The Sanders Saunter Charity Trail Race is a sneaky, challenging event, run on the Clinton Lake North Shore Trail System in northeast Kansas. This state park is the anchor for the Lawrence Trail Hawks events and runs, and the technical, rooty, rocky trails wind up and over the lakeside trail.
The Saturday before Thanksgiving, over 1,000 runners lined up in Boonsboro, Maryland, for the 63rd JFK 50 Mile. Originally a presidential military fitness challenge, JFK is now the most competitive 50-miler on American soil and an annual East Coast staple.
The Fat Pursuit is well known in the fat biking community, but it has only been open to skiers and runners for the past four years.
The race was started in 2022 in memory of its namesake, Oliver Ortiz. Ollie’s Ultra went from 22 runners to 59 in three years’ time.
Ultrarunners love to dream big. We picture breakthrough performances, bucket-list races and long, flowing miles on challenging trails. But when the season actually begins, many athletes drift from race to race without a clear sense of purpose.
The Daytona 100 is run along the ocean, on road SR A1A, point-to-point for 100 miles, from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to the historic lighthouse at Ponce Inlet, Florida.