STONEHAM, Mass. – Emily Rose had a few simple goals for the Fells Winter Ultra 40-miler, and none of them involved winning.
“Today I wanted to not get timed out; I didn’t want to DNF because of time,” she said. “My next goal was I didn’t want to need to have a headlamp, and I just wanted to not be hurting a lot – which I wasn’t. I actually felt really good!” Continue reading No Headlamp Necessary: Rose Outruns Darkness, Others in Fells 40-Mile Victory
STONEHAM, Mass. – Isaac Burleigh hasn’t lived in Massachusetts for very long – he moved to Somerville from Socorro, N.M., in September – but he spent his first two months in town exploring the trails of the Middlesex Fells Reservation.
Burleigh ultimately made the Fells his first trail race in Massachusetts. He joined 27 other runners in taking on the 40-mile race at the Trail Animals Running Club’s Fells Winter Ultra on Saturday, Dec. 2. The Fells has dozens of miles of trails winding throughout the more than 2,200-acre reservation. The race consisted of five eight-mile loops of the Skyline Trail and took runners over the reservation’s biggest climbs and some of its most technical sections. Continue reading Burleigh Delivers Strong Performance in Massachusetts Debut, Wins Fells 40-Miler
The following are just a few of the nearly 200 photos we have from the 2017 Fells Winter Ultra. To view the full gallery on the MassUltra Facebook page, click here. Continue reading Photo Gallery: Fells Winter Ultra
The Trail Animals Running Club played host to the Fells Winter Ultra 40-mile and 32-mile trail ultramarathons on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Stoneham, Mass. Sixteen runners finished the 40-mile race, and 66 finished the 32-mile race. Continue reading Results: TARC Fells Winter Ultra
Thanksgiving loomed just five days away, but Joshua Fiore wasn’t at the Trail Animals Running Club’s second annual TARCkey Trot 6-Hour Run on Saturday, Nov. 18, hoping to burn off a few extra calories before chowing down on a holiday feast.
Instead, Fiore came to the race at Wright-Locke Farm in Winchester, Mass., and Whipple Hill in neighboring Lexington with his sights set on a much grander goal four weeks later. Continue reading Fiore Savors Final Tune-Up at TARCkey Trot as Iceland Awaits
The Trail Animals Running Club’s second annual TARCkey Trot 6-Hour Ultra and 5K trail races took place Saturday, Nov. 18, on the trails of Whipple Hill and Wright-Locke Farm in Winchester and Lexington, Mass. The course consisted of a 3.1-mile loop that runners circled either once in the 5K race or as many times as they could within the six-hour time limit in the ultra event. Continue reading Results: TARCkey Trot 6-Hour
Aliza Lapierre doesn’t run the Stone Cat 50 every year, but she’s unstoppable when she does.
She won the race in 2007, 2009 and 2011, the latter two of which produced the two fastest times on the women’s course record board leading into the 17th running of the event on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich, Mass. Continue reading Lapierre Delivers Another Classic at Stone Cat
The Berkshire Arts & Technology (BART) Charter Public School spends its cross country season competing at shorter distances such as 5Ks, but the program’s relatively new postseason tradition has runners tackling longer distances – much longer. Continue reading BART Runners Log Big Miles at 8-Hour Ultra
The 17th annual Stone Cat Trail Races took place Saturday, Nov. 4, at Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich, Mass. More than 100 runners completed the 50-mile ultramarathon, and more than 200 completed the marathon. Continue reading Results: Stone Cat Trail Races
The Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School (BART) cross country team closed out its season with its third annual Howl-Weenie and Half-a-Weenie Endurance Runs on Saturday, Nov. 4, at Greylock Glen Pavilion in Adams, Mass. Runners took part in an 8-hour endurance run, as well as a half-marathon. Continue reading Results: BART Howl-Weenie 8-Hour
