While a few-dozen New Englanders were taking on the tough trails and unmarked course of the Trail Animals Running Club’s “Don’t Run Boston” 50K and 50-mile ultras at the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Mass., several other runners from the region were scattered throughout the country for a variety of other ultras during the April 12-14 weekend. Some stayed in the region for the classic Traprock 50K in Connecticut, where some of the finest performances in the event’s 14-year history were delivered. Others headed to nearby New York for the English’s Ridge Rumble. Several more raced out West, in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah, while a few more headed South to Virginia. We have them all covered in this jam-packed edition of the roundup.

The April 5-7 weekend featured plenty of tough running in sloppy conditions at the Mt. Toby Trail Race in Sunderland,  Mass., but a few New Englanders opted for other environments as they scattered the country to race in Georgia and North Carolina, as well as Texas and Washington. Results have yet to be posted for the Ancient Lakes 50K in Washington and the Brazos Bend 50 in Texas, but New Englanders earned 100-mile finishes at the Bootlegger 100 in Georgia and the Umstead 100 in North Carolina, highlighting this edition of the roundup.

The busiest March ultrarunning slate in recent memory for New Englanders came to a close with a relatively quiet March 30-31 weekend. Just a handful of runners from the region took on ultras with a few traveling to Georgia for the Georgia Death Race and two more heading west to Utah for the Antelope Island Buffalo Run. We have both covered in this edition of the roundup.

After starting in the South and then venturing to the Midwest and West, we close out our March 22-24 weekend roundups by returning to the Northeast. While many runners from the region stayed close to home and raced the TARC To Hale and Back 6-Hour Ultra in Massachusetts (see separate recap story), runners also took on ultras in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We start in New York with the Spring on the Trails Endurance Runs and the inaugural Devil’s Shadow 50K, and then head to New Jersey for the rugged Mt. Tammany 10 before finishing up in Pennsylvania at the Bullshit Backyard Ultra.

New Englanders made the most of opportunities to race ultras during the jam-packed March 22-24 weekend, as many raced locally at the TARC To Hale and Back 6-Hour Ultra in Massachusetts and several others scattered throughout the country to at least a dozen other starting lines. Our first roundup of the week focused on local runners’ results at ultras in the South. Here in our second roundup, we head to the heartland and the West where New Englanders took on Ohio’s Backyard Ultra, the Prairie Spirit Trail Ultra in Kansas, the Behind the Rocks Ultras in Utah, and the classic Crown King Scramble in Arizona.