The Oct. 7-8 weekend was Midstate Massive weekend for hundreds of ultrarunners throughout New England as the three-distance event – 100-miles, 50 miles and 30-miles – took runners into four of the region’s states. Still, it was far from the only ultra event in New England that weekend as two other popular events also took place: Bubba’s Backyard Ultra in New Hampshire and the Big Brad Ultras in Maine. There were several other ultras across the country that attracted runners from the region – and we’ll have them covered in a second roundup – but this edition stays in New England.

While dozens of New England ultrarunners ventured outside of the region to race during the Sept. 30-Oct. 1 weekend, many stayed in the Northeast to tackle courses nearby, from steep, mountainous terrain to rolling singletrack and doubletrack, to easy-running gravel and even a track. Here in part two of the weekly roundup we catch up on the ultras that happened in New England and nearby New York and New Jersey. Big performances abounded, from a 100-miler with more than 40,000 feet of climbing in Vermont, to a record-setting night at the Joe English Twilight Challenge in New Hampshire that leads off this edition of the roundup.

September ended and October began with another jam-packed weekend of ultramarathon racing for New Englanders. In fact, runners from the region tackled more than a dozen ultras from coast to coast. That’s more than enough ultras to make Sept. 30-Oct. 1 a two-roundup week so we’re splitting it up between ultras in the Northeast and everything else. Here in part one we highlight a half-dozen ultras – most of them in the west, including the 25th edition of The Bear 100. Three others outside the Northeast (Saddle2Surf, Rio Grande 100, and the Stanky Creek 50K) had New England entrants but haven’t yet posted results. Even without them, this made for a looooooong edition of the roundup.

The Sept. 22-24 weekend was surprisingly quiet in Massachusetts, but it was busy in the rest of New England as the legendary Vermont 50 turned 30, the Angevine Farm 50K and Enchanted Forest 6-hour took place in Connecticut, and Uphill Will made its debut in Maine. All of those regional races are featured in this edition of the roundup.

After several weekends of ultras in Massachusetts, Sept. 22-24 was quiet in the Bay State … but not anywhere else. Runners from the Commonwealth and throughout New England were busy tackling ultras seemingly everywhere else. There were so many races, in fact, that they merit being split into two roundups this week – one for New England races and another for ultras elsewhere. We start beyond the region with a look at how local runners performed in New Jersey, California, Oregon and Arizona. Additionally, we catch up on New Englanders who completed the Run Rabbit Run 100-miler on Sept. 15-17 in Colorado. It’s a jam-packed edition of the roundup – and it’s only part one this week.

The Sept. 15-17 weekend was a busy one for ultrarunners in Massachusetts with ultra events in both the eastern and western parts of the Commonwealth (MetroWest Backyard Ultra in Needham and the Free to Run Trail Races in Pittsfield), but the racing didn’t stop there. Many New Englanders also gathered in New Hampshire for the classic Pisgah Mountain Trail Races, where Brian Rusiecki returned to a course he knows well and secured another victory. Others headed to New York for the Pawling 24 time-based event, while others headed south to Georgia and Tennessee or west to Arizona to compete. We have them all covered in this edition of the roundup.