As the 2025 ultrarunning season rolls through its final months, runners are scrambling to squeeze in a few more finishes, and in some cases their first ultras. That made the Nov. 7-9 weekend another busy one as New Englanders scattered from coast to coast. Here in Part I of this week’s two-part roundup, we highlight results from the West Coast where New Englanders raced in California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.

Nearly 1,000 trail- and ultrarunners took part in local events in New England during the first weekend of November. We had those events covered in Part I of this week’s roundup. Here in Part II, we look outside New England and catch up on how runners from the region did at races from coast to coast.

The October 31-Nov. 2 weekend saw New England play host to four trail ultramarathons – three of them massive events. We’ll catch up on the largest, the TARC Stone Cat Trail Festival, in a separate recap, but here in Part I of this week’s roundup we’ll focus on the others: the Hamsterwheel in New Hampshire, and RutFest in Vermont. We’ll also check in on 8 Hours at the Farm in Connecticut, and then turn back the clock a few weeks to catch up on the results of the Bimbler’s Bluff 50K. 

The Oct. 24-26 weekend roundup takes us all over the country, from Maine to Tennessee, to West Virginia, to Arizona, and on to Utah, where New Englanders turned out in force. In Maine, Massachusetts resident Daniel Grip sizzled with a hard-fought 50-mile victory at the Big Brad Ultras, while in Tennessee it was Massachusetts resident Laura Ricci who raced to a runner-up performance at the No Business 100. Runners from the region also earned finishes at the Rim to River 100 in West Virginia’s New River Gorge, the Javelina Jundred in the desert of Arizona, and the slickrock trails of Moab at the Canyonlands Ultra. Additionally, we turn back the clock to Oct. 18-19 to learn about Massachusetts resident Hank Xi’s strong showing at the Bromont Ultra 100-miler in Canada. We have it all covered in this edition of the roundup.

The Oct. 17-19 weekend in New England meant hundreds of runners gathered in Brookline, N.H., for the popular Ghost Train Rail Trail Race. We’ll have that covered in a separate recap, but in this edition of the roundup we catch up on the handful of New Englanders who weren’t at Ghost Train. A few took on the Tesla Hertz Run in New York, which had been postponed by a week due to thunderstorms. Results from Tesla Hertz were unavailable at the time of publication. Results are in from the California Fall Classic at Lake Sonoma in California, and the New Orleans Ultramarathon, and we have those included as some light reading in this edition of the roundup.

The busiest time of year for ultrarunning in Massachusetts is under way, and the Oct. 10-12 weekend saw hundreds of runners take part in local events, between the Midstate Massive Ultra-Trail 100-mile, 50-mile and 50K ultras that traversed the state from north to south, and the Village Ultra in New Salem. We will have those covered in separate stories, but here in this week’s roundup we catch up on other events in the region, as well as how New Englanders performed across the country. Results from the Land of Light 100K in Maine and the Devil’s Den Ultra in Vermont were unavailable at the time of publication, so we begin in Connecticut with the annual Forbidden Forest 30-Hour Ultra. Additionally, we catch up on the Cape Fear 24-hour in North Carolina and the Moab 240 in Utah.

Part I of this week’s roundup focused on results in the West; here in Part II we turn to the East, and what a weekend it was. Bubba’s Backyard Ultra in New Hampshire was the place to be in New England during the Oct. 3-5 weekend. There were two additional 50Ks in the region–the Little Duck 50K in Maine and the CT Donut Run 31.5-miler in Connecticut (results from both events were unavailable at the time of publication)–but Bubba’s was the only place where you could literally run for days on end. A few runners did, led by Lukas Janulaitis who endured 53 hours on a 3.5-mile loop course to win. He had plenty of company for most of those hours as the two best male and female performances in event history were tuned in. In addition to Bubba’s, we head to Pennsylvania where a New Englander earned a top-10 finish at the Black Forest Ultra.

October started fast for New England ultrarunners. There were three events here in the region during the Oct. 3-5 weekend, but New Englanders also traveled to several other ultras throughout the country for some hard-earned finishes and strong results. Here in Part I of this week’s roundup we catch up on results from the West, including ultras in Colorado, Arizona, California, Idaho and Utah. We begin in Colorado, where Connecticut’s Chase Smith outdueled his younger brother for a victory and course record.

The ultrarunning scene was hopping in New England to close out September. A trio of events took place in Massachusetts – the MetroWest Backyard Ultra, and a pair of new events, the Race for the Refuge and the BURCS Notchview Invitational. We’ll have those covered in separate recaps, but there was plenty of additional action in the region, including the classic Vermont 50, and the Farm to Farm Ultra in Maine. We have both of those covered, as well as ultra results in Georgia and Colorado, in this week’s roundup.

In Part I of this week’s roundup, we caught up with New Englanders at five ultramarathons in the West. Here in Part II, we close out our coverage of the Sept. 19-21 weekend by returning to the East Coast, starting in New Hampshire where a number of New Englanders ventured to the White Mountains for a challenging day on the Kilkenny Ridge. Additionally, we catch up with results from the Wild Goose Trail Festival in New Jersey, and the Georgia Jewel.