By Mathias Eichler
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Back on Tour for 2025.
The Trail Running Film Festival presented by Brooks -
Back on Tour for 2025.
Big news you before the end of 2024:
Gran Canaria World Trail Majors is pleased to announce the creation of the Short Series by Gran Canaria World Trail Majors to include more trail runners to its already established long distance series. The Short Series follows the same model as the long-distance races, open to all, built on diversity and respect, independent, but aiming to be more inclusive for more runners. If World Trail Majors are “Races of a Lifetime” Short Series are also “Races for Everyone”.
Shorter distance races at the already established events of the WTM Series feel like a logical next step in the development of the WTM. There will be points and cash prizes that follow the same model established for the longer events:
Even though recovery from shorter races does not take as long, only the two best results of the season will be counted, in order not to make them incompatible with other races and series.
This certainly expands the initial vision for the WTM and it will be interesting to see how this all grows and plays out. Well, one of my predictions for 2025 already come to fruition at the very end of 2024: “An expansion in one of the race series that are currently competing that has the chance to shake things up.”
This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review.
This was December 2024 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.
We’ve made it to the end of 2024. Thanks for hanging with me. Let’s close things off with some fun stuff:
And UTMB opens its registration for the World Series Finals in Chamonix and the demand is so high that their servers melt due to overload.
UTMB announce the entry fees for the World Series Finals for 2025 and I look at some comparisons across the industry. Then the registration for their lottery opens and demand is so high that their servers melt due to overload, or bad programming. And speaking of bad ideas: someone in a bar in Chamonix made sexual advances in the hope to get a bib for UTMB. This story is fake – but rest assured, demand is high, and so are some people, apparently.
Finally, if you got some free time over the next few days, UTMB released their series ‘Extraordinary Humans’, which initially was created for Eurosport and in partnership with their sponsor Dacia, on Youtube and is now available for everyone to watch.
And that’s a wrap on the year 2024 in trail running and mountain culture. Thanks for sticking around and reading the 7,000 word (ooof!) summary.
This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review. To catch up on the full year review visit RE:RUN.
This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review.
This was November 2024 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.
As the end of the year comes into focus we’re starting to get an idea of how the 2025 trail running season is going to unfold.
Runners for Public Lands is raising awareness of the US National Forest hiring freeze and the possible impact this could have on the permitting for trail race events in the US. I talk with the newest board member of RPL Tim Tollefson about all this on my last episode of Singletrack for 2024.
The media landscape significantly shifted in 2024. About 10 years ago ad sales execs coined the phrase “pivoting to video” as a rallying cry for where big money would be found for creators and media organizations. Over the course of a few years social media mega corps made every journalist and reporter from outfits small to large, independent to traditional believe that the written news is dead and everything needs to be captured and shared in video form – preferable on their platforms, of course. Well, everyone has had been doing that over the last few years, and now just like clockwork the algorithms are squeezing the creators and ad revenues are dwindling. Now folks are looking for the next thing and are pivoting to Substack. Writing is back in fashion. The new platform of choice is of course also a walled garden, and creators will be just as dependent on an algorithms tuned by a VC funded, cash-burning startup that’s flirting with nazis. So in many ways we’ve learned nothing, like it seems we never do. On the upside though a ton of creators with opinions, and trail runners, from elites to amateurs, are sending newsletters and publishing their thoughts and ideas on what looks almost a website. This is a huge positive development for me here at Electric Cable Car and for the industry as a whole. Yes, Substack is many ways just another silo, but at least there’s an RSS feed and it feels somewhat more like a website one can actually properly link to, and read the published content, without having to watch a 20min video or listen to a 90min podcast.
And speaking of opening and and finding once voice, Vincent Bouillard, winner of UTMB 2024, who previously had his Instagram account private, makes it public in late November, posts once and within a couple weeks gains 34,200 followers. In case you’re wondering what a UTMB win can do for your publicity.
This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review. I’ll be dropping the December edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit RE:RUN.
UTMB announces today that ETC, their short race in Courmayeur is already full.
That was fast.
Despite a small fall (from our website) 2 meters from the start, we got back up and you crossed the finish line in record time… the ETC is now sold out.
Last year they offered the chance to obtain a Running Stone for racing this event, this year the event sells out in less than 10 days.
