New England ultrarunners did plenty of pre- and post-Thanksgiving feasting on trails in the region and across the country. Some did so at the historic JFK 50, while Conor Brown and Bill Tidd turned in historic performances at the Mount Ascutney Vertical Backyard Ultra in Vermont. We have those races and more included in this holiday edition of the roundup.

The Nov. 14-16 weekend saw a months-long flurry of trail ultramarathons in New England come to a close with the Trail Animals Running Club’s TARCkey Trot 6-Hour Ultra in Massachusetts. We’ll have that covered in a separate recap, but here in the roundup we’ll catch up on how runners from New England did at ultras beyond the region. We begin in Virginia, where several runners took on a time-based race and Maine’s Shannon Johnson earned a place on the podium for a 100-mile performance. Then we head to North Carolina and Utah to close out the report.

New England had plenty of ultramarathon action during the Nov. 7-9 weekend, and we have it covered here in Part II of this week’s roundup. Several runners competed in the Race for DFL in Massachusetts, which we’ll have covered in a separate story. But in Maine, runners took on rugged coastal terrain at the Bold Coast Bash 50K, and a half dozen more raced on the roads in Connecticut at the Roxbury Marathon 50K. Additionally, we catch up on action beyond New England, with the Mountaineer Rumble 100 in South Carolina, Tampa Bay 100 in Florida, the Mamba 100 in Tennessee, and Tunnel Hill in Illinois.