Aid stations
Long stretches between aid stations
The Wyoming Range 100 has 11 aid stations, including the finish. The longest stretch is 15.2 miles, from Box Canyon (mile 17.1) to Roaring Fork Lakes (mile 32.3).
The race has seven sections that are ten miles or longer.
Aid station captains have the final and only say
Just it case it doesn’t go without say, while the Wyoming Range 100 only has three “official” cutoffs, we fully empower our aid station captains to pull runners who are not fit to continue. Our captains are seasoned ultra-runners and outdoorspeople. They know the course and the challenges it presents.
If a captain says you cannot continue, there is no negotiation — you are done. Please, respect their decision and come back next year to get the job done.
Cutoffs
Three manageable (but sneaky) cutoffs
Although we designed the Wyoming Range 100 to be tough, we did not design it to have a low finishing rate. We want every runner who starts the race to finish the race. To help make this happen, we only have three cutoffs on the course.
| Cutoff (hours) | Aid station | Miles | Time of day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | McDougal Gap | 54.6 | 5:00am Saturday |
| 36 | Grizzly Basin | 83.9 | 7:00pm Saturday |
| 48 | Box Y Ranch (Finish) | 105.0 | 7:00am Sunday |
Do not be fooled by the seemingly generous cutoffs! We’ve had plenty of runners who got behind the first cutoff because they started a bit too conservatively.
If you arrive at the finish after the cutoff, you’ll be the proud recipient of an (unofficial) finisher buckle.
Enforcement
We will enforce the McDougal Gap and Grizzly Basin cutoffs on the “exit” side of the aid station. This means you must leave the aid station before the cutoff time.
If, for example, you enter McDougal Gap at 4:58am and sit for five minutes, you will not be allowed to continue. The aid station captain is solely responsible for enforcing the cutoff and will go by their watch and their watch alone, which will be synchronized with the race time.
In the same vein, an aid station captain may pull a runner from the course at any time, if the captain believes it is unsafe for the runner to continue. Keep in mind, we do not want to pull anyone from the course. Again, we want everyone to finish. Our volunteers will do everything in their power to keep you moving – up to and including throwing you out of an aid station.
The finish line cutoff will similarly be enforced against the race time. This means that, if we start the race at 7:03:32am on Friday, the 48-hour cutoff will be 7:03:32am on Sunday. The finish line race clock will be the official device (with the RD’s watch as a backup).
Returning to an aid station
If a runner leaves an aid station and comes back to it after more than 30 minutes or so (except in the event of inclement weather), the aid station captain may pull the runner from the race. In our experience, runners who do this are highly unlikely to finish.
An exception to this policy is waiting on a storm. If the weather looks back, please seek shelter in an aid station.
Food and drinks
Food
All aid stations will have an assortment of “quick” sweet and salty foods — chips, pickles, cookies, bananas, gummy bears, PB&Js, potatoes, etc. Aside from the first aid station, our aid stations will also have “real” and hot foods, like quesadillas, burgers, soups, and bacon.
If you have significant dietary restrictions, PLEASE pack your own food in your drop bags and/or backpack. While we do our best to accommodate a range of appetites and diets, we simply cannot meet everyone’s needs. Our volunteers are awesome but don’t have the wherewithal to definitively say if a given food has certain ingredients or was prepared in a particular way.
You can view our food/nutrition plan here — an actual look at what will be in each aid station.
Drinks
Every aid station will have potable water and Tailwind. If you’re concerned about a particular Tailwind flavor or whether it has caffeine, please pack your own performance drink. Most aid stations will have soda and coffee, too.