In related news, with the conclusion of the final events in December I updated the Electric Cable Car UTMB World Series Events Calendar. Most dates for their 50+ events are set now all the way through October, 2025.
This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review.
This was October 2024 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.
As we’re entering the last quarter of the year and the mountains receive their first dusting of snow we turn our attention away from the action on the trails and back to what the businesses and organizations that outfit us are up to. And we start with a gut punch. Patagonia is announcing layoffs, a first in a long time (ever?). And this ain’t a canary in a coal mine. The is a clear sign that even the established, measured and highly regarded companies are struggling trying to find footing in this volatile business environment. And hey, tariffs are coming, 2025 will be a wild ride.
In further business news:
Oh, wait, we weren’t fully done with trail news yet. This fall a FKT attempt by Michelino Sunseri who runs up and down the Grand Teton has everyone talking. I had sort of missed the initial news dump as I was in Europe at the time, but Alex Rienzie’s blog post brought the story back onto my desk. I chat with Alex, who was on the mountain documenting the run, on Singletrack about how to look at this from the various angles by the various parties involved. And while I certainly support a conversation about the style and ethics around how we run and record these FKT efforts, I find myself wondering if taking the lawsuit route is really the best thing for everyone involved and for the larger outdoor community. The verdict is still, literally pending.
This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review. I’ll be dropping the September edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit RE:RUN.
I missed posting this announcement from late November, but here’s the list of races for the Skyrunner World Series for 2025:
2025 RACE CALENDAR
Lots of races (sadly Beast of Big Creek is still missing) and a pretty cool webpage to display them all.
German website XC-Run.de has the rundown of the changes in rules and regulations as well as prize money (yes, another translated website today, and the third non-english language to boot):
Based on feedback rounds with athletes, the competition recently presented its global 24-race calendar for next season and made various adjustments to the rules and regulations for the coming season. These changes reflect the competition’s continued commitment to the safety of athletes, fair competition and the steady growth of skyrunning as a global sport.
Prize money increased from €227,000 in 2024 to €250,000 in 2025. I don’t have the exact comparison to last year on how this breaks down, sadly.
Another translated and FAKE!* article, this one from U-Trail:
Chamonix: a trail runner makes sexual advances to employees to obtain a bib for the UTMB
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“She kept saying she would do anything to get a guaranteed bib,” says a regular at the bar.
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Despite the incident, the UTMB organization wanted to reassure the trail running community. “We understand the frustration that a draw can cause, but we remind you that the results are completely random. No inappropriate behavior will change this rule,” said a spokesperson for the event.
It’s never great to make jokes about sexual assault, but man, you could fill a whole stand-up routine at the Western States Training Camp with these.
Via TrailTalk.
* Confirmed that this is a fake story with the UTMB press office.
December 28 is ‘Día de los Santos Inocentes‘ in Spain. Think of it as religious holiday mixed with April Fool’s Day. To celebrate this day the Catalonian trail running blog ‘Ultres Catalunya’ posts some mischief and fun:
Courtney Dauwalter is leaving Salomon to sign for a big club.
As the editorial team of Ultres Catalunya can exclusively reveal, the entity that would be behind this offer is F.C.Barcelona. The Blaugrana entity would be willing to pay this million euros and turn it into the image of the club and the main standard of the new trailrunning section.
Made me laugh.
(Auto-translation tool in my browser failed me. I copied the text of the article and threw it into Google Translate.)
Hat tip to friend of the blog Federico Hernandez.
This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review.
This was September 2024 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.
The month of September exists in the afterglow of the massive UTMB week. Everyone is a bit hungover returning home from the Alps and recovering from their massive runs around Mont Blanc. Or they are heads down and are using the last days of summer to jump into a race themselves one more time.
German Katharina Hartmuth is in the latter category. She decides to skip TDS and races Tor des Géants. Wins the women’s race and set a new course record in the process. Afterwards I chat with her on Singletrack about her crazy year of ups and downs and I’m happy for her that she finishes it on a up, a huge, incredible ‘up’.
And speaking of downs: After 20 years Salomon parts way with the Marathon du Mont-Blanc. This is a massive change, which is foreboding to Salomon later on in the year shaking up their Golden Trail Series and dropping several other big events from their race calendar. To make up for all this Salomon gives us a first in footwear: a gravel shoe.
