Is crew access allowed on the 100 Mile course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 100 Mile course. All crew and pacer actions are the runner's responsibility -- runners must make sure their crew knows the rules. The Start/Finish is confirmed for crew access, and there will be at least one additional crew-accessible station on the course (not yet specified which).

Are drop bags allowed on the 100 Mile course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100 Mile course. Poles left at an aid station for transport must fit in a drop bag (implies a drop-bag transport system exists at aid stations); no separate drop-bag policy page was found.

Are pacers allowed on the 100 Mile course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100 Mile course. A pacer may join starting at mile 50. 100 Mile entrants are permitted pacers at or after 50 miles, or nightfall, whichever comes first. Poles are permitted for all entrants; any poles left at an aid station for transport must fit in a drop bag.

What is the cutoff time for the 100 Mile course?

The overall time limit for the 100 Mile course is 36 hours from the start. 36 hours from the 6:00 AM start. Aid-station cutoffs will be published once the 2026 course is set.

Ultras · US · NY

Virgil Crest Ultras

100 Mile

Ran · this year's race is done.

The 2026 course had not been published. The organizer states the route will differ substantially from prior years ('a major course shift') and that aid-station cutoffs will post once the course is finalized.

Race dateSeptember 12-13, 2026

Duration2 days

Start6:00am

When34 days ago

First held2008

Who's going to Virgil Crest Ultras?

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 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 100 Mile

Climb not checked yet

Descent not checked yet

High point not checked yet

Time limit 36:00:00

Aid stations 18

Started not checked yet

Finished not checked yet

Finish rate not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 18 aid stations

The signature distance at Virgil Crest, on Finger Lakes ridgelines out of Hope Lake near Cortland, NY. For 2026 the organizers have said the course will be substantially different from prior years; the specific route was not yet published.

2026 course, distance and elevation are not yet published. For context only, NOT as this year's figures: the outgoing 2025 course measured 95.953 mi with 21,758 ft of raw ascent/descent per a route published by race co-director Vinny Cappadora (plotaroute.com/route/3106887, uploaded ~Sept/Oct 2025). The organizers have explicitly said the 2026 course changes from this.

The race

What this one is

A trail ultra on Finger Lakes ridgelines near Cortland, NY, run out of Hope Lake near Greek Peak Mountain Resort since 2008. Currently directed by Happily Running, which took the race over from its prior director and has said the course changes from year to year.

Getting in

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

Lottery: No ultrasignup.com

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup happilyrunning.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 Virgil Crest Ultras Thirty six hours.

You are running it

You reach Return to Joe's 8, mile 44, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 15 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Gravel Pit, mile 55.5, warm and fed.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Virgil Crest 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: Yes happilyrunning.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 50.00 happilyrunning.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes ultrasignup.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: Yes happilyrunning.com

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: All crew and pacer actions are the runner's responsibility -- runners must make sure their crew knows the rules. The Start/Finish is confirmed for crew access, and there will be at least one additional crew-accessible station on the course (not yet specified which). happilyrunning.com

Pacer rules: 100 Mile entrants are permitted pacers at or after 50 miles, or nightfall, whichever comes first. Poles are permitted for all entrants; any poles left at an aid station for transport must fit in a drop bag. ultrasignup.com

Drop bag rules: Poles left at an aid station for transport must fit in a drop bag (implies a drop-bag transport system exists at aid stations); no separate drop-bag policy page was found. ultrasignup.com

Cutoff philosophy: 36 hours from the 6:00 AM start. Aid-station cutoffs will be published once the 2026 course is set. ultrasignup.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
6.75	Start/Finish (Hope Lake)	?	●	?	?	?	4.25
11.00	Joe's 8	?	?	?	?	?	5.40
16.40	The Hurt Locker	?	?	?	?	?	6.10
22.50	Gravel Pit	?	?	?	?	?	4.50
27.00	Start/Finish (Hope Lake)	?	●	?	?	?	6.00
33.00	Hurt Locker	?	?	?	?	?	6.75
39.75	Joe's 8	?	?	?	?	?	4.25
44.00	Return to Joe's 8	?	?	?	?	?	5.40
49.40	Hurt Locker	?	?	?	?	?	6.10
55.50	Gravel Pit	?	?	?	?	?	4.50
60.00	Return to Gravel Pit	?	?	?	?	?	6.00
66.00	Hurt Locker	?	?	?	?	?	6.75
72.75	Joe's 8	?	?	?	?	?	4.25
77.00	Return to Joe's 8	?	?	?	?	?	5.40
82.40	Hurt Locker	?	?	?	?	?	6.10
88.50	Gravel Pit	?	?	?	?	?	4.50
93.00	Return to Gravel Pit	?	?	?	?	?	6.00
99.00	Hurt Locker (Finish)	?	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50 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.

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 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.

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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.

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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: 86 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

35% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

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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.