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The Fifth Annual Farmdale Trail Runs will be held Saturday, October 9, 2010. Come join us for the 10-mile, 30-mile, or 50-mile Ultra!
Race Day: 60 days
Located in East Peoria, IL, Farmdale is an 800 acre hidden gem maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers and volunteer organizations. It offers beautiful views of both flora and fauna. With miles and miles of meandering single track trail, service road, and open prairie, Farmdale is the perfect stage for a premier trail race. If you enjoy trails and haven’t been to Farmdale, what are you waiting for? Here’s your chance!
Official 2009 Race Results:
8 Milers: [ IVS Web Site ]
32 Milers: [ View PDF ]
Posted: January 22, 2010
Farmdale 2010 will be held on OCTOBER 9th. Farmdale registration will be opening on January 23rd via RunRace. We will have 10, 30 and 50 mile races this year! The website will be updated soon to reflect the changes. 50 mile will start at 5:00 am and have a 13 hour cutoff. 30 mile will start at 8:00 am and have a 9 hour cutoff. 10 mile will start at 8:00 am. All runners will receive a long sleeve technical shirt. 50 milers will get something extra! Hope to see you there!
Posted: October 19, 2009
Well, another Farmdale is in the bag. What an exciting event it was! The 8 milers started us out with some fast speeds on a course that was a bit muddy in spots. There were 81 runners in the 8 mile, most locals, but had two all the way from the Czech Republic! Overall the course was in great condition, and the trees were showing some great color. The weather was, once again, incredible. It was just about as perfect as you could get for running. The ultra was exciting this year for many reasons. The race for the top five was pretty close for the first three loops, then James Roche kicked it into high gear for a finish 17 minutes ahead of Matt Condron (winner of the IL Grand Slam). Matt Condron, Jason Elliot and Joe Winch finished 2, 3, and 4 and were all within 1 minute and 24 seconds of each other. That was FUN! The ladies were cruising too. Rachel Furman, the female winner finished 5th overall! Rachel maintained a 15 minute lead over 2nd place female, Ellen Erhardt, for the entire race. Third place was reserved for Jake "Trailblazergirl" Vernon. Jake is the female winner of the IL Ultra Grand Slam! Great job Jake! We also had 12 of our 54 finishers running their first Ultra! Great job first timers. It was awesome to see some new faces this year and some of the usual suspects too! Once again we had great volunteers who worked to make Farmdale a great race. Thanks to everyone who gave up their Saturday to make this a great race. Finally-we say goodbye to Dave Tapp, RD and creator of the Farmdale Trail Run. No he finished the race and is doing fine-just goodbye from his RD'ing of the race. Thanks Dave and Cori for your hard work at putting together such a great race. Adam and I have BIG shoes to fill. Hope to see you all next year! -MIKE KLOP
Posted: October 12, 2009
Packet pickup is from 6 PM to 7 PM on Friday, and 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM Saturday morning at the main parking lot. If you wish to camp Friday evening, be sure to bring your own water! There is plenty of room to camp and it is a beautiful area to do so. Come on out Friday evening and keep Mike and Adam company!!
Posted: October 07, 2009
SEE ABOVE. Thanks to Corey Lyons for updating this information! See you all in 10 days!
Posted: October 06, 2009
There is a bit of confusion amongst the Farmdale runners as to why their name doesn't appear on the "who's registered" portion of the website. That is simply a link to the runrace.net website. If you did not register using that site, you will not appear on their list. That does not mean you are not currently registered if you mailed in your registration. A complete list of registered runners will be posted on this site soon. Thanks for your understanding. Soon the only thing that will matter is putting one foot in front of the other on some beautiful trails.
