‘Desert RATS by UTMB’

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‘Desert RATS‘ is UTMB’ is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is the fourth race on the 2024 calendars, and the first for the year in the US. With less than two weeks before Canyons the event feels like it’s hiding a bit in the shadow of the American Major.

Celebrating their 20th anniversary, an unforgettable weekend awaits at Deserts RATS (Running Across the Sand) Trail Running Festival by UTMB. With 5 unique distances on offer from 100km to 10km, runners will find themselves traversing the famous Kokopelli Trail, climbing up ridgelines with endless views and running along the Colorado river or through the Western Rim via flowly singletrack at this famous celebration of trail running.

Desert RATS offers a 100K (3Stones), 50K (2 Stones), 20K (1 Stone) and 10K.

The event has an interesting acquisition story with Electric Cable Car breaking the news back in November of ’22 that UTMB had acquired the races in Colorado.

As of today there’s no start list I can find but I’ll be posting results after the weekend.

Live tracking for the races can be found here.

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