2018 marked the 5th year of the No Coast Trail Series and with it, another incredible year of running trails all over the state of Iowa! Seeing this wonderful community of races, runners, organizers and volunteers continue to grow and evolve into what it is today, has been a rich and rewarding experience. THANK YOU!

This year saw the series comprised of 11 independent top quality trail running events offering 27 different distances with 56 hardy No Coast runners racing at least 3 events throughout the year and being eligible for division awards!
INCREDIBLE job everyone and congratulations to all division winners!

Some special shout outs:
-Danielle Wangsness and Bryan Powers for running ALL ELEVEN races this year and Dave Fischer close behind with 10 of the 11 races including his first 100k at the MoS100!
-To all the repeat participants and division winners over the years including Denise Whiting, Tim Bergan, Jason Willits, Kim Wander, Debby Hildebrand, Kelly Teeselink and of course, Ross Salinas for placing at the top of the series all five years including 1st in the Open Ultra division this year!
-And to all the folks new to the series this year! Some of those taking on their longest trail runs ever this year!

Full 2018 NCTS Standings:
https://nocoasttrailseries.com/standings/

#1 Overall Trail – Male – Jason Willits
#1 Overall Trail – Female – Melissa Huebsch-Haugo

#1 Overall Ultra – Male – Bryan Powers
#1 Overall Ultra – Female – Danielle Wangsness

Open Trail – Male
1st – Ryan Ames
2nd – Jacob Spath
3rd – Ben Hansen (12 years old!!!)

Open Trail – Female
1st – Kelly Teeselink
2nd – Emily Eisenman
3rd – Stacy Purnell

Masters Trail – Male
1st – Dave Steines
2nd – Donny Montgomery
3rd – Kim Wander

Masters Trail – Female
1st – Denise Whiting
2nd – Cheryl Dralle Peterson
3rd – Debby Railing Hildebrand

Open Ultra – Male
1st – Ross Salinas
2nd – Jatruns Taylor
3rd – Adam Roll

Open Ultra – Female
1st – Jen Even
2nd – Michala Mielke
3rd – Kathy Rodine

Masters Ultra – Male
1st – Dave Fischer
2nd – Tim Bergan
3rd – Mark Powers

Masters Ultra – Female
1st – Wendy Foote
2nd – Shari Neese

The 2018 No Coast Trail Series wrapped up this past weekend in Dubuque with race #11 at the Mines of Spain 100 and what an epic closeout to an incredible year of racing on the No Coast! A wide spectrum of weather mixed with a challenging course and even more challenging conditions required 100mi and 100k runners to really buckle down and see what they were made of to reach that finish line!

Congratulations to each and every runner and special kudos go out to the No Coast runners Jen Even/100mi/1st, Danielle Wangsness/100k/3rd for taking top places as well as to all of the first time 100k and 100mi finishers!

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The Runner’s Flat trail races took place this past weekend outside Cedar Falls and despite conditions forcing an altered course, race organizers did an amazing job as always of providing runners a beautiful course and a fun race experience!

Congrats to all finishers in the 50k, 25k and 10k and special kudos to the Trail Division No Coast runners closing out an awesome year of racing dirt on the No Coast! Most Trail division award standings are pretty locked in now but there’s still plenty of moving & shaking possible in the Ultra divisions at this weekend’s Mines of Spain 100mi/100k up in Dubuque!

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NCTS race #09 took place this past weekend near Dubuque at the Swiss Valley Trail Run. Mother nature dished out a wet and muddy day but trail runners aren’t easily deterred and had a blast taking it on in stride!

Congrats to all runners in the 5mi, 10mi or 25k distances. Special kudos to the No Coasters taking top places!
Ross Salinas/25k/1st, Kelly Teeselink/25k/1st, Wendy Foote/10M/2nd and Adam Roll/25k/3rd!

Also, let the first two pictures in this post show everyone how incredibly photogenic the two 25k race winners and No Coast regulars Ross and Kelly are! 😆

Just two races left! A lot of the final divisions will have winners determined by these last couple races!
Remember, you have to complete THREE races in the series to be eligible for awards!
The Runner’s Flat 50k/25k/10k – October 13th
Mines of Spain 100mi/100k – October 19th-20th

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