Race number one in this year’s No Coast Trail Series is in the books! A beautifully sunny but ferociously windy day made for a fun and challenging time at the Red Shamrock Survivorship Trail Challenge in Iowa City this past weekend!

Of exactly 200 total finishers, 42 are currently signed up and participating in the No Coast Trail Series! This level of participation and support for this awesome Iowa trail race is incredible and exactly what this series is all about! If you ran at Red Shamrock this last weekend and haven’t signed up for No Coast yet, fret not! Click the Sign-up link up top and you’ll be put in the system with your points from Red Shamrock!

Next up, this weekend’s Hawkeye 50k and 25k!

Men’s overall winner Ross Salinas! Ross has been a part of No Coast since year 1 and is off to an early lead in the series!

Women’s overall winner Brittany McConnell!

We hope you’ve been enjoying this unseasonably warm winter (at least so far) and that you’ve had a fantastic holiday season but we’re sure most of you are itching for spring weather and getting back to racing dirt on the No Coast!

After another awesome year of the NCTS last year thanks to all you amazing runners and race directors, the 2016 edition of the No Coast Trail Series is ready to roll and will be for the most part, very similar to last year’s.

With nine Iowa trail races on board with over 20 options for distance ranging from 5k to 100mi, there’s something for everyone! Please take a couple minutes to read through our site as it includes all the important details for the series.

And always, be sure to Share the No Coast Trail Series FB page with your friends, family, running clubs and every place imaginable to help spread the word for NCTS in 2016! Let’s hit 500 Likes by the time the series officially gets underway in April!

-2016 NCTS Series Schedule-

• Red Shamrock Foundation Survivorship Trail Challenge – April 2
• Hawkeye 50K/25K – April 9
• Sunderbruch B&B Trail Races – May 21
• Booneville Backroads Ultra (100m, 100k, 50k, 10k) – May 28
• Schuetzen NEIN! Hour Endurance Run – June 18
• Mines of Spain 4mi/7mi/half marathon – August 6
• Pleasant Creek Trail Run – September 17
• Swiss Valley Trail Run – October 1
• The Runner’s Flat Trail Races – October 8

A few important notes…

• Please sign up for the series if you plan to participate in any of the races!
  Of course participation is totally FREE but this process will just help with compiling points and participant info.
• Blockhouse is longer in the series but we’ve added the Schuetzen NEIN! and the Pleasant Creek Trail Run!
• An option has been added for a runner to forfeit Ultra division race points to stay scored in the Trail division if they so choose to. See the rules document for details.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact NCTS via the Facebook page or nocoasttrailseries@gmail.com.

Thank you and we hope you’ll join us for another year of training, racing and building this awesome slice of trail running community on the No Coast!