When the Trail Animals Running Club revived the Stone Cat Trail Race in 2023 and restored the event’s original 50-mile and marathon distances, a few new distances were added to improve access to those seeking to run fewer miles–and one was added to entice runners to go even farther. That latter distance, the 100K, has rewarded and–mostly–punished those who dared attempt it during the three editions. The most recent offering came at the 24th edition of the Stone Cat Trail Race – and third addition of its reincarnation as the TARC Stone Cat Trail Festival–on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, at Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich, Mass.

Of the 478 runners who took part in Stone Cat’s various distances, just 14 attempted the 100K. Of those who started, just four completed the race. Nobody had a finer day than Annika Rollock. She ran smart and disciplined throughout. After sitting in third for her first of five loops through the course, she took command during loop two and never looked back. Rollock, 29, of Cambridge, Mass., won the race outright by more than an hour and was the lone female finisher in 12:13:46. Alex Klalo, 25, of Barnegat, N.J., was second in 13:28:36, followed by Brendan Walsh, 24, of Westford, Mass., in 13:42:28. Adam Patisteas, 39, of Sudbury, Mass., was the final finisher in 13:57:16.

Rollock was the second female to win the 100K outright in the three years it has been offered. In the inaugural offering, Lila Gaudrault won the race and set the female course record of 10:49:42. Of the 18 runners who started that year, just six finished. In 2024, 20 runners started and just eight finished. Zack Beavin led the way and set the male course record of 10:16:41.

In the 50-mile race, a Stone Cat newcomer delivered a dynamite debut performance. Carter Tracy has had several strong performances during the past two years, beginning with a solid 50-mile debut at the 2024 Jigger Johnson Ultras, followed by a winning 41-mile effort at the White Lake Ultras 6-Hour. Tracy then logged third-place finishes at the Chocura Mountain Race 23K, Baldface Scramble 29K, and Jigger Johnson 20-miler in his build-up to Stone Cat. Racing on friendlier terrain, the 24-year-old from Lebanon, N.H., hammered his four loops of the course and led the race wire-to-wire, winning by more than 90 minutes in 8:19:28. Runner-up Robert Murphy, 24, of Brighton, Mass., got stronger as the day went along and climbed from 11th to second in 9:54:00. Lucas Ehinger, 25, of Allston, Mass., was third in 10:08:50.

Chloe Kenyon, 27, of Gloucester, Mass., had a strong day of racing and topped the female field by more than an hour, winning in 11:32:49. Erika Mincarelli, 31, of Plainville, Mass., was a distant second in 12:47:32, followed by Nicole Negowetti, 44, of Melrose, Mass., in 13:19:51.

Sixty-nine runners started the 50-miler, and 41 finished within 14 1/2 hours.

In the marathon, Nick Franchi led for the first half of the race before Steve Mantell moved to the front and pulled away. Andrew Hempstead also caught and passed Franchi during the second half of the race. Ultimately, Mantell, 33, of Brookline, Mass., won in 3:51:45, followed by Hempstead, 30, of Dedham, Mass., in 4:00:41. Franchi, 30, of North Grafton, Mass., was third in 4:07:32, holding off 51-year-old William Guptill of North Andover, Mass., who was fourth in 4:11:57. Anthony Accardi, 24, of Groveland, Mass., and Ben Schersten, 46, of Danvers, Mass., followed shortly after in 4:13:27 and 4:14:52. Stone Cat regular George Aponte Clarke, 57, of Portland, Maine, was seventh in 4:19:28. Moments after Clarke finished, top female finisher Kayla Kroning raced across the finish line. Kroning, 29, of Quincy, Mass., was the female champion in 4:20:29. She was joined on the podium by Madison Collins, 28, of Cambridge, Mass., and Stacia Broderick, 47, of Tisbury, Mass., who finished in 4;23:23 and 4:28:14, respectively. Elizabeth Ryan, 38, of Billerica, Mass., was fourth in 4:33:44, and Emily Penn, 29, of Somerville, Mass., was fifth in 4:48:50. Eighty-seven runners finished the marathon within 10 hours.

In addition to the 100K, half marathon and 10K races were new additions to Stone Cat that were added by TARC Race Director Patrick Caron, as was a free youth fun run.

In the half marathon, 29-year-old Rhys Burgett of Severna Park, Md., won by nine minutes in 1:32:45, narrowly missing the male course record of 1:32:12 set by Sean MacDonald in 2024. Benjamin Sawyer, 41, of Beverly Mass., and Michael Sage, 34, of Charlestown, Mass., joined him on the male podium in 1:41:21 and 1:41:41, respectively. First-place female Emma Walter, 25, of Somerville, Mass., won comfortably and was fourth overall in 1:47:03 and set a new course record, breaking Lindsay Weigel’s mark of 1:48:22 from 2023. Kara Yifru, 44, of North Easton, Mass., and Mckenzie Melius, 29, of Boonton, N.J., were second and third in 1:59:34 and 2:04:21, respectively. Liana Kramer, 30, of Somerville, Mass., was the nonbinary winner in 2:21:14, followed by Michael Goolkasian, 60, of Ipswich, Mass., in 3:14:17. A field of 176 runners finished within five hours.

Another 116 runners finished the 10K race within 2 1/2 hours. Benjamin Morse, 24, of Sunderland, Mass., cruised to the overall victory in 47:28. A close battle for second place in the male field followed, with Raul Alejandro edging Dave Long. Alejandro, 41, of Gloucester, Mass., finished in 51:03 and Long, 51, of Beverly, Mass., was third in 51:39. Abigail Postlewaite won decisively in the female field, finishing in 55:25. Lauren Kilmer, 50, of Sharon, Mass., and Shelly Wanamaker, 39, of Gloucester, Mass., were second and third in 57:21 and 59:18, respectively. A notable finisher of the 10K race was 76-year-old Roger Martell of Topsfield, Mass. Martell is a former Stone Cat RD, who also organizes the popular G.A.C. Fat Ass 50K each January.

Up Next for the TARC Trail Series: The TARC Trail Series continues on Saturday, Nov. 15, with the TARCkey Trot 6-Hour Ultra at Wright-Locke Farm in Winchester, Mass. Following the TARCkey Trot, the Trail Series will conclude with the TARC Winter Classic on Dec. 6 at the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Stoneham, Mass., where runners will take on 40-mile, 32-mile and 8-mile trail races on the Skyline Trail.