You Don’t Know Jack
Carthage, MO
- 100K, 50 Miler, 75K, 50K, 25K, 15K
- Trail (Unpaved)
- Official race website
You Don’t Know Jack is a distance revival on the beautiful Ruby Jack Trail in Southwest Missouri. 25K loops on crushed limestone converted rails to trail. Low elevation gain and very easy running surface. Cool temperatures should produce personal bests. The race will start and finish in the parking lot … MORE
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Flat and fast ultra - multiple distances
You know, this is one peculiar little race. It has every distance you can think of from the 5K to the 100K, somehow they even made a 50 mile option. … MORE
You know, this is one peculiar little race. It has every distance you can think of from the 5K to the 100K, somehow they even made a 50 mile option. It’s all on the same stretch of the Ruby Jack Trail – a converted rails to trails that runs from Carthage MO to almost the KS border.
The trail is flat and fast, the scenery is repetitive, the volunteers and runners are enthusiastic. The 50K was a double out and back, and a friend of mine ran the 100K – a quad out and back. I’ll be honest, I signed up because I was in shape, and I wanted to knock out Missouri.
I don’t know if it was just the year I ran, but a lot of people dropped distances. The race administration let anyone that wanted drop down during the race — so no DNFs, just shorter distances. Worked out, I ended up being fourth overall for the 50k, and first lady. Only 2 people ran/completed the 100K.
The race director mailed me my finishers award – it looks like an award for showing cattle! and they were very nice to interact with. I will warn you, the timing company and many of the runners are overtly religious – I believe we started the race with a prayer – not good or bad – it just is, and if you’re not used to it, it can be a little weird.