A jam-packed June 7-9 weekend saw ultrarunners from New England take on at least eight events nationwide, from the low-key, high-fun Drummer Hill 50K in New Hampshire, to a slew of ultras around the country. We’ll catch up on results from events in the West in a second roundup, but here in Part I we focus on ultras in the East, ranging from the Kettle Moraine 100 in Wisconsin, to the OSS/CIA 50 in Virginia, to the Bethel Hill Moonlight Boogie in North Carolina, as well as Merrill’s Mile in Georgia and Laurel Highlands in Pennsylvania. But we start off close to home with Drummer Hill to kick off a lengthy edition of the roundup.

June opened with International Trails Day, and ultrarunners from New England celebrated by racing locally – at the Chesterfield Gorge Ultra in Massachusetts (separate recap article), the Last Human Standing event in Rhode Island (results unavailable at time of publication), and the seventh edition of the Connecticut Ultra Traverse, where Justin Kousky delivered his latest course-record performance. Additionally, some runners stayed in the Northeast to race the Cayuga Trails 50, while others ventured to Virginia for the Old Dominion 100 and Dam Yeti 50, Pennsylvania for the grueling Worlds End 100K and 50K, down to South Carolina for the Hell Hole Hundred, and out West to Alaska. We have it all covered in this jam-packed edition of the roundup.

Memorial Day weekend was relatively quiet on the ultrarunning scene nationwide with just a handful of events, including the final days of Infinitus in Vermont and the Trail Festival at Pineland Farms in Maine. Given the limited number of ultras available, Framingham resident Ryan Fecteau picked up the extra mileage for everyone as he closed out his 888K performance at Infinitus. That massive effort leads off this edition of the roundup.

In Part I of the May 17-19 weekend roundup we focused on results at ultras in the Northeast. Here in Part 2, we turn to the rest of the country. New Englanders had big performances from coast to coast, but nobody threw down harder than Rhode Island resident Ben Quatromoni who smashed the course record at the grueling Cruel Jewel 100-miler in Georgia. From there we turn to Virginia and the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100, and then stop off in North Carolina before heading West to Utah, Colorado, and California.

Mid-May stayed red hot for ultrarunning in New England. Here in Massachusetts, the second annual Free Spirit 50K welcomed runners to Leyden, and two more runners – 22-year-old Lukas Janulaitis of Manchester, N.H (12:11:46) and David Marsh, 21, of Marstons Mills, Mass. (19:07:00) – completed the Cape Cod Race Against the Tides unsanctioned solo run. Beyond the Bay State, runners took on the grueling Manchester 2 Monadnock 55-miler in New Hampshire and the Run Ragged Last Person Standing event in Connecticut, which saw Sarah Connor outlast everyone. We catch up on both of those events, as well as a pair of New Jersey ultras – Mayapple and 3 Days at the Fair – in Part I of the roundup from the May 17-19 weekend. In Part 2, we will venture outside of the Northeast, where runners from the region took on at least seven other ultras across the country.