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We’ve made it to the New Year and our first Western States Golden Ticket contest in Texas headlines our What’s Up in Ultra on our UltraRunning Calendar. There’s also big races on Santa Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles, just outside Phoenix, North Carolina and so much more.

The weekend before Christmas on our UltraRunning Calendar might boast a little less volume than most weeks of the year, but there are still some fun races on the horizon. Don’t miss the Lookout Mountain in Georgia, Wisconsin’s Arctic Frog 50/50, the Woodside Ramble in California and more.

UltraRunning Magazine would like to congratulate Rebecca Joyner for being selected to receive UR’s sponsored entry ticket for the 2023 Western States Endurance Run Rebecca’s Entry In 2020, I got…

Results from Saturday’s 39th Quad Dipsea lead our North American Ultra Weekend Recap after a rather light holiday race calendar leading into a busy final month of 2022. 

Continuing on the heels of our summary of what last year’s women UltraRunners of the Year have been up to in 2022, below we check in with the 2021 list of men who cracked the top 10 UltraRunners of the Year.

Welcome to the Ultra Weekend Recap where fast times prevailed at Tunnel Hill despite blustery conditions, we saw the third-fastest 2022 finish in a 50-miler, Mt. Tamalpais had a swift win and more, from Wednesday’s What’s Up In Ultra. Thanks for your help in advance by helping us locate even more results from around North American and adding a comment and link below. 

With just a handful of key ultras left in 2022—Tunnel Hill 50/100m, the 60th Annual JFK 50, the 39th Annual Quad Dipsea and Desert Solstice 24-Hour and 100-Mile Track Invitational, to name a few—we wanted to check in with both the women’s and men’s top 10 from last year. Let’s start off with the women.

November’s inaugural Ultra Weekend Recap saw a new course record at Rio Del Lago, a throwdown in the final miles at the Austin Rattler and more from our Wednesday’s What’s Up In Ultra. Please add links and updates below with race results we may have missed.

Welcome to November on our North American UltraRunning Calendar. In a month when you might think ultrarunners start looking toward more traditional winter activities, this is actually a deep weekend—to the tune of 58 races. There’s a classic 100-miler in Northern California on a portion of the Western States course, a point-to-point and rugged 100-miler in Alabama, 25 spots up for grabs at the 2023 Leadville 100 in the Lone Star State, and so many more we can’t possibly cover them all here.

We had a big weekend down in the desert for our final Ultra Weekend Recap of October at the first North American 2023 Western States Golden Ticket Race, a second year event the San Jacinto 50k, the Chicago Lakefront 50/50 and more races from our What’s Up In Ultra than we can keep track of. Incredibly, all of the below events had at least one course record set. Feel free to add comments and links to other race results below.

This is the weekend on our UltraRunning Calendar that many have been waiting for: the 20th annual Javelina Jundred trail and ultrarunning extravaganza in Fountain Hills, Arizona, on Saturday, October 29. Featuring the first of four 2023 Western States Golden Ticket races in North America as well as two other race distances, this Halloween party in the Southwest is the place to be this weekend.

Results are trickling in for this Sunday’s Ultra Weekend Recap, but we did our best to track down as many events from our midweek What’s Up In Ultra. If you have links to race results we don’t have yet, please drop a comment and link below. Thanks in advance.

We’re just a week and half away from the first 2023 Western States Golden Ticket race on our North American UltraRunning Calendar, but before we get ahead of ourselves, we’ve got a fun 50/50 in the Music City, a rugged 100-miler in the Lone Star State, the 20th edition of Cincinnati’s oldest ultramarathon and so much more.

This week’s Ultra Weekend Recap follows up on Wednesday’s What’s Up In Ultra and is headlined by the 2022 World Backyard Team Championships at Big’s Backyard Ultra which is still in progress and likely to continue through next week’s What’s Up In Ultra. Will someone break the World Record? Let us know what you think below and be sure to drop links to results that we’ve missed, too. We appreciate your help in covering all the races in North America.

Last week’s UltraRunning Calendar was one for the record books and the fall momentum continues. Leading the way is the 2022 World Backyard Team Championships, a first-class 50-miler in Pennsylvania and a collection of other races scattered across the continent.

We have another incredible weekend of racing to cover in this week’s Ultra Weekend Recap coming on the heels of our What’s Up In Ultra. We know we missed a bunch of races, so help us out and drop a note in the comment with links to results from other ultramarathons this past weekend—thanks in advance.

The pace always seems to pick up during fall months on our UltraRunning Calendar, and this week is no different—we have 60 events happening across the country. In San Francisco, a 50k World Record attempt is taking place, there’s a 240-mile single-loop race in Utah, a classic 50k/50m on the Ice Age Trail and a whole lot more. 

