Trail Race
CT’s Traprock 50 Set for April
I’ll never understand road runners; people who actually prefer the mind-numbing boredom of running on a flat, paved road. (Bleck!) I even know at least one sicko who almost always runs on a treadmill … even if it’s 70 degrees and sunny out. (Clearly, a psychopath.) Trail runners like variety. We like dirt under our […]
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Registration Set To Open For TARCtic Frozen Yeti
The Trail Animals Running Club’s ultra popular mid-winter race, the TARCtic Frozen Yeti, will open for registration on Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. The event features a 30-hour race and a 15-mile race that will take place overnight. The race is scheduled for February 3-4, 2024, with the following weekend being the scheduled backup […]
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Spring On The Trails Event Set For March 23
CTW Endurance has announced their Spring on the Trails event will take place March 23, 2024 in Lagrangeville, New York. This will be the fourth year of the event, which features a 12-hour, 6-hour, and 3-hour race. Participants will run on a 5K trail loop and attempt to complete as many loops as they can […]
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Squatchapple Trail Race Announced for March in NJ
Two months might be left in 2023, but the 2024 trail race calendar is already rapidly taking shape. The folks at Sassquad Trail Running recently opened registration for the Squatchapple Trail Race, which will be held March 9, 2024. The race will be held at South Mountain Reservation in West Orange, New Jersey, and will […]
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Welcome to Northeast Trail Running
One of the things I love about trail and ultra races is they teach you life skills … whether you want to learn them or not. If you’re like me, you probably have a game plan in mind as you start a race. A neat and tidy mental map of how things are going to […]
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Bruins Great Chara Takes on 50K Race in MA
It looks like Bruins great Zdeno Chara still has that competitive fire. The Stanley Cup-winning defenseman might be retired from professional hockey, but now he’s scratching that competitive itch by taking part in trail racing. Chara, who stands 6-feet, 9-inches tall, recently took on the Watuppa Trail 50K in Fall River, Massachusetts, finishing in just […]
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New Event: Plattekill Mountain Race in NY
There are two types of trail runners in this world: Those who when they hear the term “relentless vert” say “No way!” and run off in search of flat terrain; and then there are those lunatics who when they hear “relentless vert” say “Where do I sign up?” If you’re the kind of twisted individual […]
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The Hardest Trail and Ultra Races in the Northeast
The Northeast is home to trail and ultra races of all shapes and sizes, with varying distances, terrain and formats. Among these races, a few stand out as being particularly… sadistic. Races with such brutal conditions and demands that they seem more like a punishment than a fun time. While most people who hear about […]
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