Mt. Toby Ultra & 24K

Description:

This race is a fundraiser for Girls on the Run of Western Massachusetts, which inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. Isn’t that AWESOME?

This is a low-key race, where you’ll enjoy an early season run on some challenging trails and kick the season off with some fun! The course is hilly – it’s at Mt. Toby after all! Folks in the 24k race will get to the peak once and climb over 2700 feet total. The 50k folks will summit three times and climb about 7000 feet total.

The Course: The course is on rugged double track trails and some single track trails (course map here – it’s hard to follow, but you get the idea). Here is a .gpx file for the 24k course, and here is the .gpx file for the 50k course. You’ll have to scramble through a short cave along the course (we’ll provide the headlamps, further info on the cave below), and 50k runners will run (well, more likely hike) next to a beautiful waterfall. (*Note – the course has changed slightly from the 2019 version to include a few more fun single track sections!)