‘Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB’

LIVE: This weekend (Apr 26-27, 2024) on our Global Race Series Calendar:

Americas Major (for the last year – next year the Major will be Kodiak), the ‘Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB’ is UTMB’s 6th race on the 2024 calendar, the second UTMB event of the season in the US and the 100M runners are already on the course.

I ran the 50K last year, got myself the double stones and that got me into OCC this year. These were my observations from running my first UTMB World Series event.

The course for the 100M and 100K has changed several times over the last few years and is becoming more and more a “Western States Lite” which feels a bit boring from the outside, but I don’t know the trail management realities on the ground so I won’t judge.

UTMB has made tons of improvements on their website, but the starting lists isn’t something they have fully gotten online ahead of the races yet. Freetrail is doing their Trailgating shows on Youtube and live tracking for the races can be found here. There will be another attempt (last year’s failed spectacularly) of live-streaming the finish of the 100M and the 100K and 50K races.

Find more trail races on ECC’s Global Race Series Calendar.