We are so back. It’s a soft restart after a holiday week off with only a handful of runs across the last weekend of 2025 and the first weekend of 2026. We hope you had great holidays!
Across the Years – Peoria, Arizona
The six-day event featured over a dozen races, taking place from December 28, 2025, to January 3, 2026. Everything was run on a 1.42-mile loop.
Sierra DeGroff was the women’s and overall six-hour winner with 43.7 miles. Women took the first four overall finish spots, and Andrea Mucchietto was the first man with 36.6 miles in fifth place overall.
Six-day world-record holder Megan Eckert was the women’s and overall 12-hour winner with 81.2 miles. Men’s winner Matt Heacock totaled 70.5 miles over the fixed time.
Michael Carson (right) and Benjamin Niebla (left) battled it out at the 2026 Across the Years Last Person Standing race to become the winner and assist. Photo: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Photography
Jennie Terflinger led the women’s 100-mile race in 27:17, and Rob Raguet-Schofield and Robert Mueller both went sub-16 for the men with 15:41 and 15:54, respectively, on the finish clock.
The 24-hour race also featured a woman at the top of the overall rankings. Aden-Shiloh Broyles led everyone with 121.3 miles, and Nicholas Steel was the first man with 105.8 miles.
Over 48 hours, Amy Mower ran 141.0 miles, and Cole Crosby won for the men with 224.3 miles. Crosby’s distance sits just outside the top-10 North American all-time list.
Married couple Melissa and Justin Montague won the six-day race with 406.3 and 481.1 miles, respectively.
In the last person standing race, Michael Carson won ahead of second-place assist Benjamin Niebla with 145 laps and 204.5 miles.
Ann Trason, a 12-time “UltraRunning Magazine” North American Ultrarunner of the Year, incredibly pushed a walker for 112.8 miles over the six days. She lives with the complications of rheumatoid arthritis, reportedly went to the event with the goal of covering 50 kilometers, and surpassed that by a lot!
The 12-time “UltraRunning Magazine” North American Runner of the Year Ann Trason covered 112.8 with a walker at the 2026 Across the Years Six Day race. Photo: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Photography
Additional Races and Runs
New Year’s One Day – San Jose, California
The 24-hour event was held on a 1.0-mile loop around Hellyer Park’s Cottonwood Lake. Ayako Murai led the women’s group and the overall race with 112.4 miles, and Daniel Chang was first for the men with 102.1 miles. Full results.
Tyler Andrews Treadmill Everesting World Record – Boulder, Colorado
Mountain athlete Tyler Andrews climbed 29,032 feet to match the elevation of Mount Everest in 27.75 miles in 8:17:09 at the La Sportiva store in Boulder, Colorado, on December 21. It was a new world record. Andrews will chase a Mount Everest fastest known time this spring from the mountain’s north side in Tibet, following several years of speed record attempts from the south Nepalese side.
Snowdrop Ultra – Missouri City, Texas
The 55-hour fixed-time race was contested on a flat 0.7-mile asphalt loop. Karen Ellis and Juan Acevedo won with 155.3 and 200.9 miles, respectively. Acevedo has won here every year since 2022. Full results.
Resolution Run 50k – Waco, Texas
Nancy Nichols won it for the women in 7:53, and David Gerada led the men in 5:35. Full results.
Nancy Nichols, the 2026 Resolution Run 50k women’s winner. Photo courtesy of the race.
David Gerada, the 2026 Resolution Run 50k men’s winner. Photo courtesy of the race.
Yankee Springs Winter Challenge 50k – Middleville, Michigan
Darcy Irvine and Jameson Kloeckner won the 15th-year race in 6:36 and 3:54. Full results.
Great Scorpion 50k – Meridian, Mississippi
Both Bethany Madson and Peter Kazery set new course records in 4:35 and 4:05. Full results.
Recover from the Holidays 50k – Huntsville, Alabama
The longtime Huntsville Track Club event had 84 finishers, led by Lisa Gates and Carson Miller in 4:45 and 3:38. Full results.
Frosty Fifty – Winston-Salem, North Carolina
At the Salem Lake Marina, Anna Buser and Chris Raulli won in 4:09 and 3:13. Despite being a few years away from the sport, Rauli ran two minutes faster than he did when finishing second at the USATF 50k road championships way back in 2018. Full results.
Lost Coast 55k – Whitethorn, California
The free and unsupported race was delayed 24 hours due to a litany of storm warnings in the area on Saturday, but Lanore Bergenske and Jazmen McGinnis tied as first women in 8:51, and Kevin Brightbill won for the men in 6:35.
The 2026 Lost Coast 55K winners (left to right): Kevin Brightbill, Lanore Bergenske, and Jazmen McGinnis (tied for first women). Photo: Kevin Brightbill
Call for Comments
New Year’s Eve road races are popular in Europe. Trail runners Jan Torrella (Spain) and Hannes Namberger (Germany) ran 15:11 at Spain’s Sant Silvestre de Berga 5k and 15:09 at Germany’s Aschauer Vorsilvesterlauf 5k, respectively. Namberger’s race was a few days before New Year’s Eve, but what other European trail runners took to the road to finish the year?