I find myself still on a high from a successful OCC and decide to take advantage of my body still feeling great, the recent course changes at the Whistler race that are now offering 3 Stones for a race with “just” 69KM and 12,600 ft of vert, and the proximity to my hometown. I spontaneously head across the border to get my 3 stones, yeah baby! And I am also up there to report on an event that almost broke then trail running world when it was first announced, but now when it actually happens no one seems to notice – maybe on purpose.
I had mentioned that trail persona non grata Camille Herron would make it back into the news as the year goes on and here in September a report by Marley Dickison for Canadian Running dropped that no one had on their bingo card for the year and yet there were no surprises either when the news was unveiled.
Acclaimed American ultrarunner Camille Herron, who has more than 12 ultrarunning world records to her name, along with her coach and husband, Conor Holt, have found themselves at the centre of a Wikipedia controversy. It stems from several edits to the Wikipedia pages of ultrarunners Kilian Jornet and Courtney Dauwalter, which degraded their accomplishments, while also adding accolades to Herron’s own page. The edits have been traced back to Herron’s email and Holt’s IP address.
The response to all this comes rather swift: The duo deactivate all their social media accounts, haphazard apologize while claiming no real responsibility in all this, and sponsor Lululemon drops Camille unceremoniously and quite immediate. I’m still not sure why the overall response was that decisive. Yes, the reporting was impeccable and Marley brought receipts, that’s for sure, and that might’ve been enough to dispel any doubts, but it’s also worth noting that no one jumped up in support of Camille. Everyone sort of shrugged and said, out loud or to themselves, “yeah, this checks out”. But, as we’ve learned from the last few years, cancelled people never stay cancelled for long, and in December Aravaipa Running posts an episode of Laps & Legends with Scott Traer and Callie Vinson interviewing Camille Herron celebrating her performances on past Desert Solstice events with no mentions of her actions when she’s not wearing a bib.
This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review. I’ll be dropping the October edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit RE:RUN.
This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review.
This was August 2024 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.
It’s August and as the summer is slowly coming to a close all the important races are happening. Rock Candy Running’s Beast of Big Creek Skyrace kicks off the month that climaxes at the annual UTMB week in the Alps. Beast keeps me busy on the mountain directing a race and away from my computer, heck, the Beast finish line doesn’t even have cell reception. Then the world, and for the first time myself, descend onto Chamonix for THAT Big dance around Mont Blanc. But before we dive into the details of UTMB 2024 a couple other things were noteworthy.
Now, let’s go to Chamonix together. I had been thinking for many months leading up to this – essentially since I had been picked in the lottery to race OCC – that I was taking on a fascinating and brain splitting endeavor: 1. This is foremost a family vacation. 2. I am racing the race of my life and cannot fuck this one up – like I did at Monte Rose a couple years before. 3. With a media pass for Electric Cable Car I need and want to report on everything. In the end I focused on my family, and on my race and let the media coverage take a back seat. I really wanted to report on more stuff, but instead of holing myself up into a hotel room for the entire week to feverishly blog and podcast I spend every moment out on the town, meeting people, seeing everything, experiencing it all and eating lots of cheese. It was the right decision and I am not the only one who struggled with trying to find the right balance between being media and athlete/fan. Dylan Bowman shared his conundrum on the Second Nature podcast. So how does one report on this UTMB week that has grown into massive scale and increasingly is becoming too big to touch? Doug Mayer kicks off the week with an assessment of the state of things and as the main show unfolds, the sideshow during the week is a small section added to the official UTMB media kit describing ‘ambush marketing’ – what it entails and how a brand, that’s not an official sponsor, partakes – or rather not – in the festivities in and around Chamonix. But, in the end it’s the performances on the trails we remember and above all of them the non-elite, non-sponsored Hoka employee Vincent Bouillard who figures out the puzzle on a hot year where lots and lots of pros are DNF’ing and he arrives under the famous blue arch in incredible fast 19:54:23. There’s so much to say about our sport where a non-sponsored athlete can still win the biggest race of the year. The media didn’t know how to report on it and is still under-valuing this achievement in my opinions as I doubt Vincent’s run this year will top anyone’s performance of the year lists. This is not the last word on the UTMB Finals as the reporting continues in September.
