For our Ultra Weekend Recap on Sunday, September 10, we’re highlighting results from three different 100-mile races in various places around the country. From Oregon to Utah to Minnesota, let’s dive right in.
An accomplished alpine skier, mountaineer, adventurer and all-around athlete for his entire life, France’s Nico Mermoud is intimately familiar with being at the forefront of innovation.
We still have two official weekends of summer left on our UltraRunning Calendar and plenty of events to cover. For September 9-10, we’re highlighting two challenging point-to-point 100-milers, Canada’s largest ultrarunning festival and a collection of other fun events in unique places.
Three events highlight our Ultra Weekend Recap for the weekend of September. We have Americans dominating the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) podium, results from the point-to-point Grand Traverse 40-miler in Colorado, the Ring 71-miler in Virginia and a handful more.
Traveling to Québec is like flying to Europe in less than half the amount of time. A quick, 30-minute jaunt takes you to Mont-Sainte-Anne in the town of Beaupré, which is home to the Québec Mega Trail running festival, the largest trail running festival in Canada.
The extended Labor Day weekend often signals the proverbial end of summer, but that doesn’t mean our North American UltraRunning Calendar slows down one bit. We have an age-handicapped ultra in Tennessee, a technical mountain race covering a unique distance in Virginia, a trifecta of gravel races in Iowa and much more.
For our Ultra Weekend Recap this week, we have new course records from a point-to-point 100-miler in Oregon, a 40-mile mountain race in Colorado, a 50k in New York and more.
As we come down off the high of executing our first race at the Tamalpa Headlands 50k, we look ahead towards closing out summer on a strong note. Our North American calendar has a bunch of fun stuff on tap for the last weekend in August including two days of racing in the Ozarks, a technical mountain ultra in Colorado, a 50k at Burning Man in Nevada and a slew more to choose from.
Welcome back to our Ultra Weekend Recap. Today we have results from UltraRunning Magazine’s own 50k held in Marin County, California, the Leadville 100, and the Squamish 50-miler in beautiful British Columbia.
It’s an exciting weekend for all of us as the 21st Tamalpa Headlands 50k presented by UltraRunning Magazine headlines the North American calendar on Saturday, August 19. Other big races include the Leadville 100 in Colorado, the Marquette Trail 50/50 in Michigan and more.
Our Ultra Weekend Recap for August 12-13 has results from the Eastern States 100 in Pennsylvania, the Habanero Hundred in Texas, the Capes 100 in Nova Scotia and we were only able to find out about the winners of the Fat Dog 120 in British Columbia due to limited service at the finish line.
We’ve covered what the women UROYs of 2022 have been up to in 2023. Now it’s time to find out what the top 10 UROY men have done this year.
We’ve made it over the hump of the 2023 ultra racing season and have seen some incredible performances, but there are still plenty of opportunities left in the second half of the year. From the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) races in August and September to the Javelina Jundred Golden Ticket race in October, the historic JFK 50 and the 40th Quad Dipsea in November, and Desert Solstice 24-Hour and 100-Mile Track Invitational in December, there are quite a few competitive contests left for the top runners to round out their resumes. Read more about how the top 10 women have fared thus far as well as what is currently left on their calendars for 2023.
Highlights on the North American UltraRunning Calendar this weekend include a 120-mile race in British Columbia, the notorious Eastern States 100 in Pennsylvania, a point-to-point 200-miler in Washington and a whole lot more.
For the first weekend in August, our Ultra Weekend Recap includes results from the inaugural Kauai 50 in Hawaii, a new women’s course record at the Waldo 100k in Oregon and the Canadian Death Race.
August starts off with a bang on our North American UltraRunning Calendar with the USATF 50k National Championships in New Hampshire, an inaugural 50-mile race on Kauai with a massive prize purse, a single loop 100k in Oregon and more than we could possibly list below.
Welcome to the final Ultra Weekend Recap of July, where we have results from the White River 50 in Washington, the Burning River 100 in Ohio and the Minnesota Voyageur 50, to name a few.
For the last weekend of July on our UltraRunning Calendar we’ve got two classic 50-milers—one in the Pacific Northwest and one in Minnesota, a technical 100k in southern Utah at high altitude and a whole lot more.
It’s Sunday and that means we’re back with our Ultra Weekend Recap. Highlights this week include Daybreak Racing’s Wy’east Trailfest 50k in Oregon, a new course record at the High Lonesome 100 in Colorado, the 25th Cascade Crest 100 in Washington and a whole lot more.
If you thought you could take a breather after last week’s excitement on our UltraRunning Calendar, think again. This week we have a couple of epic mountain 100-milers, two vertical-heavy 50k races, lots of prize money up for grabs and a whole lot more.
It was a weekend for course records to be broken across the country at the Hardrock 100 and the Tahoe Rim Trail 100, plus results from the Teton Mountain Runs 50k in Wyoming and more in the July 16 Ultra Weekend Recap.
It’s a big week for a couple of notoriously challenging and historic ultras on our UltraRunning Calendar from Colorado to Tennessee.
Our July 9 Ultra Weekend Recap highlights a big 50-miler in Colorado, a 50k in Maryland, the new Badwater 135 women’s course record and more.
Summer hits its stride during the first full week of July on the UltraRunning Calendar. We’ve got a robust lineup of races to choose from, including events in Ashland, Oregon, Leadville, Colorado, Brecksville, Ohio and as always, much more.
This week’s Ultra Weekend Recap covers races from a 50k in California, ultras in Canada, a big 50k in Minnesota and more.
“I’m feeling good – better every day,” Courtney Dauwalter said just two weeks after her 500-mile Colorado Trail (CT) fastest known time (FKT) attempt. “I’ll be back to 100% soon, I hope,” she continued, clearly optimisti...
Leading up to the Mount Shasta 50K, my first socially-distanced race, I was flooded with emotion. I just flat out missed racing and all the aspects of an ultra – the training, the challenge, the deep valleys I have to ba...
Approaching the halfway point of last year’s Ultra-Trail Mount Fuji (UTMF) the temperatures dropped into the high 30s and it started raining – hard. As the weather worsened and the winds picked up it, became bitterly col...
On a blustery Tuesday morning in the middle of February, two professional ultrarunners set out with a plan to run a 50k in northern Arizona. They weren’t tackling the Cowboy Loop in the Grand Canyon or the infamous A1 Lo...