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Ultras · US · VA

Holiday Lake 50K++

50K · 33.26 miles
Registration open
Registration is open on UltraSignup and closes February 11, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET (checked 2026-10-03).
Race dateFebruary 13, 2027
Start7:00am
Whenin 112 days
First held1996

Who's going to Holiday Lake 50K++?

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.

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Distance
33.26 miles
Climb
2,429 ft
Descent
2,393 ft
High point
746 ft
Time limit The race
8:00:00
Aid stations
9
Started
not checked yet
Finished
not checked yet
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course

Where it goes multi-loop · 9 aid stations · rust marks a stop your crew can reach

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

Two loops around Holiday Lake from the 4-H Center on singletrack, forest service roads and dirt roads. After the first loop you retrace your steps and run the course in the opposite direction back to the same finish.

The weather ranges from sunny and pleasant to cold with a foot of snow.

The race

What this one is

A mid-February trail race around Holiday Lake in Virginia's Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest, with a 50K, a 25K and a 10K that all start and finish at the Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center. The courses use singletrack, forest service roads and dirt roads. The 50K is two loops, the second run in the opposite direction, and it is the first race of the Lynchburg Ultra Series. The weather ranges from sunny and pleasant to a foot of snow.

Holiday Lake 50K was founded in 1996 and grew from 71 runners in the first year to over 300 in recent years. It has a reputation as a great first ultra-distance race.

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
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Field cap
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Registration
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Qualifying
not checked yet
Minimum age
not checked yet
Transfers
No enduranceeventsva.com
Deferrals
No enduranceeventsva.com
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 enduranceeventsva.com
Vehicles per runner
not checked yet
Pacers
not checked yet
Muling
not checked yet
Drop bags
Yes enduranceeventsva.com
Cupless
not checked yet
Course marking
not checked yet
Night running
not checked yet
Dogs
Not allowed enduranceeventsva.com
Headphones
not checked yet
Crew rules
Crews are only allowed to meet their runners at aid stations 1 and 3 and the turnaround. enduranceeventsva.com
Pacer rules
not checked yet
Drop bag rules
There will be a designated drop bag area at the start/finish aid station. All belongings are the responsibility of the participant. Race directors and Holiday Lake 4H Camp will not be responsible for lost or missing items and will not mail items left at the race. enduranceeventsva.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 Start
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ● ? ? 4.04
4.04 Aid Station 1
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ? ? ? 4.19
8.23 Aid Station 2
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ○ ? ? ? 3.91
12.14 Aid Station 3
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ? ? ? 4.49
16.63 Turnaround
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 4.49
21.12 Aid Station 3
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ? ? ? 3.90
25.02 Aid Station 2
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ○ ? ? ? 4.00
29.02 Aid Station 1
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ? ? ? 4.24
33.26 Finish
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ● ? ? ?
Driving your crew

Getting your people there 2 stops with directions the race published.

Aid Station 1 mile 4.04

To get to aid station 1, drive back on 723 to 614. Turn right on 614 and go to 692. Turn right on 692 and go 0.3 miles. The aid station will be on the left.

Parking. Park on the main road.

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Aid Station 3 mile 12.14

To get to aid station 3, return to the intersection of 614 and 692. Turn right on 692 and go to the bottom of the hill. The aid station is at the bottom of the hill where Walker Road meets HWY 614.

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Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances
25K (17.22 miles)
10K
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.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Social account

Holiday Lake on Instagram

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

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.

Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

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

Optional.

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

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.

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

Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

The corrected value.

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

Optional.

Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Optional.

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

Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

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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.

Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Optional.

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

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

Optional, and we credit them on the page.

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.

The page or file on the race's own site.

Optional, and only so we can ask you a question about it.

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.

Required, because this is a conversation and we write back.

Tell us what is wrong, out of date, or missing on this page. We read every one of these and we will get back to you.

Optional.

So we know who we are writing back to.

Optional. Director, assistant, comms, whoever you are.

Leave this field blank.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 111 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
41% 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.

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.