The following article was written by Paul Kirsch and features the International U18 Mountain Running Cup application process and reflections from the 2023 U.S. Team. Applications are still open for the U.S. team that will compete on June 22, at the 17th International U18 Mountain Running Cup in Montaña Palentina, Spain. This year’s race will… Read more »
The following release featuring the U.S. Snowshoe Team is published with permission from Mark Elmore, US Snowshoe Association. Photos provided by Team USSSA. Picos de Europa Mountains | Fuente de’, Spain – Athletes from Spain, the USA, Italy, France, Great Britain, Argentina, India, Canada, and Sweden recently attended the World Snowshoe Federation World Snowshoe Championships at Fuente… Read more »
The following release featuring the U.S. Snowshoe Team is published with permission from Mark Elmore, US Snowshoe Association. Team USA Men Seven-time US men’s national snowshoe champion Eric Hartmark of Duluth, MN, will lead a talented and deep men’s squad to the 2024 WSSF World Snowshoe Championships to be held March 1-3 in the Picos… Read more »
Lessons in flight booking Maria Dalzot’s race of her life came at a time when she completely didn’t expect it. Dalzot, a varsity member of an NCAA Division I Championship fourth place cross country team, top-ten finisher at Italy’s prestigious Lavaredo 80K, member of four US mountain running teams, winner of the 2014 National Trail… Read more »
After the 2022 event in Germany, the next 100K World Championship will be held on December 7, 2024, in Bengaluru, India. U.S. Team qualifying criteria are listed below. The biennial 100 Kilometer World Championship race is the one international venue at which USA Track & Field (USATF) has fielded an ultra-distance team for over two… Read more »
Meghan Canfield provided the following report from the 2023 IAU 50K World Championships. Canfield was a team staff member along with Lin Gentling. The pair traveled to India to support Team USA’s 12 athletes. Hyderabad, India, was the site for the 2023 IAU 50K World Championships, on Sunday, November 5. India was an interesting and… Read more »
The following article was written by Jason Bryant, leader Team USA for the 2023 NACAC Mountain and Trail Running Championships. Photos also provided by Bryant. The NACAC Mountain and Trail Running Championships took place Saturday, September 16, 2023, at Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park located near Swift Current, Canada hosted by Athletics Canada and Prairie Sky… Read more »
Team USA staff member and ATRA social media director Andy Wacker was on site at Challenge Stellina in Susa, Italy on August 27, 2023, and provided this report from the event. Rain started to fall as athletes warmed up for the 35th edition of Challenge Stellina, a storied mountain race through the Alps in Susa,… Read more »
The 2023 National High School Trail Championships (NHSTC) lived up to its name headlining a star-studded field on Saturday, July 29, including the six members of Team USA who accumulated a team gold, a team silver, and two individual silver medals earlier this summer at the 2023 WMRA International U18 Mountain Running Cup in Annecy,… Read more »
The NACAC Mountain and Trail Running Championships will take place on Saturday, September 16, 2023, in Saskatchewan, Canada. This will be the 17th edition of the Mountain event and the first time for a Trail event. Eleven athletes and one staff member will represent Team USA at the competition. The championships will be held in… Read more »
The 35th edition of Challenge Stellina, a 14.3K uphill race with 1500 meters of climb, will take place Sunday, August 27, 2023, in Susa, Italy, and Team USA will be on the start line. Four athletes, two men and two women, along with one staffer, will travel to Italy to represent the United States. For… Read more »
Press release from the World Mountain Running Association from Wednesday, June 7, the first day of a four-day competition at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships. The competition on day one set the bar high, with an uphill event that it will be hard to top. Today, at 1pm CET the World Mountain and… Read more »
Grayson Murphy and Joseph Gray earn USATF Vertical Mountain Running Championship Titles Team USA – Vertical Mountain – is finalized for Austria At today’s — Saturday, April 29 — USATF Vertical Mountain Running Championships, Grayson Murphy and Joseph Gray earned titles for their respective wins in the USATF Championships division. The Sunapee Scramble hosted the… Read more »
The 34th edition of Challenge Stellina, a 14.3K uphill race with 1500 meters of climb, will take place Sunday, August 27, 2023, in Susa, Italy. For 2023, the race will host for the second consecutive year, an international competition for athletics federations from countries that fought on the side of the allies in World War… Read more »
The 2021 Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, held this past weekend, drew one of the most competitive fields of elite trail runners since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Among the 315 starters were thirteen Team USA athletes who have represented the United States in Mountain, Ultra or Trail (MUT) World… Read more »
[May 25, 2021 UPDATE: The Gnar Gnar race has announced the addition of $5000 in total prize money for the USATF Mountain Running Championships. Prize money distribution details can be found on the race website.] On February 18, the USATF Mountain Ultra Trail council unanimously approved the Gnar Gnar race to host the 2021 USATF… Read more »
The International Association of Ultrarunners has announced that the 2023 IAU World 24 Hour Championship will be held in Chinese Taipei on December 2-3, 2023. The United States 24 Hour National Team will compete in the 2023 International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) 24 Hour World Championship under the patronage of World Athletics on December 2-3,… Read more »
The International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU), will stage the Virtual Global Solidarity Run, an event pitting athletes from national federations against one another as they run a 6-hour virtual challenge later this month. In their call to action for this event, the IAU stated, “Athletes need to have some motivation to train and compete during… Read more »
[Editor’s Note: Updated with results from both races race. Scroll down for info on long distance race] Short Distance Race – Friday Today (Friday, November 15) the World Mountain Running Championships kick off in Villa La Angostura, Argentina with the short distance 14 km (750 meters of ascent & descent) race for senior athletes and… Read more »
The 15th annual North American, Central American & Caribbean (NACAC) Mountain Running Championships will held in conjunction with the Loon Mountain Race on July 8, 2018 in Lincoln, NH. This event will also serve as the 2018 US Mountain Running Team selection race and USATF Mountain Running Championships. The uphill-style course will be 10.6 km… Read more »
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