Gorge is Big

It’s Daybreak & Freetrail’s big Gorge Waterfalls weekend here in the PNW. The weather looks amazing – and the numbers look even greater.

• For the 100K 411 are signed up to race.
• For the 50K 400 are signed up to race.
• For the 30K 440 are signed up to race.

With 1,251 total racers, does that make it the largest event in the PNW? I think so.

Here’s the gender breakdown:

• 100K: Total racers: 411, Men: 301 (73%), Women: 106 (26%), Nonbinary: 4 (~1%)
• 50K: Total racers: 400, Men: 231 (58%), Women: 168 (42%), Nonbinary: 1 (~0%)
• 30K: Total racers: 440, Men: 193 (44%), Women: 244 (55%), Nonbinary: 3 (~1%)

That’s a fantastic gender split overall with 518 (41%) at the starting line of the three events.

The forecast looks great (no rain and into the 70’s) – much much better compared to last year, and that combined with an adjusted and relaxed cutoff time should results in a much lower DNF rate. (Last year’s 100K had only a 65% finisher rate and the 50K a 74%).

The events will be live-streamed on Youtube on the Mountain Outpost channel.

The races are still not listed on the UTMB Index calendar? If a race director promotes their events as offering UTMB index “points”, but doesn’t renew the event on the UTMB website, can they still upload the results after the event has concluded? What happens if a runner hopes to get this run counted for the Index and this isn’t possible?

As DBO would say: #LFGorge