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Welcome to Behind the Bib: Louisville Trail Races, an episode of UltraSignup’s video series that brings you behind the bib of races around the country.

For the past five years, UltraSignup has closed out the year with the Keep Trail Running Weird Awards. Unlike traditional end-of-year running awards, these honors aren’t about the fastest finishers or the most innovative brands. They exist to celebrate the trail running community itself. These are the friends who got us into trail running in…

The new year rewards the bold ones — the runners who commit to the goal knowing that the perfect training week, the perfect weather, and the perfect moment may never arrive. It's time to do it anyways. Let’s start 2026 strong — together.

We consider the Keep Trail Running Weird awards a “podium finish” for the everyday runner, honoring the community, quirkiness, and authenticity of our sport. It’s the fifth year of these awards, and we consider it a privilege to celebrate with everyone once again. The Keep Trail Running Weird awards recognize five award categories that are…

Here are four of the best books about trail running published in 2025, plus a few more good ones to put on your reading list this winter—or your holiday gift list this week!

UltraSignup's annual awards to celebrate the run community. Consider it a podium finish for every runner.

As a partner of the Western States Endurance Run, UltraSignup has a single race entry available to grant to a runner of our choosing. In 2025, that runner was Nick Bassett, who set the record as the oldest finisher at Western States when he completed the event in 2018 at the age of 73. In…

Stage races are ultramarathons divided into multiple days, part endurance challenge, part adventure, and part traveling community. Instead of running one continuous distance, athletes tackle a set course in stages, lining up each morning to run a new leg of the journey.

Ready for the best holiday season of all? Registration Season. 🎁 December is about to drop a ton of new 2026 races — and some of these will go faster than hot cocoa at an aid station on a cold morning. December 1 kicks off a whole month of “OMG that race is finally open!”…

Between November and the end of February, thousands of trail races open registration. Many of them will sell out before you finish your next long run. Scope them out, make your picks, mark your calendar, hit register. The 2026 version of you is already stoked you signed up early.