The Sept. 15-17 weekend was a busy one for ultrarunners in Massachusetts with ultra events in both the eastern and western parts of the Commonwealth (MetroWest Backyard Ultra in Needham and the Free to Run Trail Races in Pittsfield), but the racing didn’t stop there. Many New Englanders also gathered in New Hampshire for the classic Pisgah Mountain Trail Races, where Brian Rusiecki returned to a course he knows well and secured another victory. Others headed to New York for the Pawling 24 time-based event, while others headed south to Georgia and Tennessee or west to Arizona to compete. We have them all covered in this edition of the roundup.

From mid-September through early November is typically the busiest stretch of the ultrarunning season, and that trend did not let up during the Sept. 8-10 weekend as New Englanders tackled races locally and all across the country. Nearly 500 runners took part in the annual TARC Fall Classic in Carlisle, Mass. (separate recap to follow), but many runners branched out across the region – from Maine and Connecticut – to race. Several others scattered throughout the country to tackle 100-mile races, from New York to Utah, to Arizona, Oregon and Pennsylvania. And that’s just the ultras that have posted their results so far! Collectively, that makes for plenty of reading in this edition of the roundup.