Schedule

Friday, October 17th:

• 4:00pm – 7:00pm Packet Pickup (Trailhead Front Desk)
• 5:00-6:00pm SPEAKER! 2025 speaker TBD.(2024 speaker: Verna Volker, founder of Native Women Run, presentation on her personal journey and why she started Native Women Run. Free and open to the public. Inside Great Hall of Trailhead.)

Saturday, October 18th:

•  6:00am – 1:00pm Packet Pickup (Race Finish area behind the Trailhead.)
• 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. 12 hour Loopet Start
• 9 a.m. – 1 Loop Fun Run/Walk Start (untimed)
• 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Indigenous People’s Festival (Free! All are welcome!)
• 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Northern Indigenous Games lead by Coach Dan (Oneida, Wolf Clan), free & fun for all ages!
• 10:30 a.m. – Little Loopet – FREE for all kids, no pre registration necessary.  Sign kids up at the event.  The loop will be about a half mile and kids can run it as many times as they’d like.
• 11:00 a.m. – Story time with author Joanne Zacharias (Dakota) – Taku Wadaka He? What Do You See?
• 12:00 p.m. – Short film showing inside the Trailhead by Jordan Marie Whetstone (Lakota)
• 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. 6 hour Loopet Start

Finish the maximum amount of miles as possible in 12 hours.

• 5 mile loop open 7 a.m. – 6:15 p.m.
• 1 mile loop open 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

To count a lap on either loop it must be completed prior to 7 p.m.

Aid Stations

A full ultramarathon aid station will be available between loops that will highlight Dakota foods (food list will be shared closer to the event, standard ultra foods will also be served).

Pacers and Relay Teams

Pacers will be allowed after 1:00 pm. Pacers age 18 and under can accompany runners after 9:00 am. Each runner may only have a single pacer at a time.

Relay teams can rotate runners however they wish, but can only exchange runners between loops.

Vendors and Experiences

There will be lawn games and Native & Dakota vendors and experiences set up for crew / spectators / runners taking a break between laps!

Join Northern Indigenous Games (Coach Dan) from 9am – 12pm! “We look at the more holistic concept of how you play the game, and why you play the game. As Indigenous people, we have our identity, our language, and our traditional games. We think, behave, and speak in certain ways in how and why we play traditional and modern games that goes back to our cultural ways of being and doing as Indigenous people.” – Dan Ninham, Oneida, Wolf Clan, Northern Indigenous Games

Parking

If you are parking, we recommend parking at Mortenson Parking Lot where there are plenty of spaces. It is an easy walk or warmup jog to the Trailhead. There will be some limited parking space at the Trailhead. 

Alternative Transportation

Bike (the best!): We encourage participants and spectators to bike, walk, or jog on race morning. There will be extra bike racks at the Trailhead (parking lot) where you can lock your bike.

Take the bus(!): The Number 7 route  typically stops right at the Trailhead, but because of the event it will stop at Xerxes and Plymouth. Check www.metrotransit.org for info and route planning.

Dropoffs: Pull-through drop-offs may be done in the north Trailhead parking lot, though the full turnaround itself will be closed.

Bag Drop

 Drop bag storage will be available at the aid station. A self-serve water/energy drink only aid station will be available at mile 3 of the 5 mile loop.