Ultra Weekend Recap number two is here, where we aim to showcase results from a handful of ultrarunning events all over North America. Think of it as a sister column to our midweek What’s Up In Ultra piece. We surely missed something, so please let us know what race you were at this past weekend and link to the results in the comments.

The final quarter of the year is here, and it’s definitely starting to feel like fall. Per popular reader request, What’s Up In Ultra is coming to you a day earlier so some of you might have a better chance lining up last minute at one of the races highlighted on our North American UltraRunning Calendar. This weekend we have a historic 100-miler in the Land of Opportunity, a flat and fast point-to-point trifecta of ultras a couple hours west of the Windy City, a premier 50k in the Scenic City and a ton more. 

Welcome to our very first Ultra Weekend Recap where we dish out results from ultrarunning events around North America. As with our What’s Up In Ultra column, please help us out and feel free to chime in with anything we missed in the comments section below. We’ll do our best to get as many events as we can each week, but know that we can’t find them all on our own. Thanks in advance for your help.

This week’s What’s Up In Ultra is our 50th consecutive column that highlights events on our  UltraRunning Calendar each week. We’re always looking to improve and would love to hear any feedback you have about the weekly column, so drop a comment below. Standouts on our calendar for the first official week of fall include a mountain 100-miler in the Wasatch Mountains, a point-to-point 50k in the Cascade mountains and a classic 50-miler in the Green Mountain State.

It’s finally starting to feel like fall in many places around the country and on our UltraRunning Calendar, with a welcome relief from late summer heat and some much-needed precipitation to help big wildfires out West. Leading our calendar is a Colorado ultra with the biggest ultrarunning prize purse in the world, a qualifying race for next year’s Barkley Marathons and the state of Georgia’s longest-standing 100-miler.

We’re closing in on the official end of summer on our UltraRunning Calendar but still have some heavy hitters to wet your ultrarunning appetite. Whether you prefer a high-altitude 100-miler in Colorado, a historic Southern California 50k, a Canadian technical 50-miler or a fun, low-key race, we’ve got you covered.

Memorial Day arrives on our UltraRunning Calendar as the unofficial first weekend of summer, even though the big kick-off is still three weeks away. Whether you’re celebrating your kids’ break from school with an ultra camping weekend or keeping it close to home, we’ve got you covered with the top events around North America during this three-day weekend. 

Aleksandr Sorokin is destroying ultra records. Already the first human to go sub-11 hours for 100 miles and the holder of the 12-hour and 24-hour world records, the 40-year-old Lithuanian now also possesses the 100k world record. Sorokin ran 6:05:40 for the 100k, besting the previous record of 6:09:14 set by Japan’s Nao Kazami in June 2018. For those of you playing at home, that’s a 5:53-per-mile average.

We’ve hit a bit of a mini-milestone this first week of May with the 30th consecutive “What’s Up in Ultra.” It coincides nicely with our UltraRunning Calendar which includes 42 different races across the US this weekend.

Just when you expected a lull in the UltraRunning Calendar after a drama-filled weekend, the ultra race lineup continues to deliver from coast to coast. Although not officially beginning until next Monday, May 2, the second annual Cocodona 250 beginning in Black Canyon City, Arizona, and finishing in Flagstaff is worth noting as it will be nearly wrapped up by the publishing of next week’s What’s Up In Ultra. The 255-mile point-to-point course across the heart of Arizona links together some of the most iconic trails and towns in the Grand Canyon State.

With the Western States Endurance Run just over eight weeks out, we have our final Golden Ticket race and six spots on the line at the 2022 Canyons Endurance Runs 100k this Saturday, April 23, starting at 5 a.m. in Auburn, California. There is also an accompanying 50k race this year.

In the early morning hours on Sunday, Dec. 19, police arrived in force at the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary in Titusville, Florida, joining runners who had been scouring the woods since 11 p.m. at the Ancient Oaks 100-Mile Endurance Run, looking for 57-year-old Earl Blewett of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who disappeared on a 3.64-mile loop course. Blewett was last seen wearing a neon green and yellow tank top, black shorts, black waist pack, small light and possibly glasses. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Blewett is asked to contact the Titusville Police Department at (321) 264-7800.

UltraRunning Magazine (UR) has added Drymax Sports as the presenting sponsor of their 2021 UltraRunner of the Year (UROY) award. Male and female UltraRunners of the Year, as well as the top 10 frontrunners, will be announced on ultrarunning.com starting on January 10, 2022. More detailed and comprehensive coverage of UROY awards and year-end stats will be featured in the February issue of the magazine.