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McNaughton Park Trail Runs United States: Miwok 100K Trail Race United States: Moab 240 United States: Mountain Masochist Trail Run Hong Kong: Oxfam Trailwalker Australia Germany: Rennsteiglauf South Africa: Rhodes Trail Run United Kingdom: Spine Race United States: StumpJump 50k New Zealand: Tarawera Ultramarathon Japan: Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji ...
In the United Kingdom, the Trail Running Association was formed in 1991. The International Trail Running Association (ITRA) was founded in 2013, [11] and was first recognized by the IAAF in 2015. Distances in races vary widely, from 5 km, to over 100 miles (161 km). Many trail races are of ultramarathon distance. Races of similar distances ...
Neither the race nor the accompanying vaudeville show was a financial success. [134] In the 1980s, Gary "Lazarus Lake" Cantrell and Karl "Raw Dog" Henn conceived the Barkley Marathons, an annual trail race held in March or April in Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee. The course is approximately 20 miles long with approximately 11,000 feet of ...
It is run on the first Friday and Saturday in September. The race was founded by Harry Sloan in 1991, who served as race director from 1991 until 1997. [1] The current race director is John Storkamp, and the race is organized by RockSteady Running. [2] Representative view of the Superior Hiking Trail, along which the Superior 100 is run.
The races have strict entry and qualification requirements attained by accumulating enough race points through qualifying trail races over the previous two-year period. In 2016 and 2017, 42% and 35% of runners did not finish the UTMB race. [3] While the best runners complete the loop in slightly more than 20 hours, most runners take 32 to 46 ...
Fell running is often known as hill running, particularly in Scotland. [5] It is sometimes called mountain running, as in the name of the Northern Ireland Mountain Running Association [6] although the term mountain running often has connotations of WMRA races which tend to be on smoother, drier trails and lack the route choice which may be available in fell races.
[11] The 41.2-mile race is still held annually and is one of the oldest ultramarathons in the Southern United States. [11] In 1986, Lake created the Barkley Marathons, a trail race so difficult that it would become known as "the race that eats its young." The 100-mile competition added elements of orienteering and off trail scrambling.
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