Are drop bags allowed on the 200K course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 200K course. You can place a drop bag at the Devil's Aid Station at mile 6.66 on the 15.6 mile loop.

Are pacers allowed on the 200K course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 200K course. Human pacers may join their runners after the 50K mark and wear a pacer bib on the front of their shirts or shorts. Canine pacers are welcome from the start: runners with dogs start at the back and keep the dog on a short leash until the crowd is much thinner. Runners provide water bowls and food for their dogs.

What is the cutoff time for the 200K course?

The overall time limit for the 200K course is 40 hours from the start. The course is hard but the race directors are magnanimous. Runners must start Loop 7 by 10AM Sunday. Just keep moving and you won't get cut. Small naps and breaks are fine, and the directors are generally accommodating if you ask.

Temptation 200 Ultras: Cutoffs, Start Time

The course

Where it goes multi-loop · 4 aid stations

The full distance for the long ultra. Everyone in the long ultra starts as a 200K participant and can continue or drop at any time. Finishing at 50K, 100K or 150K earns an official finish at that distance with its own award; reaching the 200K earns the 200K buckle.

Soft sandy soil. Some portions are soft and rolling, not unlike a sand dune, and the race calls the extremely soft stretches tank traps. Other portions are flat, well packed and runnable. Gaiters are recommended. The surface is unimproved, with no pavement or crushed gravel other than crossing intersections.

The race

What this one is

A grassroots trail ultra at Sand Ridge State Forest in central Illinois, a 7200 acre forest island surrounded by farm fields. Everyone who wants a long distance registers for the 200K, then chooses on the day how far to go: 50K, 100K, 150K or the full 200K, on a loop of soft sandy trail run in alternating directions. A 50K only entry and a 10K are also offered.

The race was started in 2019 by two race directors who had worked together since 2014 on trail events from 5K up to ultra distances.

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 temptation200.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: Yes ultrasignup.com

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Temptation 200 Ultras Forty hours.

You are running it

You reach Devil's Aid Station, mile 6.7, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 3 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are deciding

You find out Temptation 200 Ultras 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: not checked yet

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes temptation200.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes temptation200.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: Allowed temptation200.com

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: not checked yet

Pacer rules: Human pacers may join their runners after the 50K mark and wear a pacer bib on the front of their shirts or shorts. Canine pacers are welcome from the start: runners with dogs start at the back and keep the dog on a short leash until the crowd is much thinner. Runners provide water bowls and food for their dogs. temptation200.com

Drop bag rules: You can place a drop bag at the Devil's Aid Station at mile 6.66 on the 15.6 mile loop. temptation200.com

Cutoff philosophy: The course is hard but the race directors are magnanimous. Runners must start Loop 7 by 10AM Sunday. Just keep moving and you won't get cut. Small naps and breaks are fine, and the directors are generally accommodating if you ask. temptation200.com

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
?	Start/Finish aid station NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
3.33	Aid station at mile 3.33 NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	3.33
6.66	Devil's Aid Station NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	●	?	?	4.84
11.50	Aid station at mile 11.5 NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50K
Dirt Circus 100k
Not Tempted 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.

Nobody has been out there with a camera or a microphone yet. A gap means nobody has found it, not that it is not out there. Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send us the link.

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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.

Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

What year? Were you there?

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Your phone company:

Which stops did a text get out from?

Leave a stop blank if you did not try, or do not remember.

200K

Start/Finish aid station
Yes
No
Aid station at mile 3.33 mile 3.3
Yes
No
Devil's Aid Station mile 6.7
Yes
No
Aid station at mile 11.5 mile 11.5
Yes
No

Dirt Circus 100k

Start/Finish aid station
Yes
No
Aid station at mile 3.33 mile 3.3
Yes
No
Devil's Aid Station mile 6.7
Yes
No
Aid station at mile 11.5 mile 11.5
Yes
No

50K

Start/Finish aid station
Yes
No
Aid station at mile 3.33 mile 3.3
Yes
No
Devil's Aid Station mile 6.7
Yes
No
Aid station at mile 11.5 mile 11.5
Yes
No

Your email:

Optional. Never shown.

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.

Temptation 200 Ultras

Who's going to Temptation 200 Ultras?

Where it goes multi-loop · 4 aid stations

What this one is

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

How NavRun helps with Temptation 200 Ultras Forty hours.

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Other distances and other years

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Which stops did a text get out from?

200K

Dirt Circus 100k

50K

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.