This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review. I’ll be dropping the September edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit RE:RUN.
Tim Tollefson is going big at Mammoth Trailfest. Coming in 2025 is ‘The Mammoth‘ – a 200 mile race exploring the Eastern Sierra and starting and finishing in Mammoth Lakes in September. No exact dates yet and no prices set yet, permits are still pending for this event, but there’s a film showcasing Sally McRae exploring and running the route this year.
As Salomon takes their Golden Trail Series, and associated sponsorship dollars elsewhere, Tim takes Mammoth Trail Fest and makes it even bigger. It’ll be fascinating to see how this ultra long endurance event fits into Mammoth Trailfest’s short distance programming and how this will all pan out during the race week(end). This is the first major US event that’s trying to make this work. Broken Arrow has stayed short and “in the resort” with their events. Cocodona started with the really big distance and is now adding shorter events. Will this lead to an eventual 100M distance at Trailfest? And is this Tim’s play to get the event on the UTMB radar?
Registration for all races expect the new 200 miler will open on January 21, 2025.
I’ve been tracking entry fees for some of the biggest and most well-know trail races around the world and the common complaint is that across the board we’re approaching fast the $500 mark. Well, here’s one that’s doesn’t even bother with $500 and immediately jumps to $600, cause, why not. The Grand to Grand Ultra is a brand new 115 mile race in Utah’s desert. The website advertisers the pricing at $495 for early bird pricing and $525 (before UltraSignup fees and Utah sales tax) which brings the early bird price to $575.22 and regular pricing to $609.87. You get an extra 15 miles, it’s not just a 100 mile event, but a 115 mile, so maybe if you strictly compare this to other events on a dollar per mile ($525 divided by 115 miles equals to $4.56) this checks out, but still, for a first year event this is an eye-popping amount of money.
For the year end UTMB shares some numbers, figures and stories highlighting their 2024 season. Here are a few that stuck out to me:
134,393 runners, 29% women (increase from 25% last year)
An increase is something to celebrate, yes, but this is still a far cry from proper gender parity and will need a lot more work to be done.
234, 944 running stones collected
If 134,393 runners collected 234, 944 stones that would mean 1.75 stones on average per race per runner. I bet there are a few other interesting stats one could derive from these numbers.
2,024 events with UTMB Index
This number, I believe is WAY down. When I checked this last (and that’s been over 2 years ago by now) I counted around 5,000 events on that list. Given the fact that UTMB made the inclusion in their index free and – even simpler – than the ITRA point system, this makes me think that either race directors aren’t interested in feeding their results into the UTMB system, or that even the simplest system is just another step that race directors in the end don’t want to be bothered with. But in either case, it’s the runners who would have to force the issue, if they care about getting their Index at independent races they’d ask for it and RDs would deliver that for them. I believe offering the UTMB Index to independent races was a genius idea by UTMB, but it’s almost too clever – currently, with the World Series still so new – most runners want stones and are willing to race UTMB events. Racing non-stone races, just for the Index isn’t high on people’s minds so far.
UTMBs’ social media team also expanded on these numbers with some humorous “wrapped-style” posts on Instagram. My favorite:
43,785 ‘One last piece of cheese before getting back to the race.’ were said by runners on swiss checkpoints. For 68% of them, it wasn’t actually the last one…
That was 100% me in Trient at OCC this year.
The World Mountain Running Association announced their 2025 Mountain Running World Cup schedule, which is different from the World Mountain and TrailRunning Championships, which is organized by the same body.
