Here’s your chance to run where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play (oh, give me a home etc.). Sing along! Antelope Island State Park is on the largest island (28,000 acres) in the Great Salt Lake. There are about 45 miles of trails there with 500 head of buffalo to dodge. Sometime they move, sometimes they don’t. Anyone in the Salt Lake area who’s run these trails enjoys them.

There are three big trail running events put on each year.

Antelope Island Buffalo Run
25K, 50K, 50-mile, 100-mile
March 23-24, 2012

Get all the Buffalo Run race information here.

Did you know that over 1000 different runners have run the Buffalo Run over the past five years? About 1700 shirts have been handed out over the years. Roughly 200 gallons of buffalo stew with well over 500 lbs. of meat have been served, and over 29,000 miles have been run in the past five years. Yeah, I didn’t know all this stuff either until I calculated it.

Antelope Island 50K and 100K Trail Run
October 6, 2012

Get all the 50K and 100K race information here.

This Antelope Island 100K will start at 6 a.m. on Saturday, November 5th at the White Rock Bay trailhead. The Antelope Island 50K will start at 8 a.m. at the same location. This is the same place as the Buffalo Run start. The time limit will be 16 hours for the 100K and 14 hours for the 50K. There will not be an early start option. The course is pretty easy.

Also, the number of entries for each race will be limited to 75, for a total of 150 runners. I want to keep this race on the small side. We’ll have a wait list for those who procrastinate and don’t get their entry in on time.

Mountain View Trail Half Marathon
October 20, 2012, 9:00 a.m.

Get all the half marathon race information here.

We’ll start at White Rock Bay near the trailhead. The course will then take you on some dirt roads for about 2-3 miles so the massive crowd of runners can string out a little bit, then you’ll bushwack for about a quarter mile down the hillside to the Mountain View trail, then turn right and run to the Fielding Garr Ranch at the south end of the island. That’s all there is to it. Pretty easy.