“To Overcome The Mountain We Must Overcome Ourselves” Come ready my friends, this mountain throws everything it has at trail and ultra runners alike, challenging you from start to finish at an average elevation over 10,600′. You’ll run amongst these “beautifully difficult” mountains and hills lining the western slope of …
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“To Overcome The Mountain We Must Overcome Ourselves”
Come ready my friends, this mountain throws everything it has at trail and ultra runners alike, challenging you from start to finish at an average elevation over 10,600′. You’ll run amongst these “beautifully difficult” mountains and hills lining the western slope of the South Park Valley. This is the race where you carry #Adversity on your back, if you can handle the burden, you can win the day! Runners looking for a wilderness experience, stunning views, opportunities for technical terrain mixed with remote forest service roads… will fall in love with this course. The Sheep Mountain 50 mile and 50k promises to provide runners with an unforgettable experience that celebrates the history, and rough and tumble nature of this mountain region. The Sheep Mountain Half Marathon is a wonderful introduction into trail running for those looking for a more mellow day. The course features flowing dirt county roads and USFS Fire Road (some of a little rocky).
COURSE
The course starts and finishes at the Town of Fairplay Beach in Fairplay, CO. The course takes runners southeast of Fairplay on a combination of forest service roads and singletrack trails. The course is a lollipop loop where the first and last 18 miles of the course are shared. The remaining 33 miles is comprised of one major loop over and around Sheep Mountain, Sheep Ridge and Round Hill. The western edge of the loop comes very close to the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Area, offering runners some of the most isolated Ultrarunning in our state.
50k Runners will turn left at their first trip to Brown’s Pass and follow the remainder of the 50 milers course from their second time to Brown’s Pass. The 50k course shares the same 18 miles to and from town with the remaining 13 miles being exclusively on Sheep Mountain.
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