Rail Rampage - 200K | 100K

Join us for Kansas’ ONLY ultra-relay event – Rail Rampage! This 200K relay will take you down the beautiful Flint Hills trail. For over a century, trains traveled what is now the Flint Hills Trail. The last train ran the line in the early 1990s. Rails and ties were soon removed. Trees and brush quickly reclaimed the pathway. The Flint Hills represent one of the last remaining tallgrass prairie ecosystems in the world. The eastern portion of the route travels alongside the Marais Des Cygnes River, between rushing waters and towering bluffs, through rolling farmland and riparian woodlands. 

RAIL RAMPAGE is an ultra-relay running experience consisting of the following events: 200K relay for teams of four or eight runners, 200K individual race, 100K relay for teams of two or four, and 100K individual race.
It’s an adventure! It lasts 40 hours continuously, day and night, for the 200K and 24 hours for the 100K.

The course will be an out and back (15.5 miles) consisting of single-track trail, old railroad beds and towpath trail. It is home to abundant prairie plant and wildlife species, spectacular views, and national historic sites. It is flat, crushed gravel course. Don't worry, you won’t get lost. The course is mostly straight, staffed well, and well-marked.