The June 13-15 weekend was relatively quiet on the New England ultrarunning scene, with runners gathering at one race in Connecticut and scattering to just a handful of others across the country. Locally, a pair of Massachusetts residents earned victories at the Ansonia Six-Hour Trail Run in Connecticut, while a few more raced in Wisconsin and New York. It all adds up to some light reading in this edition of the roundup.
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MassUltra Roundup: Malibu Canyon, Huron 100, San Diego 100, Sawmill, Silver State, and Great Divide
New Englanders collected hard-earned finishes – and a few victories – at ultramarathons in the West and Midwest during the June 6-8 weekend. Here in Part II of this week’s roundup we check in on those regions, with results from California, Michigan, Nevada and Colorado, but a pair of New England women lead us off with Shae Regan’s overall win at the Malibu Canyon 50K and Johanna Ylanen’s victory at the Huron 100.
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The June 6-8 weekend was busy for New England ultrarunners who took on races from coast to coast. In this week’s two-part roundup, we begin on the East Coast where a large gathering of runners took part in the Drummer Hill Trail Races in New Hampshire. Then we head to Virginia for the classic Old Dominion 100 and the Dam Yeti 50, before closing out in South Carolina at the Hell Hole 100.
Continue reading MassUltra Roundup: Drummer Hill, Old Dominion, Dam Yeti, and Hell Hole 100MassUltra Roundup: Worlds End, Berry Mountain, Salt Lake Foothills, North Fork 50/50, Mohican, and Smith Rock Classic
While the Chesterfield Gorge Ultra in Massachusetts was the hottest – and wettest – place to race in the region during the May 30-June 1 weekend, several New Englanders closed out the month with strong performances at ultras nationwide. Still, of all the locations to race, Pennsylvania is where they threw down the hardest, with a pair of Rhode Island residents, Ben Quatromoni and Sandy Spitler, earning victories at the Worlds End Ultras and Connecticut’s Caitlin Rossi taking the overall win at the inaugural Berry Mountain 12-Hour Challenge. They lead off this edition of the roundup.
Continue reading MassUltra Roundup: Worlds End, Berry Mountain, Salt Lake Foothills, North Fork 50/50, Mohican, and Smith Rock ClassicMassUltra Roundup: Infinitus, Manchester 2 Monadnock, Pineland Farms, and the Flagstaff Buffaloops Ultra
The ultrarunning scene was hot across northern New England during Memorial Day weekend with events in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The Infinitus ultras wound down to close out 10 days of muddy miles on the trails of Vermont at the multi-day classic. In New Hampshire, runners journeyed on roads and trails before climbing a mountain at the Manchester 2 Monadnock 55-miler. Finally, Maine’s Pineland Farms Trail Festival made 100 miles more tempting with a 30-hour option this year, and several runners from the region took advantage. We have all of those events covered – plus the Flagstaff Buffaloops Ultra in Arizona – in this edition of the roundup.
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The May 16-18 weekend was busy in Massachusetts with a pair of ultras on the calendar: the Free Spirit 50K in Leyden and the inaugural BURCS Tails & Trails State Forest Run in Pittsfield. We’ll have both covered in separate recaps, but there was plenty more action in the northeast and nationwide for New England ultrarunners. In New England, that included the Run Ragged Last Person Standing race in Connecticut, which was won by Andreas Mucchietto of Cambridge, Mass. Additionally, Jack Mantell of Newton, Mass., earned a podium finish in the 50-miler at Mayapple in New Jersey. We also catch up on tough 100-milers in Virginia and Georgia, before closing out in Arizona. There’s plenty of action to read about in this edition of the roundup.
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We close out the May 10-11 weekend ultrarunning roundups here at home in New England for Part III with three events that were daunting in their own unique ways. In Connecticut, runners took on a loop course for 10 hours of endurance fun at the Spring Fling 600. In Vermont, the Blood Root Ultras are always tough, with big climbs, mud and more at the multi-distance festival. But we begin in Maine with the Riverlands 100. Riverlands has thrown all sorts of challenging conditions at runners through the years, including extreme heat in 2022. But this year … this was the year that put the “river” in Riverlands.
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Our journey through New Englanders’ ultrarunning exploits from the May 10-11 weekend continues in Part II of this week’s roundup as we work our way closer to home. After starting in the West, this edition highlights several events in the East, from North Carolina, New York and West Virginia, to Ohio and Pennsylvania, leading off with Massachusetts resident Samuel Cohen’s podium finish at the Hellbender 100.
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The May 10-11 weekend saw a handful of ultras across New England as runners endured sloppy, soggy conditions from Massachusetts to Maine. Even with all of the local action, several runners from the region scattered throughout the country to race, and we’re catching up on their results with a few region-based roundups. We start in the West, where New Englanders secured hard-earned finishes at the Jemez Mountain Trail Runs in New Mexico and Tillamook Burn in Oregon.
Continue reading MassUltra Roundup: Jemez Mountain and Tillamook BurnMassUltra Roundup: White Lake Ultras, Forgotten Forest, and the Blue 2 Blue Challenge
The first weekend of May saw a trio of ultras play out in New England, with several record-breaking performances in New Hampshire at the White Lake Ultras, and big performances at the Forgotten Forest 9-Hour Ultra and the Blue 2 Blue Challenge 50K in Connecticut. We have them all covered here in Part II of this week’s roundup.
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