- May 04 – Zmeu X-Fest (ROM)
- May 24 – Vertical Nasego (ITA)
- May 25 – Trofeo Nasego (ITA)
- June 15 – Tatra Fest (POL)
- June 20 – Broken Arrow Uphill (USA)
- June 22 – Broken Arrow Skyrace (USA)
- July 05 – Chongli World Cup Uphill (CHN)
- July 06 – Chongli World Cup Classic (CHN)\
- July 19 – Vauban Mountain Trail Uphill (FRA)
- July 20 – Vauban Mountain Trail (FRA)\
- July 26 – Giir di Mont Uphill (ITA)
- July 27 – Giir di Mont (ITA)
- August 09 – Sierre-Zinal (SUI)
- August 23 – World Cup Final Velika Planina (SLO)
- August 24 – World Cup Final Smarna Gora (SLO)
Last year all these seemingly convoluted and conflicting schedules among all the different organizations prompted me to build the Global Trail Race Calendar. I have not updated it, and am thinking on how to amend it for 2025. IF you only care about one race series – as an elite athlete for example – I think these calendars all make sense. You just follow the organization you care about – done. But if you’re media, for example, and want to understand what is happening on any given week in the world of trail and mountain running it gets very busy and difficult to follow. I’ll stew on this over the next few weeks and will see what I come up with – stay tuned.
Friend of Singletrack Troy Meadows of the ‘Midpacker Pod‘ starts a newsletter aptly titled ‘Midpacker Musings‘. In his first posts he shares some thoughts about the outcomes of the two big race lotteries happening on the same Saturday in early December, Western States and Hardrock:
Okay, now that the dust has settled and the vast majority of us have not had our names pulled, I wanted to discuss the highs and lows of the lottery grind.
Just another trail runner disappointed with the outcome of the lotteries yet again and trying to find solace in the process. Here’s to a planning a 2025 around finding qualifiers that aren’t sold out yet. This is post one of his newsletter and Troy asks:
Let me know what you think. The good and the bad: I have thick skin, and I am all about improvement.
My suggestion to everyone: subscribe and read a few editions before passing judgement.
I’ve heard some folks complaining about The North Face’s collabs, especially the latest one with SKIMS. The gist of the complaint is that collaborating with fashion brands allows them to sort of “greenwash” their image, while it dilute The North Face’s claim to care about the environment. Fine, there’s probably something to that. All clothing makers have this challenge to grapple with.
But I’m here to tell you I love all these collabs. Maybe I’m being flippant, maybe I’m just looking for a bit of joy in my life. But look at this one, just released with Bialetti, the moka maker:
The North Face is synonymous with exploration. Bialetti is a coffee-making institution. Together, we’ve combined to create a limited-edition coffee set for explorers. Built to be taken on the road or the trail, each element is portable so you can enjoy fine Italian coffee wherever your expedition takes you.
It’s perfect, it’s beautiful, it brings me so much joy. If this is going to be released in the US I will hit the buy button so fast.
This article is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review.
This was July 2024 in our world of trail running and mountain culture.
It’s full on summer now and before the attention of the trail world descends onto the tiny town of Silverton high up in Colorado on Singletrack I chat with Hannes Namberger and Rosanna Buchauer after their respective wins at Lavaredo late June. Both are German and have been on the podcast before, both run for Dynafit, and both use this event as their tune up race before UTMB. I mention these two amazing athletes because I feel they, and others like them often get lost in the list of “best athletes of the year”. Our sport is still somewhat young and our sport reporting even younger. And while any global sport has a hard time truly capturing athletes, and their achievements from all corners of the world. Currently, if you don’t speak English as your primary language and if you don’t show up on the US centric racing circuit you somewhat don’t exist. This is not a complaint. This is what it is and I don’t know how or even it’s solvable. In trail running we still – and thank god for that – have so much diversity in races, locations, and athletes from all over the world, that it’s impossible for anyone reporting on it to fully have a grasp on all the happenings.
The reason why I’m bringing up this topic right now is not just because at the end of June Western States sucks all the air out of the room and other races happening the same weekend barely make the headlines1, but also in July we’re heading to Silverton to follow a tiny race, in a tiny town on really big mountains that has incredibly outsized media attention and mind share in the global trail community.
This year I am heading to Colorado to experience it all for myself. I’ll be emceeing the Trail Running Film Festival, in Ouray as part of Camp Hardrock, where we’ll be premiering Salomon’s new film ‘A Team Sport’ which shares the story of Courtney Dauwalter’s incredible 2023. After the film I get to interview the filmmakers Alexis Berg, Julien Raison and Oliver Denton. Massive highlight for myself. After the screening I stay a few more days in town to experience Hardrock, connect with some incredible people and try to document a run around these massive mountains. Zach Miller’s appendix takes up most of the media attention, but Ludovic Pommeret’s win (and course record (taking the crown from no other than Kilian Jornet), at age 49 makes this performance one of the most inspiring of the year. (And yes, I just mentioned ‘biases in reporting’ above. Of course, getting up at 3:30am, stumbling onto the dusty roads of tiny Silverton in the middle of the night and watching Ludo’s headlamp emerge in the distance is an experience I will never forget.)
