NEV Summer Championship Series #3 2026

NEV Summer Championship Series #2 is the Never Summer 100km & 60km, a summer mountain ultra based at the Gould Community Center in Gould, Colorado. The 60km starts at 5:30 a.m. Friday, the 100km starts at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, and runners can also enter both as the Dirty Double. The 100km is 65.7 miles with 14,500 feet of climbing and a 24-hour limit; the 60km is 39.2 miles with 8,800 feet of climbing and a 15-hour limit. This is high-altitude racing from the start: the low point is 8,450 feet, the high point is 11,852 feet, and the average elevation is 10,220 feet. The route sits almost entirely inside State Forest State Park, between the Never Summer Mountains near Rocky Mountain National Park and the Medicine Bow Mountains north of Cameron Pass. Runners spend long stretches on alpine ridges, visit two peaks and five alpine lakes, and move between trail, rough trail, dirt road, jeep and logging roads, cross-country sections, rocky ground, meadows, streams, mud, and boulder fields. Above timberline, the views reach south to the northern Never Summer Mountains, west across North Park to the Park Range, and north toward Wyoming’s Snowy Range. The field is capped at 625 runners, split between 325 for the 100km and 300 for the 60km, and wildlife sightings can include moose, elk, deer, black bears, and bighorn sheep.