You may have noticed lately that some of your friends, people you follow, and many kinds of organizations are listing the names of the Native America tribes who used to live on the land where they are recreating; this is referred to as Native Lands attribution. It is a way to acknowledge and honor those […]
We are currently planning for the 2021 races to be normal. We are also planning for the season to be COVID-affected. We don’t know what will be going on with state requirements/guidelines, permits, capacities, and the pandemic next year. It is our hope and goal to put on all of our usual races. The 2021 […]
We all want to get back to having in-person races as soon as possible. That “as possible” is what we are spending an inordinate amount of time considering. As race directors, there are many safety factors that we weigh when deciding if a race can go on during this COVID pandemic (which is still going […]
Welp. Sigh. We write this on Friday May 8th, the day after Oregon’s Governor announced the extension of a ban of sporting events and of gatherings of 25 or more people through September. All of our Spring races were already cancelled or postponed to late summer/fall due to the COVID19 pandemic and now it is […]
Cue Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborne. You may have heard that song at one of our start lines so hopefully that’ll bring a smile to your face. Times are definitely crazy right now and we know everyone is just trying to get through this crisis. It’s hard to keep a hopeful outlook when things you’ve […]
Wood You Rather race is a new kind of trail run from Go Beyond Racing. It a checkpoint run, where you decide, by using a map, where you’ll go to get to as many checkpoints as you can. There is a specified amount of time available to find the checkpoints and get back to the […]
For the fifth year, we have made all of our races that we can be UTMB (Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc) qualifiers. This involves having the ITRA (International Trail Running Association) evaluate each course and UTMB determining a point value based on that evaluation. Each of the UTMB races has a number of points you have to […]
Lotteries can make it hard to plan races with friends. What if you get in and they don’t? Our solution to this is our Friend Refund. We’ve offered this for both the Mt Hood 50-mile and Mountain Lakes 100 ever since they went to lottery. Our Friend Refund gives you an out if you had […]