Are drop bags allowed on the 100K RUCK course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100K RUCK course. Drop bags to all aid stations (not water stations) are available. Drop your bag in the correct spot at packet pickup the evening before or the morning of.

Are pacers allowed on the 100K RUCK course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100K RUCK course. Only 1 Pacer Per Runner and only allowed in Last Half of each Race

What is the cutoff time for the 100K RUCK course?

The overall time limit for the 100K RUCK course is 27 hours 30 minutes from the start.

Ultras · US · TX

Hard Times 100

100K RUCK · 68.7 miles

Registration open

Registration is open.

Race dateJanuary 2, 2027

Start8:00am

Whenin 70 days

First held2027

Who's going to Hard Times 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

68.7 miles

Climb Our math

856 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

Descent Our math

779 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

High point

not checked yet

Time limit The race

27:30:00

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 15 aid stations

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

Dirt, gravel and paved trails, roads and sidewalks on the Northeast Texas Trail. The trail is under ongoing construction, so the route may differ slightly on race day.

The race

What this one is

The Hard Times 100 is a January ultra on the Northeast Texas Trail, a flat, open corridor of gravel, dirt, pavement and grass that passes through small towns, bridges and prairies around Paris, Texas. It offers a 50K, a 100K, a 100K ruck and a 100 miler, and is billed as the first true point-to-point 100K in Texas and the state's first near point-to-point 100 mile. The trail is still under construction, so the route can differ slightly on race day.

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 texasoutlawrunning.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Hard Times 100 Six stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Annona, mile 31.4, before its 9:00pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 13 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are deciding

You find out Hard Times 100 is months of work away, not years, and you enter.

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: not checked yet

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes ultrasignup.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes texasoutlawrunning.com

Cupless: Yes texasoutlawrunning.com

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: not checked yet

Pacer rules: Only 1 Pacer Per Runner and only allowed in Last Half of each Race ultrasignup.com

Drop bag rules: Drop bags to all aid stations (not water stations) are available. Drop your bag in the correct spot at packet pickup the evening before or the morning of. texasoutlawrunning.com

Cutoff philosophy: not checked yet

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	New Boston NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	6.70
6.70	67 NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	6.20
12.90	De Kalb NoneSignal wrong?	1:30pm	?	●	?	?	4.20
17.10	Lighthouse NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	4.80
21.90	Avery NoneSignal wrong?	5:00pm	?	●	?	?	4.60
26.50	4310 NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	4.90
31.40	Annona NoneSignal wrong?	9:00pm	?	●	?	?	4.30
35.70	Young Creek NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	3.90
39.60	Clarksville NoneSignal wrong?	12:00am	?	●	?	?	4.30
43.90	2123 NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	5.40
49.30	2573 NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	4.50
53.80	Detroit NoneSignal wrong?	6:00am	?	●	?	?	6.10
59.90	Blossom NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	○	?	?	4.70
64.60	Reno NoneSignal wrong?	10:00am	?	●	?	?	4.10
68.70	Finish NoneSignal wrong?	11:30am	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 100 Miler (100 Mile)
100K (68.7 miles)
50K (32.8 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

Texas Outlaw Running YouTube channel

Official channel

Social account

texasoutlawrunning on Instagram

Social account

Texas Outlaw Running on Facebook

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

23% 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.