Is crew access allowed on the 12 Hour course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 12 Hour course. Runners may set up personal aid stations at their vehicles or along the course. Parking is in marked spaces only; spaces along the fence are for runners using vehicles as aid stations. Camping Thursday to Sunday; none Wednesday night.

Are pacers allowed on the 12 Hour course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 12 Hour course. Friends may join a casual runner for an occasional lap or two. Record attempts have different rules and may prohibit outside pacing; tell Southeastern Trail Runs before the race.

What is the cutoff time for the 12 Hour course?

The overall time limit for the 12 Hour course is 12 hours from the start. The clock is the only limit. You can stop to eat, change, nap or sleep; the clock never stops and you do not have to keep moving.

The Endless Mile 12 Hour 2026: Start Time

The course

Where it goes fixed time · 1 aid station

Run as many laps as you can in 12 hours on a paved, lighted 1.00203-mile loop through Veterans Park. Every 6 hours the field circles the cone at the timing mat and reverses direction. Optional Friday start if arranged in advance.

Paved and flat. The race says about 15 feet of gain per loop on its event page and about 12 to 15 feet on UltraSignup. Direction reverses every 6 hours.

The race

What this one is

Timed races of 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours on a USATF certified 1.00203-mile paved, lighted loop at Veterans Park in Alabaster, Alabama, plus lap-counted marathon and 50K options. Direction reverses every 6 hours. One aid station serves real food around the clock, and every lap passes your crew, your gear and the bathrooms. Solo runners who reach 100 miles get a buckle, and 200 miles gets another.

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

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 southeasterntrailruns.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes southeasterntrailruns.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: not checked yet

Cupless: Yes southeasterntrailruns.com

Course marking: Fully Marked southeasterntrailruns.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Runners may set up personal aid stations at their vehicles or along the course. Parking is in marked spaces only; spaces along the fence are for runners using vehicles as aid stations. Camping Thursday to Sunday; none Wednesday night. southeasterntrailruns.com

Pacer rules: Friends may join a casual runner for an occasional lap or two. Record attempts have different rules and may prohibit outside pacing; tell Southeastern Trail Runs before the race. southeasterntrailruns.com

Drop bag rules: not checked yet

Cutoff philosophy: The clock is the only limit. You can stop to eat, change, nap or sleep; the clock never stops and you do not have to keep moving. southeasterntrailruns.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
?	Main aid station NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50K (31.063 miles)
Marathon (27.055 miles)
24 Hour
48 Hour
6 Hour
72 Hour

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.

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.

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.

72 Hour

Main aid station
Yes
No

48 Hour

Main aid station
Yes
No

24 Hour

Main aid station
Yes
No

12 Hour

Main aid station
Yes
No

6 Hour

Main aid station
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.

The Endless Mile

Who's going to The Endless Mile?

Where it goes fixed time · 1 aid station

What this one is

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

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?

72 Hour

48 Hour

24 Hour

12 Hour

6 Hour

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