Suffer Better Fall Trail Run

We are so stoked to once again get to invite you all to come run with us at Staunton State Park, off of Highway 285 near Conifer. We are even more stoked to be able to – finally – add an ultra to our event offerings, a 50K this year, in addition to our 25K race. Whichever distance you choose, rest assured you will be running on some of CO’s best trails – lovely, flowing, and runnable singletrack – with some decent vert thrown in to keep you honest.

Start Time: Racers in the 50K will start at 7:30 am, with the 25K runners taking off at 8 am. Both races start from the Mason Creek parking lot.

We are a bottle-free event, so please bring your own bottles. We’ll have both water and hydration drink at our several aid stations, so you can fill up along the way.

Volunteers at the aid station can assist you as needed on the hydration front, and ensure you get the other food you need.

Aid Stations: We’ll have 3, a couple of which you’ll hit 2X: One at the intersection of Marmot Passage, Borderline and Staunton Ranch Trails, one at the Elk Falls Pond and one at the intersection of Staunton Ranch and Scout Line Trails.

Like last year, this year’s events are both crazy fun and challenging trail races, and a major part of our effort to raise awareness and funds to preserve and protect our precious public lands. We value these special outdoor places and believe strongly that as outdoor athletes we have an obligation to ensure their protection. We encourage each of our runners to become fundraisers themselves and we have a special award for the runner who has raised the most $ by race day. Runners have the ability to raise funds themselves for Conservation CO and/or Protect Our Winters.

A note about distances: We are using the distances laid out by the park, but you should know that we’ve done each of these routes multiple times, using a variety of standard measuring tools and apps (Suunto, Apple, Strava) and we have yet to record the same distance twice! So, for the record, the stated distances are effectively 25K-ish and 50K-ish.

The 50K course: 30-31 miles, 4915′ of vert.
The 25K course: 15.3 miles, 2264″ elevation gain (and loss!)