Quiet Silence
31 miler · 31 miles
Registration open
Race dateDecember 18, 2026
Duration1 day
Start6:00pm
Whenin 55 days
First held2024
Who's going to Quiet Silence?
Free. You can start with nothing.
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
From the name
31 miles
The race calls this course “31 miler” and hasn't published a measured distance. Trail courses often run long.
High point
not checked yet
Time limit
The race
9:00:00
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course
Where it goes
out and back · 3 aid stations
Out-and-back on the Glacial Drumlin State Trail with the turnaround at the western terminus in Cottage Grove.
The race
What this one is
A night out-and-back on the flat crushed limestone Glacial Drumlin State Trail out of Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Choose a 17.5 miler or a 31 miler, starting at 6pm on a December Friday. Bare-bones aid, cupless, and indoor voices on the way back to respect the sleeping towns.
First run in 2024 in cold, snow-free conditions. The second year had substantial snowfall.
Getting in
Getting in
Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.
- Lottery
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not checked yet
- Lottery opens
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not checked yet
- Lottery draw
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not checked yet
- Field cap
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not checked yet
- Registration
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UltraSignup
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- Qualifying
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not checked yet
- Minimum age
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not checked yet
- Transfers
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Yes
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- Deferrals
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not checked yet
Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding
How NavRun helps with Quiet Silence
Nine hours.
You are running it
You reach Deerfield Park (outbound), mile 8.8, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.
An arrival time for all 2 stations, worked out from your own training.
Start free →
You are deciding
You find out Quiet Silence 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
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Yes
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- Vehicles per runner
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not checked yet
- Pacers
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not checked yet
- Muling
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not checked yet
- Drop bags
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Yes
tydish.org
- Cupless
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Yes
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- Course marking
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not checked yet
- Night running
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Yes
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- Dogs
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not checked yet
- Headphones
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not checked yet
- Crew rules
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Spectators and crew are welcome anywhere along the course. Runners are not allowed to receive aid from them of any kind outside of the designated aid stations. Rowdy or disrespectful crew means a disqualification for the runner. Parking at the start/finish and at both turnarounds.
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- Pacer rules
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not checked yet
- Drop bag rules
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One drop bag at the turnaround, labeled with name, phone number and distance. Volunteers return bags to the start/finish as they can, with no guaranteed timeframe. The UltraSignup page says the drop bag is only at the 17.5 mile turn (8.8 miles from the start), passed twice; the Runners Manual says it is at the 31 miler's turnaround. See notes.
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- Cutoff philosophy
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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 |
| 8.80 |
Deerfield Park (outbound)
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? |
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| ? |
Western terminus turnaround, Cottage Grove
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? |
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| 22.20 |
Deerfield Park (return)
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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.
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.
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What you know
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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: 51 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
24% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.
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.
