The Nov. 1-3 weekend was another busy one for New England ultrarunners, well beyond the massive TARC Stone Cat Trail Festival here in Massachusetts. In Part I of this week’s roundup we caught up on the results of New Englanders who raced outside of the Northeast. Here in Part II, we catch up on events from the region, beginning in Vermont at the largest RutFest ever, and then head to New Hampshire for the Hamsterwheel, before dropping into Connecticut for 8 Hours at the Farm. We then finish up in New York at the Fall Back into the Trails Series.
Continue reading MassUltra Roundup: RutFest, Hamsterwheel, 8 Hours at the Farm, and Fall Back Into the TrailsMonthly Archives: November 2024
MassUltra Roundup: Pinhoti, Rio Del Lago, Mountain Masochist, and Antelope Island
November opened with a flurry of ultramarathon activity, highlighted by the massive Stone Cat Trail Festival in Massachusetts, along with three more New England ultra: RutFest in Vermont, the Hamsterwheel in New Hampshire, and 8 Hours at the Farm in Connecticut. Stone Cat will be featured in a separate recap, and the other New England races will have their own separate roundup, but here in this edition we catch up on ultras outside of the Northeast. New Englanders collected hard-earned finishes at the Pinhoti 100 in Alabama, the Rio Del Lago 100 in California, the Mountain Masochist 50-miler in Virginia and the Antelope Island 50K in Utah. We have them all covered in this edition of the roundup.
Continue reading MassUltra Roundup: Pinhoti, Rio Del Lago, Mountain Masochist, and Antelope IslandResults: TARC Stone Cat Trail Festival
The 23rd edition of the Stone Cat Trail Race – and second addition of its reincarnation as the TARC Stone Cat Trail Festival – took place on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, at Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich, Mass. Runners took on a variety of distances, from 100K and 50-mile ultramarathons, to marathon, half marathon and 10K sub-ultra distances and a free youth fun run. Runners enjoyed a dry course on a breezy day with temperatures in the 40s and 50s.
Continue reading Results: TARC Stone Cat Trail FestivalFirst-Timers Flourish, Baker Sizzles in Return to Womp Romp
The last time Jason Baker stepped to a starting line in Massachusetts, he was relatively new to trail-racing. It was 2021, and the then-23-year-old had just jumped into the sport with solid ultramarathon efforts at the Ragged 50K and Kilkenny Ridge 50-miler in New Hampshire, the Post Canyon 50K in Oregon. That October, he signed up for a new race in Massachusetts – the Womp Romp 10-miler – at Wompatuck State Park in Hingham, Mass.
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