Is crew access allowed on the 25k course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 25k course. One crew vehicle per runner at a time, and only at the crew-access aid stations. Crew may not have fires, alcohol or dogs. A runner may not be aided more than 100 feet from any aid station. Crew may not ride bikes or run along the course during the race. Parking where crew are not permitted can lead to the runner's disqualification.

Are drop bags allowed on the 25k course?

No, drop bags are not allowed on the 25k course.

Are pacers allowed on the 25k course?

No, pacers are not allowed on the 25k course.

What is the cutoff time for the 25k course?

The overall time limit for the 25k course is 6 hours from the start. Cutoffs are about safety, not about whether a runner is good enough or fast enough. All cutoff times are for leaving an aid station, not arriving at it.

Ultras · US · VA

Virginia Trail Running Festival

25k · 15.5 miles

On the calendar

The date is set. Entry has not opened. Registration opens Monday, October 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET.

Race dateOctober 9-10, 2027

Duration2 days

Whenin 358 days

Who's going to Virginia Trail Running Festival?

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 Crew access 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 15.5 miles

Climb not checked yet

Descent not checked yet

High point not checked yet

Time limit 6:00:00

Aid stations 3

Started not checked yet

Finished not checked yet

Finish rate not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 3 aid stations · rust marks a stop your crew can reach

The 25k is run on the New River Trail and starts and finishes at the Mark E Hufeisen Horse Center. Finishers get a finisher award.

The surface is crushed gravel and the grade is almost flat. Cell service along the river is extremely limited.

The race

What this one is

A weekend of trail running on the New River Trail in New River Trail State Park, Virginia, held at peak fall colors. Choose the 100 mile, 50 mile, 50k or 25k. The trail is a rails-to-trails path of crushed gravel along the New River, with trestles, rapids and Foster Falls, and very little elevation change. Everything starts and finishes at the Mark E Hufeisen Horse Center.

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 docs.google.com

Vehicles per runner: 1 docs.google.com

Pacers: No docs.google.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: No docs.google.com

Cupless: Yes docs.google.com

Course marking: Partially Marked docs.google.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: One crew vehicle per runner at a time, and only at the crew-access aid stations. Crew may not have fires, alcohol or dogs. A runner may not be aided more than 100 feet from any aid station. Crew may not ride bikes or run along the course during the race. Parking where crew are not permitted can lead to the runner's disqualification. docs.google.com

Pacer rules: not checked yet

Drop bag rules: not checked yet

Cutoff philosophy: Cutoffs are about safety, not about whether a runner is good enough or fast enough. All cutoff times are for leaving an aid station, not arriving at it. docs.google.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	?	?	?	?	?	?
8.50	Jubilee Park (Ivanhoe)	?	●	○	?	?	7.00
15.50	Finish	?	●	?	?	?	?

Driving your crew

Getting your people there 1 stop with directions the race published.

Jubilee Park (Ivanhoe) mile 8.50

Directions, measured from the start/finish line: 14 miles, approximately 21 minutes. From Jackson Ferry Rd, head toward State Route 608 for approximately 292 feet. Turn RIGHT onto State Route 608 and continue for 374 feet. Turn RIGHT onto US-52 North and continue for 2.5 miles. Turn LEFT onto State Route 619 and continue for 6.7 miles. Turn LEFT onto VA-94 South / Ivanhoe Rd and continue for 4.0 miles. Turn LEFT onto Trestle Rd and continue for 0.5 miles. Turn LEFT onto New River Valley Trail State Park and continue for 0.1 miles. Once parked, the aid station is up on the trail. Jubilee Park, Ivanhoe, VA 24350 (coordinates 36.82533, -80.95066).

docs.google.com

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 100 Miler (100 Mile)
50 Miler (50 Mile)
50k (31 miles)

Other years: 2026

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.

Official channel

Run Bum Tours (YouTube)

Official channel

Social account

RunBumRaces (Instagram)

Social account

Run Bum Tours (Facebook)

Social account

All (3) Official channel (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

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

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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.

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

27% 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
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.