Is crew access allowed on the 136 Miler course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 136 Miler course. Crew is allowed at every aid station except AS7. If your crew creates a problem anywhere you will be disqualified. They must follow all rules, laws and posted signs.

Are drop bags allowed on the 136 Miler course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 136 Miler course. Drop bags are available only at designated aid stations: AS2, AS4, AS6 and AS8.

Are pacers allowed on the 136 Miler course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 136 Miler course. A pacer may join starting at mile 55.7. Pacers can join at AS4 Centennial Park. At every aid station after that they can be dropped off or picked up. You may have more than one but fewer than 3 pacers at a time. At AS7 the pacer pickup or drop-off must be done within a two minute window. Pacers must be 16 or older, unless with an adult.

What is the cutoff time for the 136 Miler course?

The overall time limit for the 136 Miler course is 55 hours from the start. The race describes the 55-hour limit as room to manage your effort, solve problems and keep moving.

Ultras · US · WI

Echo 136

Registration open

Race dateSeptember 24-26, 2027

Duration3 days

Whenin 343 days

Who's going to Echo 136?

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 Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

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Distance 136 miles

Climb not checked yet

Descent not checked yet

High point not checked yet

Time limit 55:00:00

Aid stations 11

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Finished not checked yet

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The course

Where it goes point to point · 11 aid stations

No official GPX on file yet. These are the aid station coordinates, not the trail. Have the GPX? Send us the link.

A 136-mile point-to-point run on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail through Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine, from the Rice Lake boat launch to County Highway P. Nine full aid stations, 55 hours, and long stretches where it is you and the trail.

Trail conditions may change rapidly with weather. Expect mud, standing water, exposed roots, loose rocks and uneven footing. Limited cell service in the Northern Kettles.

The race

What this one is

Echo 136 is a 136ish-mile point-to-point trail race on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail through Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine, starting at the Rice Lake boat launch in the Southern Unit. Runners have 55 hours, nine full aid stations, singletrack, prairie, forest and road connectors, and long stretches alone with the trail.

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: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup ultrasignup.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: 18 ultrasignup.com

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Echo 136 Fifty five hours, and seven stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Emerald Drive Trailhead, mile 67.9, before its 1:12pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 7 stations, each next to its cutoff, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Centennial Park, mile 55.7, warm and fed, and you know you have 80 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Echo 136 is months of work away, not years, and you start.

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 ultrasignup.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 55.70 ultrasignup.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes tydish.org

Cupless: Yes ultrasignup.com

Course marking: Partially Marked tydish.org

Night running: Yes tydish.org

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew is allowed at every aid station except AS7. If your crew creates a problem anywhere you will be disqualified. They must follow all rules, laws and posted signs. ultrasignup.com

Pacer rules: Pacers can join at AS4 Centennial Park. At every aid station after that they can be dropped off or picked up. You may have more than one but fewer than 3 pacers at a time. At AS7 the pacer pickup or drop-off must be done within a two minute window. Pacers must be 16 or older, unless with an adult. ultrasignup.com

Drop bag rules: Drop bags are available only at designated aid stations: AS2, AS4, AS6 and AS8. tydish.org

Cutoff philosophy: The race describes the 55-hour limit as room to manage your effort, solve problems and keep moving. tydish.org

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 (Rice Lake Boat Launch)	?	?	?	?	?	11.00
11.00	Young Road	2:24pm	●	?	?	?	18.20
29.20	Scuppernong Trailhead	9:36pm	●	●	?	?	14.90
44.10	Deeds Place	3:36am	●	?	?	?	11.60
55.70	Centennial Park	8:00am	●	●	●	?	12.20
67.90	Emerald Drive Trailhead	1:12pm	●	?	●	?	11.30
79.20	Pike Lake Nature Trail Lot	5:36pm	●	●	●	?	?
?	Paradise Dr Trailhead Lot	10:07pm	○	?	●	?	?
?	Sunburst Ski Hill Trailhead	2:31am	●	●	●	?	?
120.80	Butler Lake	10:24am	●	?	●	?	14.90
135.70	Finish (County Highway P)	5:00pm	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other years: 2026

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.

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

Social account

tydish_running

Social account

Tydish Running Facebook

Social account

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

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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.

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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.

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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: 150 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

36% 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
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.

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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.