Bigfoot 200
2019 Bigfoot 200. Race report: What a weird, fun, painful, amazing experience. 206 miles and 42,000 ft of elevation gain, over ~58 continuous hours running ultra and beyond through the Cascade Mountains... I’ve been trying to get back into more competitive running this year, and wanted one big target race in late summer or fall, so I’d have something to work towards in 2019 as I got back into shape. One at a time, I applied for 5 different, relatively popular northwestern / mountain-area 100-mile races. Because of often remote locations and lack of infrastructure, the bigger trail ultras have to impose caps on field size (~100-400 runners, as opposed to popular road marathons in big cities that can accept 20,000+), so registration is often some variety of lottery process for the higher-demand ultras. And one-by-one, I had to cross all 5 off my list (mostly lotto rejections). The 6th race I considered was not a 100-miler, but the Destination Trail Bigfoot 200 - miler in WA