Is crew access allowed on the 100 Miler course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 100 Miler course. Crew only at crew access aid stations, within 1200 ft. No crew or pacer vehicles over 24 ft, no RVs or pull-behind campers. Rule breaks can mean disqualification and a ban from all future Run Bum Races. Hikers and day users have priority over crews at trailheads. Crew locations: Sassafras (shuttle, $25 per person), Camp Wesleyan, Camp Thornwell, Bad Creek.

Are drop bags allowed on the 100 Miler course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100 Miler course. One drop bag location (Sassafras), visited twice. Small bags only, labeled with location, name and bib number. Bring them to packet pickup. Bags are brought back to the finish Sunday; held until Monday afternoon, then disposed of or donated. Nothing is mailed.

Are pacers allowed on the 100 Miler course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100 Miler course. One pacer at a time. Where a 100 mile runner can pick up a pacer is still to be decided. Pacers must sign a waiver online, carry all mandatory gear, and have the GPX. They may not mule.

What is the cutoff time for the 100 Miler course?

The overall time limit for the 100 Miler course is 39 hours from the start. All cutoff times are for LEAVING the aid stations, not getting to them. Individual aid station cutoffs are still to come.

Ultras · US · NC

Appalachian 200 / 100

100 Miler · 100 Mile

Full

Entry has closed for this year. UltraSignup showed Sold out! on every entry on 2026-10-14. The race page says year one is limited to 150 runners in total.

Race dateMarch 10-14, 2027

Duration5 days

Start7:00am

Whenin 137 days

First held2027

Who's going to Appalachian 200 / 100?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Entry Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance The race

100 Mile

Climb The race

21,500 ft

Descent The race

20,500 ft

High point

not checked yet

Time limit The race

39:00:00

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes point to point · 10 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Year of this file not known.

Point to point from Jones Gap State Park, SC, to the Lower Whitewater Falls Trailhead near Salem, SC. It is the first 100 miles of the 200 mile course, step for step, on the Foothills, Palmetto and Bartram trails.

Rocky, rooty and technical trail for most of the race. No massive 2000 ft climbs until the last 50 miles. Not much flat. The last 40 or so miles are remote, with no good place to quit and little cell service. No water sources after Pinnacle Knob on the 200 course.

The race

What this one is

A point to point 200 and 100 mile race from Jones Gap State Park, SC, across the Foothills, Palmetto and Bartram trails. The 100 miler is the first 100 miles of the 200 miler. The 200 passes through South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia and finishes in Franklin, NC.

First edition is 2027. The race was planned about 7 years earlier, then delayed by covid, Hurricane Helene and the Table Rock fire.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: 150 ultrasignup.com

Registration: UltraSignup runbumtours.com

Qualifying: Finish an official 50k race (timed events excluded) within 450 days of the race date; may register first, proof required before race day. docs.google.com

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Appalachian 200 / 100 Thirty nine hours.

You are running it

You reach Camp Thornwell, mile 48, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 8 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are deciding

You find out Appalachian 200 / 100 is months of work away, not years, and you go and get the qualifier.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed: Yes docs.google.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes docs.google.com

Muling: Not allowed docs.google.com

Drop bags: Yes docs.google.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: Yes docs.google.com

Dogs: Not allowed docs.google.com

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew only at crew access aid stations, within 1200 ft. No crew or pacer vehicles over 24 ft, no RVs or pull-behind campers. Rule breaks can mean disqualification and a ban from all future Run Bum Races. Hikers and day users have priority over crews at trailheads. Crew locations: Sassafras (shuttle, $25 per person), Camp Wesleyan, Camp Thornwell, Bad Creek. docs.google.com

Pacer rules: One pacer at a time. Where a 100 mile runner can pick up a pacer is still to be decided. Pacers must sign a waiver online, carry all mandatory gear, and have the GPX. They may not mule. docs.google.com

Drop bag rules: One drop bag location (Sassafras), visited twice. Small bags only, labeled with location, name and bib number. Bring them to packet pickup. Bags are brought back to the finish Sunday; held until Monday afternoon, then disposed of or donated. Nothing is mailed. docs.google.com

Cutoff philosophy: All cutoff times are for LEAVING the aid stations, not getting to them. Individual aid station cutoffs are still to come. docs.google.com

Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Mile	Station	Cutoff	Crew access	Bag	Pacer	Med	To next
0.00	Start NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	?	?	7.26
7.26	Raven Cliff NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	15.49
22.75	Sassafras NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	14.25
37.00	Camp Wesleyan NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	?	?	11.00
48.00	Camp Thornwell NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	?	?	5.15
53.15	Sassafras NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	12.60
65.75	Cane Brake Rd. NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	13.75
79.50	Gorges AS NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	16.14
95.64	Bad Creek NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	?	?	4.36
100.00	Finish NoneSignal wrong?	10:00pm	●	○	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 200 Miler (200 miles)

What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

3 people have been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Official channel

Run Bum Tours

Official channel

Social account

runbumraces

Social account

Run Bum Tours

Social account

All (3) Official channel (1) Social account (2)

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 140 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

45% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know
Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
Got footage of this course? Send us the link
Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
Anything else: [email protected]

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.

Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.

No account, and nothing to cancel.

What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.

I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.