Old School Ultras 2025

Ultra Running Magazine updates their Old School Ultras race calendar for 2025. Included are a few new additions since they launched their 2024 list last year:

Initially launched with these 10 in 2024:

• Hurt 100, Hawaii
• Mountain Mist 50K Trail Run, Alabama
• Chuckanut 50k, Washington
• Diez Vista 50K, British Columbia, Canada
• Strolling Jim 40 Mile Run, Tennessee
• Miwok 100K, California
• Cascade Crest 100 Mile, Washington
• Tamalpa Headlands 50K, California
• JFK 50 Mile, Maryland
• Pine Mt. Trail Run, Georgia

The newly added races for 2025 are:

• Crown King Scramble, Arizona
• Peterson Ridge Rumble, Oregon
• Ice Age Trail 50, Wisconsin
• Laurel Highlands Ultra, Pennsylvania
• Vermont 100 Endurance Run, Vermont
• Waldo 100K Trail Run, Oregon
• The Plan 100, Washington
• Le Grizz, Montana
• Man Against Horse Race, Arizona

A few observations:

• There’s no race in Colorado so far is on that list, which surprises me a bit.
• Three of the 19 are from Washington State, highlighting the long history of trail running in my home state.
• Twelve of them are from the western side of the country, showing how trail running grew out from Auburn, California.
• Some of these old school logos look truly amazing. Many look like they were created before the computer, some of them might have actually been. Most would look great on a race t-shirt.
• You can see the inspiration for these events were the first endurance races like Western States: These events often have the distance in the name, making the achievement to run that distance the main focus for participating.