Umstead 100

If you are registered for the race and did not receive the January newsletter for runners via email, please contact the RD

Congrats to everyone who was successful in last week’s registration process! The Second Chance Lottery is open for two more days. If you want a chance to run the 2025 race, you need to enter now.

Thanks to everyone who came to the cookout on Saturday. It was great to spend time with wonderful volunteers and runners!

And this phase of registration is full. If you didn’t get in via tonight’s process, remember that the second chance lottery opens on Saturday and stays open for a week

Registration is open. Reminder that new slots open every two minutes until the 265 applications are spoken for

Registration opens in less than an hour

Big week for us: Registration opens on Wednesday, September 11 at 8pm EDT Volunteer cookout at the park on Saturday, September 14 starting at 2pm

We are passing this request for study participants along from researchers at Va Tech in the hope that the research will ultimately be of benefit to the ultrarunning community

Blue skies and the banners have started going up at HQ. Race day is coming soon!

Text tracking is now available

Unfortunately, we do not have the runner-tracking texting service available yet. We have run into a regulatory snag and are still working on getting the texts set up. If/when we are able to get the texting system set up, we will post a link on our website. We apologize! ☹️

Bib numbers and parking assignments have been posted. We are excited to see everyone next week!

Patrick Lloyd talked with one of our race directors about all things Umstead 100, including the question: What should first-time Umstead runners expect? Give it a listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/car…

If you have been to the park recently, you may have noticed a lack of bridge on our normal race course. After contemplating adding a long-jump event to each lap, we instead have come up with an alternate course. Still eight 12.5 mile laps. Details on the website

We would love for all of our registered runners to start the race on April 6th. But, we know that life and injuries sometimes intervene. This is just a reminder that if you are going to withdraw from the race, the last day for a refund is January 31st. Website for details

The January runners letter was emailed two days ago. If you are registered for the race and didn’t receive it, check your Junk/Spam folder or contact the RDs

If you are traveling to the race, we strongly advise you to book your hotel now. Our cabins are currently booked. A music festival may be scheduled in Raleigh during race weekend. When that happened in 2023, rooms became scarce in the Triangle.

Registration is complete for the 2024 race. Congratulations to everyone who got in! Updated participant lists were posted today.

The Second Chance Lottery is going strong. You can enter until 6p on Saturday, 9/23. We fill our remaining entry slots and compile the waitlist from the SCL entries.

And that’s a wrap for tonight’s process. If you didn’t get in, please enter the second chance lottery. Not the time pressure of tonight and 60 more will be entered. Lottery opens Saturday at 6p EDT