Heat, stairs, hills and pain were the name of the game at this past weekend’s Schuetzen NEIN Hour Endurance Run in Davenport! Race #04 in the series challenged runners to either run solo or as a relay team for nine hours for as many miles as possible in that time and the NEIN did not make it easy!

Congratulation to all the “survivors” and special kudos to No Coast runners Brian Carter, Nathen Cox, Andrew Gray, Bryan Powers, Michael Price, Jesse Reinhardt, Adam Roll, Jodee Ross, Morgan Russell, Ross Salinas, Travis Swanson & Eil Tan for digging deep and hitting 50k or more within the nine hours to earn themselves a Schuetzen Spanker. A number of No Coast runners participated on Relay teams and earned a team Spanker for running 50 miles or more!
Team ‘Endurance Tribe’ – Brandon Bartz, Bren Raschke & Clark Purnell
Team GoodVibez Sister Wivez – Michele Thompson, Danielle Wangsness & Jen Even

No Coast runner Morgan Russell also captured the female Solo win with 35.7 miles and team ‘Endurance Tribe’ took the relay win and set a new relay course record of 66.3 miles! Great job everyone!

On the Club side, the QC-TUR(d)s have jumped through the ranks to take the lead with 218.5 points! The LoKeyz are in 2nd place with 196.3 points and Thorsday TC are in 3rd place with 146.0 points!

You or someone you know running No Coast races and aren’t signed up for the series yet?! Sign up! It’s free, takes all of 10 seconds and will put you (and your running club) in the chase for some sweet division awards! Plus your participation supports an incredible community of trail races in this great state of Iowa!

We have a bit of a summer break in No Coast racing through July and then race #05 is scheduled to take place at the Mines of Spain Trail Races on August 14th in Dubuque!

Photo Credit: Phil Pancrazio

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What a great day up in Decorah for the Crater Trail Run, race #03 in this year’s No Coast Trail Series! Beautiful trails, gnarly & challenging courses and a ton of wonderful trail people made for an awesome weekend up north! NCTS runners tackled 5k, 10k, 25k or 50k distances and as a result, the series standings got a big shake-up with Trail to Ultra division changes and big points being tallied across the board!

Congratulations to all of the Crater runners and especially to those running their longest distance race on the trails ever! The Trail Sisters (82.8 ) have taken over 1st place in the Club Division with Thorsday TC (76.3) moving into 2nd place and the The Runner’s Flat (65.6) rounding out the current podium in 3rd!

Next up on June 19th in Davenport is the Schuetzen NEIN Hour Endurance Run! 9 hours to run as many challenging trail miles as you can and those miles = points! For those of you running, get ready to feel all the feels…

Photo Credit: Nick Chill Photography

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Wet’n’wild! Just how you trail kids like it!
Sunderbruch B&B Trail Races took place this past weekend and what a weekend it was!

Friday night’s kids’ race featured perfect May weather along with a gang of adorable junior trail runners in training. Throw in cotton candy for all runners at the finish line and you’ve got a recipe for fun!
Saturday morning’s 5k-ish and 10k-ish brought some challenging but exciting conditions and every participant leaned into it with maximum enthusiasm and had a blast running trails and celebrating with delicious bacon and beer!

Congratulations to all of the runners in the event and special kudos to the No Coast runners snagging spots on the podium! Ross Salinas, Jodee Ross, Erin Imoehl, Jen Even and Melissa Barnard!
In the Club Division, the QC-TUR(d)s (39.9) are currently in 3rd place with the Trail Sisters (41.6) jumping straight into the fracas in 2nd place and the defending champs LoKeyz (45.7) out in front!

Next up in the series is Crater Trail Run on June 5th up in Decorah and Schuetzen NEIN Hour Endurance Run in Davenport on June 19th! Both offer Ultra and Trail division distances so there’s sure to be some moving and shaking in the standings through the summer!

Photo Credit: Mike Van Hulle