A big day of ultramarathon racing in Connecticut was the top regional highlight during the June 14-16 weekend as Mike Davis hammered out 58.8 miles at the inaugural Brooksvale 12-Hour Ultra. That event, as well as the Highlands Sky 40-miler in West Virginia and the Groundhog Ultra in Florida, are our featured East Coast races in the second half of this week’s roundup.

The June 14-16 weekend included another jam-packed slate of ultramarathons, and New Englanders took to the trails from coast to coast. Runners from the region did so much racing that the weekend merits two roundups. We’ll finish in the East, where results are still coming in from the Brooksvale 12-hour in Connecticut, and runners also raced in West Virginia and Florida, but we start in the West where veterans and first-time ultrarunners alike took on races in Wyoming, Oregon, Arizona and Utah. Additionally, a handful of New Englanders took on the Tahoe 200, but final results were not posted at the time of publication.

New England made its mark on the West Coast during the June 7-9 weekend. Rachel Bainbridge of Concord, Mass., earned a spot on the podium at the McKenzie River Trail Run 50K in Oregon; Scott Traer of Woburn, Mass., was victorious at the Malibu Canyon 50-miler in California; and Cordon Louco of Wenham, Mass., took top honors in his ultramarathon debut in Oregon. Those big performances highlight this edition of the roundup.

A jam-packed June 7-9 weekend saw ultrarunners from New England take on at least eight events nationwide, from the low-key, high-fun Drummer Hill 50K in New Hampshire, to a slew of ultras around the country. We’ll catch up on results from events in the West in a second roundup, but here in Part I we focus on ultras in the East, ranging from the Kettle Moraine 100 in Wisconsin, to the OSS/CIA 50 in Virginia, to the Bethel Hill Moonlight Boogie in North Carolina, as well as Merrill’s Mile in Georgia and Laurel Highlands in Pennsylvania. But we start off close to home with Drummer Hill to kick off a lengthy edition of the roundup.

June opened with International Trails Day, and ultrarunners from New England celebrated by racing locally – at the Chesterfield Gorge Ultra in Massachusetts (separate recap article), the Last Human Standing event in Rhode Island (results unavailable at time of publication), and the seventh edition of the Connecticut Ultra Traverse, where Justin Kousky delivered his latest course-record performance. Additionally, some runners stayed in the Northeast to race the Cayuga Trails 50, while others ventured to Virginia for the Old Dominion 100 and Dam Yeti 50, Pennsylvania for the grueling Worlds End 100K and 50K, down to South Carolina for the Hell Hole Hundred, and out West to Alaska. We have it all covered in this jam-packed edition of the roundup.

Memorial Day weekend was relatively quiet on the ultrarunning scene nationwide with just a handful of events, including the final days of Infinitus in Vermont and the Trail Festival at Pineland Farms in Maine. Given the limited number of ultras available, Framingham resident Ryan Fecteau picked up the extra mileage for everyone as he closed out his 888K performance at Infinitus. That massive effort leads off this edition of the roundup.