Is crew access allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 100K course. Crew can reach the start, Crystal Springs Pavilion, Brady Mountain Road, Avery Rec Area and Charlton. All roads to them are paved county roads.

Are drop bags allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100K course. Reasonably sized boxes or bags, labeled with your name, race number and the aid station name. 100K drop bags go to Start/Finish, Crystal Springs Pavilion and Avery Recreation Area. Bags come back to the finish pavilion: Avery after the final runner clears the station, Crystal Springs Pavilion first load 6:00pm Saturday. Uncollected items are donated the week after the race.

Are pacers allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100K course. A pacer may join starting at mile 35.5. Safety runners can be picked up or switched at the listed crewable aid stations from the second visit to Brady Mountain Road onward. Runners may have one safety runner at a time. Safety runners sign a waiver at check-in or at an aid station and wear a bib. Runners 60 and older may have a safety runner from the start with the race director's permission before the race.

What is the cutoff time for the 100K course?

The overall time limit for the 100K course is 21 hours from the start.

Ultras · US · AR

Run Lovit

100K · 62.5 miles

Registration open

Registration is open.

Race dateFebruary 27-28, 2027

Duration2 days

Start7:00am

Whenin 126 days

First held2014

Who's going to Run Lovit?

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

62.5 miles

Climb The race

9,485 ft

Descent The race

9,449 ft

High point The race

1,348 ft

Time limit The race

21:00:00

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 16 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Recorded 2025.

A 100 kilometer run on the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail, starting at 7:00 AM from Mountain Harbor Resort with a 21 hour time limit. Finishers receive a medal.

Rocks and roots are a strong feature on this course and, depending on seasonal rainfall, multiple wet creek crossings are possible. Surface is trail or dirt road with substantial rocks, roots and/or ruts.

The race

What this one is

Lake Ouachita Vista Trail runs of 100 miles, 100K and 50K, starting and finishing at Mountain Harbor Resort near Mount Ida, Arkansas. The course follows the southern rim of Lake Ouachita and runs through the Ouachita National Forest, mostly on singletrack with some Forest Service road and a little pavement. The trail is rocky and rolling, creek crossings are possible, and runners are out after dark. Proceeds go to trail work in the Ouachita National Forest and the Hot Springs area.

The first race was in 2014, and its proceeds helped finish building the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail. Proceeds since then have gone to trail maintenance and improvement.

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: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Run Lovit Twenty one hours, and two stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Avery Rec Area (east end), mile 28.5, before its 4:00pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 14 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Brady Mountain Road, mile 35.5, warm and fed, and you know you have 27 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Run Lovit 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: Yes runlovit.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 35.50 runlovit.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes runlovit.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: Yes runlovit.com

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew can reach the start, Crystal Springs Pavilion, Brady Mountain Road, Avery Rec Area and Charlton. All roads to them are paved county roads.

Pacer rules: Safety runners can be picked up or switched at the listed crewable aid stations from the second visit to Brady Mountain Road onward. Runners may have one safety runner at a time. Safety runners sign a waiver at check-in or at an aid station and wear a bib. Runners 60 and older may have a safety runner from the start with the race director's permission before the race.

Drop bag rules: Reasonably sized boxes or bags, labeled with your name, race number and the aid station name. 100K drop bags go to Start/Finish, Crystal Springs Pavilion and Avery Recreation Area. Bags come back to the finish pavilion: Avery after the final runner clears the station, Crystal Springs Pavilion first load 6:00pm Saturday. Uncollected items are donated the week after the race.

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?	?	●	●	○	?	4.10
4.10	Hickory Nut Mountain Vista NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	3.40
7.50	FS47A NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	3.90
11.40	Crystal Springs Pavilion NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	○	?	3.30
14.70	Bear Creek NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	7.30
22.00	Brady Mountain Road NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	○	?	3.80
25.80	Spillway NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	2.70
28.50	Avery Rec Area (east end) NoneSignal wrong?	4:00pm	●	●	○	?	3.00
31.50	Spillway NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	4.00
35.50	Brady Mountain Road NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	●	?	7.20
42.70	Bear Creek NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	3.50
46.20	Crystal Springs Pavilion NoneSignal wrong?	10:00pm	●	●	●	?	4.30
50.50	Charlton NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	●	?	4.50
55.00	FS47A NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	3.40
58.40	Hickory Nut Mountain Vista NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	4.10
62.50	Finish Mountain Harbor NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	○	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 100 Miler (100 Mile)
50K

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.

Social account

lovithundred

Social account

Run LOViT

Social account

LOViT 100

News article

All (3) News article (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: 117 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.