The Berkshire Ultra Running Community for Service (BURCS) played host to the ninth edition of the Notchview Ultra on July 12-15, 2024, at Notchview Reservation in Windsor, Mass. Runners took on a distance-specific 100.7-mile race or time-based 72-hour, 48-hour, 24-hour, 12-hour and 6-hour ultras on a 1.9-mile cross-country ski loop course. The following is a small sample of photos taken by MassUltra Editor Chris Wristen. A larger gallery can be viewed on the MassUltra Facebook page.
Beast Mode was activated by hundreds of runners at the ninth edition of the Notchview Ultra. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraRyan Carroll of Plymouth, Mass., pushes across the finish line and prepares to start another lap of the 6-hour race at the 2024 Notchview Ultra. Carroll finished second with 36.1 miles. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraEugene Bruckert enjoys a slice of watermelon before heading back out for another loop at the Notchview Ultra. Bruckert, 89, completed 79.8 miles in the 72-hour race. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraA runner heads back out for another trip through the 1.9-mile loop course during the Notchview Ultra. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraAn ecstatic Amanda Cabrera hugs her husband, Alex Cabrera, after finishing her first ultra with a 51.3-mile performance at the Notchview Ultra. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraRace Director Benn Griffin, left, and volunteers Mark Bancroft and Rebecca Gonzalez-Kreisberg relax in the shade while cheering on runners during the Notchview Ultra. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraChris Cullen of Salisbury, Md., center, catches a photo with Notchview Ultra Race Director Benn Griffin, right, and volunteer Mark Bancroft, left, following the completion of his first 100-miler. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraErin DeBerardinis, left, and Taylor Verville, right, close out another loop of their 72-hour race at the 2024 Notchview Ultra. DeBerardinis finished third in the women’s field with 155.8 miles, and Verville was 11th with 138.7 miles. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraRunners head up the hill at the start of the 1.9-mile loop on the Notchview Ultra course. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraNicole Zarba begins another loop of the Notchview Ultra course in the 6-hour race. Zarba, of South Hadley, Mass., finished fifth in the women’s field with 28.5 miles. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraChristine Da Silva, left, Daniel Wheeler, center, and Antionette Nelsen, right, close out another loop at the 2024 Notchview Ultra. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltraEd Ettinghausen of Murrieta, Calif., closes out a loop of his 48-hour race at the Notchview Ultra. It was Ettinghausen’s second race of the weekend. He started by completing the 100.7-miler before beginning the 48-hour race. Photo by Chris Wristen/MassUltra
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Thank you Chris for the inclusion!
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