For Hardrock fans do not miss on the Singletrack episode with Dale Garland, long time run director and heart and soul of this event.
Alright, enough about Hardrock, there is other stuff going on in the world this month. For one, Jamil Coury purchases American’s only print magazine focused on ultra and trail running “Ultrarunning Magazine”. He also gets the fantastic domain ultrarunning.com with it. This media property has a long history in the sport, is much beloved, and is also way overdue for a brand refresh to match today’s time and media landscape. This development prompts me to name Jamil the ‘most powerful person in trail running’, which writing this today in December still holds up, I feel. Case in point: Jamil’s Media Outpost is operating the livestream for Hardrock and Jamil himself is out there running the race. Jamil also gets picked in the two big American lotteries for 2025 – Western States and Hardrock. Busy guy.
This post is part of Electric Cable Car’s RE:RUN 2024 – The Year in Review. I’ll be dropping the August edition in the coming days. To catch up on all of them visit RE:RUN.
Or maybe it’s round three already, I can’t keep track of this. But yesterday, on the same day Michelino Sunseri had his initial court date (which didn’t go well I am told) the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed a lawsuit on behalf of nature and sports photographers and filmmakers Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith, who had planned on capturing Michelino’s attempt on camera for The North Face (and other sponsors):
Under federal law, the tourist and the reporter are doing nothing wrong. But the documentarian could face heavy fines — even jail time.
That’s why the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression today filed a lawsuit on behalf of nature and sports photographers and filmmakers Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith. FIRE’s suit aims to overturn the National Park Service’s onerous, arbitrary, and unconstitutional permit-and-fee scheme that charges Americans for the right to film in public spaces.
You can read the full lawsuit in all its legalize here. I did, it’s surprisingly readable, very informative, and yet, I still have tons more questions than answers.
Today, December 19th is the first day for runners to register for the UTMB Finals in Chamonix for 2025. The servers processing the pre-registration for the lottery for UTMB, CCC, OCC, and other events during the week completely melted down:
This year again, even more of you are eager to participate in our events, and we are deeply moved by your support. Due to this overwhelming excitement, our websites experienced technical issues during the opening of registrations today at 11 a.m.
UTMB made some adjustments, staggered the times for registration for the various events:
Pre-registrations for the UTMB World Series Finals will reopen tomorrow (20.12) at 11 a.m. (CET). We remind you that you have until January 9 to finalize your pre-registration, with equal chances whether you register on the first or the last day.
- Registrations for the TDS will reopen today at 2 p.m.
- Registrations for the MCC open at 3:00 PM. We remind you that the registration priority is 24 hours reserved for residents of the 21 municipalities organizing the HOKA UTMB Mont-Blanc. Tomorrow at 3:00 PM, it will open for residents of neighboring regions: Valais, Aosta Valley, Savoie, and Haute-Savoie.
- Registrations for the ETC and YCC will reopen today at 4 p.m.
I bet these last few hours of what was supposed to be the first hours UTMB registration were quite stressful at the UTMB headquarters in Chamonix/Annecy. But this happens to the best, some even allow this to happen as a marketing strategy – hello Nintendo, Meta.
Tomorrow is another day, and then there’s another… you got until January 9th to put your running stones to good use. Pre-registering early doesn’t get you higher up in the lottery.
Post race email just went out to all participants. But I wanted to add a couple things here:
Saturnalia is a small community event, a 10K starting at a middle school track and running along the trails of Squaxin Park in Olympia. We had a total of 63 finishers this year, the third year we’ve been doing the race.
Making trail running accessible to all is a huge focus and passion of Rock Candy Running, and I think we deliver here.
PS: This year for the first time we fully utilized the gym at the school… the weather was nasty with wind gusts up to 45mph. Having a finisher arch inside felt a bit weird at first… but man, let me tell you my volunteers were happy about this setup.
Check out of photos of the event by the amazing Cayman Waughtel.
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