Summer hasn’t officially arrived in New England yet, but it felt like it during the first weekend of June for ultrarunners from the region who took on the Connecticut Ultra Traverse. In addition to that event, runners from the region traveled all across the country to race, and a few earned podium finishes, including Shae Regan at the Great Divide Ultra in Colorado and Samuel Couture at the Malibu Canyon 50K in California. We have all of that covered–and more–in this edition of the roundup.
Beast Coast Trail Running played host to the third annual Edge Hill Trail Race on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the Edge Hill Conservation Area in Ashfield, Mass. Runners took on a 50K ultramarathon or 30K and 10K sub-ultra distances on the site of a former golf course that is being transformed into a grassland and shrub habitat.
The second annual Flat Rock Trail Race 6-hour and 5-mile races took place on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the Arched Bridge Conservation Area in Dunstable, Mass. The event used a 5-mile loop course with around 600 feet of climbing per loop.
May came to a close with several big ultramarathon efforts from New Englanders close to home and across the country. Some put up big miles at the Chesterfield Gorge Ultra in Massachusetts, which we will have covered in a separate recap. Others ran for up to 10 days straight at Infinitus in Vermont. Still others ventured to the rugged and remote trails of Pennsylvania for the Worlds End Ultra, and as far west as Oregon. While results of some events (such as Cayuga Trails in New York) weren’t available at the time of publication, we have plenty covered in this edition of the roundup.
The eighth edition of Beast Coast Trail Running’s Chesterfield Gorge Ultra took place May 30-31, 2026, at the Chesterfield Gorge Reservation in West Chesterfield, Mass. Runners took on a 7.75-mile out-and-back course on jeep roads and doubletrack trail, racing for up to 30 hours for 100-mile, 100K, 50-mile, and 50K ultramarathon finishes, as well as 33K and 11K sub-ultra distances. Runners encountered rain early in the race before warmer temperatures and sunny skies arrived.
Memorial Day weekend was light on ultramarathon racing across the United States, but New Englanders found their way to several starting lines – including two in the region. The Drummer Hill Trail Races welcomed runners in New Hampshire, while the Trail Festival at Pineland Farms once again played host to a large endurance festival in Maine. We have both of those events covered, as well as a few others across the country in this edition of the roundup.
May 15-17 was a big weekend for ultramarathon running in New England with a pair of ultras in Massachusetts and a few more throughout the region. We will have the Berkshire Ultra Running Community for Service’s Tails & Trails State Forest Run and the Free Spirit 50K covered in separate recaps, but in this week’s roundup we catch up on other results from throughout the region, as well as across the country. New Englanders took part in at least 14 other ultras from coast to coast, and we have results from several of them included here.
The Berkshire Ultra Running Community for Service (BURCS) played host to the second annual Tails & Trails State Forest Run on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at Pittsfield State Forest in Pittsfield, Mass. The event offered 50K, 25K and 5-mile trail races on rolling singletrack trails. Proceeds from the event benefitted three area nonprofit animal rescue organizations.
The fourth annual Free Spirit 50K took place on Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Leyden, Mass. The course consisted of dirt country roads in Massachusetts and Vermont with around 4,200 feet of climbing.
A pair of Massachusetts races highlighted the New England ultrarunning calendar during the May 8-10 weekend with the Watuppa Trail Races in Fall River and the Trail Animals Running Club’s Wapack and Back races in Ashburnham, Mass. We’ll have those covered in separate stories, but there was plenty of additional ultrarunning action for New Englanders at events across the country. From the Hellbender 100 in North Carolina to the Cocodona 250 in Arizona, we have them covered in this edition of the roundup.
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