Also 17-mile Blaylock Creek "fun" run; both events are out-and-back courses utilizing the Athens-Big Fork trail.

NOTE: This event is NOT for trail-newbies.

If you are not an experienced trail - or ultra-runner (or adventure racer), we happily invite you to one of the other UTS runs, BUT NOT THIS ONE. This is a difficult event on a difficult trail that presents many opportunities for one to get lost, injured, exhausted, or incapacitated--with sparse access for rescue.

MORE Notes:

Please do not be enticed into trying this run because of the difficulty warning--it is merely an honest attempt at preventing the run organizers from having to find and rescue someone ill-equipped for the event.

A cut-off time of 10:30am (2.5 hours) will be enforced at the turn-around (half-way) point for the 17-mile run. Runners reaching that point after 10:30 must turn around (--NOT proceed on the marathon course).

For more information, contact Stacey

RACE WAIVER: PLEASE READ - This entry contains limitations of your legal rights.

I know that participating in an ultramarathon race is a potentially dangerous and hazardous activity that could result in serious injury or death. I should not enter or participate in this race unless I am medically able and properly trained. And by my signature, I certify that I am medically able to participate in this event, am in good health, and am properly trained. I agree to abide by any decision of a race official relative to any aspect of my participation in this event, including the right of any official to deny or suspend or halt my participation for any reason whatsoever. I assume all risks associated with participating in this event, including but not limited to: falls, contact with other participants, the effects of the weather, including high heat and/or humidity or freezing temperatures, traffic and the conditions of the road and trail, encounters with wild or domestic animals, all such risks being known and appreciated by me. Having read this waiver and knowing these facts and in consideration of your accepting my entry, I, for myself and anyone entitled to act on my behalf, waive and release the race directors and workers, Arkansas Ultra Running Association, U.S. Forest Service, Arkansas State Parks, and all sponsors, their representatives and successors from all claims or liabilities of any kind arising out of my participation in this event, even though that liability may arise out of negligence or carelessness on the part of the persons or organizations referenced above in this waiver. I grant permission to race management to use any photographs, recordings, or other records of my participation in this event for any promotional purposes. I also understand that the race director has the right to refuse any entry for any reason they see fit.

I further agree to abide by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) recommendations for the prevention of the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and other communicable diseases, and I attest to having read the CDC's guidance at:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention.html
I assume all such risks being known, appreciated, and accepted by me. In addition, I acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases and voluntarily assume the risk that I may be exposed to or infected by COVID-19 and/or other communicable diseases by participating in this event. I acknowledge that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, permanent disability, and/or death. I understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected by COVID-19 in connection with my participation in this event and personally assume this risk.