The following release was provided by Steve Taylor and features details about the upcoming 2024 Collegiate Mountain Running National Championships. RICHMOND, VA – The Collegiate Running Association has announced the 2024 Collegiate Mountain Running National Championships will take place on July 13 at the Snowbird Race, hosted by the Cirque Series in Snowbird, Utah. For the… Read more »
On Friday, February 16, 49 runners will toe the line for the 2024 USATF 100 Mile National Championships at Cornerstone Park in Henderson, NV. The national championships will be part of the Jackpot Ultrarunning Festival, which will encompass most of the President’s Day weekend. The national championship will start at 8 AM Friday morning and continue… Read more »
The USATF Mountain Ultra Trail championships calendar is set for 2024. Eleven events will be staged featuring distances from 10 kilometers to 100 miles as well as 24 hours, on road, trail, and mountain terrain. Nine states – Nevada, New York, New Hampshire, California, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, Wisconsin – will host a championship with… Read more »
The following release was provided by Steve Taylor and features details about the upcoming 2024 USATF Cross Country Championships. Featured photo from the 2007 USATF Cross Country Championships taken by Nancy Hobbs. RICHMOND, Va. – The excitement is building for the 2024 USA Track & Field National Cross Country Championships to be held in Richmond,… Read more »
The sun was shining and temperatures were in the upper 40s on Saturday, November 4, for the ten o’clock race start at the Moab Half Marathon in Moab, Utah, host of the 13th USATF Half Marathon Trail Running Championships. It was a record-setting day for both Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau and Bailey Kowalczyk who took the championship… Read more »
Written with photos by USATF MUT Council vice-chair Meghan Canfield. Above: Male Champion Kallin Carolus Khan. Heckscher State Park in East Islip/Long Island, New York, was the sight for the 2023 Heckscher State Park USATF 50k Road Championships. This would be the 17th time that the Greater Long Island Running Club and race director Carl… Read more »
Written by USATF MUT Council vice-chair Meghan Canfield. Photo: Men’s USATF 100 Mile Road Champion, Jonas Backstrom. Henderson, Nevada’s Cornerstone Park was the sight for the 2023 Jackpot USATF 100 Mile Road Championships. Under the new race ownership, Aravaipa, out of Phoenix, Arizona, the race began at 8:00 AM under clear, crisp conditions. The field… Read more »
Written by USATF MUT Council vice-chair Meghan Canfield. Greater Long Island Running Club (GLIRC) is hosting the Heckscher State Park USATF Road 50k Championship, in East Islip, on Long Island, New York. A 5-kilometer loop run 10 times will provide spectators and racers alike to see runners of all speeds multiple times without leaving their… Read more »
The 2022 USATF Trail Marathon Championships were held November 5, in the desert canyons of Moab, UT at the Moab Trail Marathon. Both the men’s and women’s defending champions Adam Peterman and Allie McLaughlin were in Thailand winning World Championship gold medals thus were not on the startline. In addition to their individual world championship… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship liaison Lin Gentling. Photos: Kelly Randolph. On a cool, overcast, and misting morning the 2022 trail half marathon national championships were held just outside of Cable, WI on the American Birkebeiner ski and mountain bike courses. The rain overnight had made for slick and greasy conditions, but that did not deter… Read more »
The USATF Half Marathon Trail Running Championships will be held in Cable, WI, on Saturday, September 24, at the Birkie Trail Running Festival. Birkie also hosted this national championship in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021. This year’s course will start and finish at the American Birkebeiner Trailhead located on McNaught Road in Cable, WI. The… Read more »
Guest interview by U.S. Junior Mountain Running Team leader Paul Kirsch. Paul is also founder of the Loon Mountain Race and lives in Madison, New Hampshire. Above photo: Mike Scott. Tabor (Scholl) Hemming grew up running, as she describes in her bio at her website, “on dirt roads and cow trails.” In high school she… Read more »
Founded in 2006 as a qualifier for the U.S. Mountain Running Team, the Loon Mountain Race will once again play host to the top American uphill runners at the inaugural USATF Vertical Mountain Running Championships this Sunday, July 10, in Lincoln, New Hampshire. This new national championship format was created in response to the addition… Read more »
After last year’s event was hosted by the Gnar Gnar on Mt Hood in Oregon, the USATF Mountain Running Championship returned to the “Beast Coast” to be hosted by the Whiteface Mountain Races in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Perfect racing weather set the scene under a blue sky, with low wind and… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship liaison Lin Gentling. Photos courtesy of Mad City Ultras and Ann Heaslett. The Upper Midwest is known for its windy conditions in the spring, but nothing compared with the gales that the 100K road national championships runners fought at the Mad City Ultras on Saturday, April 23. Although this is a… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship liaison Lin Gentling. Fourteen years is a long time to have hosted the USATF 100K Road Championships, but this is the sustaining record that Mad City Ultras race director, Timo Yanacheck, holds for this event. He knows what he is doing and does it well. It’s almost go time for the… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship liaison Meghan Canfield. Photos: Meghan Canfield. This past Sunday, February 27, forty one hardy USATF members lined up for the USATF 50 km Road Championships in Heckscher State Park on Long Island, New York, hosted by the Greater Long Island Running Club (GLIRC). Temperatures were in the 30s with a wind… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship Liaison Meghan Canfield. Sunday, February 27, will be the USATF Road 50k National Championships held at Heckscher Park on Long Island, New York. Winners who run a qualifying standard for the National 50k Team will be awarded an automatic spot for the 2023 IAU 50 Kilometer (Road) World Championships in Port… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship Liaison Meghan Canfield. Photos by KEVLV Photography. Camille Herron and Arlen Glick win 2022 USATF 100 Mile Road National Championships. Herron Sets 100 Mile Worlds Best*. A star-studded lineup toed the line at Jackpot Ultra Running Festival’s 100-mile USATF National Championship, which was held Friday February 18th, at Cornerstone Park, Henderson,… Read more »
Written by USATF Championship liaison Meghan Canfield. ATRA is a USA Track & Field member and media partner for its Mountain, Ultra and Trail running programs. This Friday, February 18th marks the USATF 100 Mile Road Championships, in Henderson, Nevada. Hosted by Beyond Limits Racing, it is the 9th running of the Jackpot Ultra Running… Read more »
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