By Mathias Eichler

One last hurrah before the end of the year. Runners, get ready for a fun and festive holiday 10K trail race at Squaxin Park in Olympia, WA on December 14.

One last hurrah before the end of the year. Runners, get ready for a fun and festive holiday 10K trail races at Squaxin Park in Olympia, WA on December 14.

WS 2024 Golden Tickets Announced

28 May 2023

The events to race for a chance for Golden Tickets to Western States in 2024 are as followed:

CCC 100K France, Italy, Switzerland, September 2023
Grindstone 100K Virginia, September 2023
Nice Côte d’Azur 115K France, September 2023
Javelina Jundred 100M Arizona, October 2023
Doi Inthanon Thailand 100M Thailand, December 2023
Black Canyon 100K, Arizona, February 2024
The Canyons 100K, California, April 2024

Several notable changes compared to last year. There’s now a race on the East Coast: Grindstone. CCC is now a Golden Ticket race, which is new and I believe for the first time, maybe? The other thing of note is that these events are now all UTBM and Aravaipa events, which in itself is quite interesting.

Back in 2015 (the first time Web Archive has the page listed) the Golden Ticket events were:

Bandera 100k, 1/9/16
Sean O’Brien 100k, 2/6/16
Black Canyon 100k, 2/13/16
Georgia Death Race 68m 3/19/16
Gorge Waterfalls 100k, 4/2/16
Lake Sonoma 50 miler, 4/9/16

A lot has changed since then, hasn’t it?