Below you’ll find three Google Calendars for trail running events. These are largely maintained by SBR’s Race Director.
Race Directors and Organizers, please see below regarding the addition and/or maintenance of your events. This is encouraged!!!
Ultra Trail Runs
This is a Northern California-centric ultra-trail running events calendar (including the Reno to East Tahoe area).
You may also find high-profile events outside Nor Cal (i.e. Western States qualifiers).
Sub-Ultra Trail Runs
This is a Northern California-centric sub-ultra trail running events calendar.
Important: Many ultra events include sub-ultra distance options. These events are listed on the Ultra Trail Runs calendar. This calendar is therefore intended to be supplemental.
200+ Mile Ultras
This is a calendar of 200+ mile ultra-running events.
Race Directors and Organizers
Adding Your Event(s)
To have your event added to one of the calendars, please email ben@skybreakerracing.com with the following info:
- Event Name
- Event Date(s) (Start times will not be included.)
- Event Repetition (If your event is near the end of the month, please specify whether it should fall on the fourth Saturday [or whichever day(s) of the week you have your event on] or the last Saturday, since we sometimes have five weekends in a given month. For multi-day events, this should be the first day of the event.)
- Location (City and State will suffice.)
- Distances Offered (and/or Times for fixed-time events)
- Event-Specific Webpage URL (If you don’t have a dedicated page on your site for your event, or don’t have a website at all, your event’s registration page URL is also acceptable. That said, if this is a URL that will change from one year to the next (i.e. UltraSignup event pages), we recommend providing your website URL, assuming you have one.)
Maintaining Your Event(s)
We strongly encourage you to maintain your own events. If your event is already on one of our calendars, please send an email to ben@skybreakerracing.com, including the email address associated with the Google account you’d like to use to manage your event(s), and we’ll edit the corresponding event permissions to give you access.
The following info is included in each calendar event listing and should be formatted in the following manner:
- Event Name
- Please omit trailing portions of event names like “Trail Runs” or “Trail Races.”
- Event Date(s)
- Please keep the “All Day” checkbox checked. We do not include start times.
- Annual Repetition of Events
- This part is a little tricky. Google Calendar doesn’t let us set an event to repeat annually on a specific weekend in a given month (i.e., the fourth Saturday of April). That said, some third-party calendar apps, such as Samsung Calendar, support this (i.e., if you have your Google Calendar synced to your Samsung Calendar app, you can edit your Google Calendar event in the Samsung Calendar app, and Google Calendar will allow this change). If you don’t have this capability and need it updated, feel free to email us, and we can fix it for you.
- Note: When you open your event in the Google Calendar app, it will just say “Repeats yearly,” regardless of whether the event is set to a specific date or a specific weekend of the month. On desktop, however, it will say, for example, “Annual on the fourth Saturday in April” if you have it set correctly.
- On that note, if you do have this capability and your event is near the end of a month, please be sure to distinguish between, for example, the “fourth Saturday” and the “last Saturday,” since we sometimes have five weekends in a given month.
- If your event changes weekends from one year to the next, please update your event date(s) accordingly. This is arguably the most important aspect to maintain.
- Location
- City and State will suffice, but if you’d like to include a venue name and/or full address, that’s fine too. Example: Overlook Park, 855 Pacific Ave, Auburn, CA. (The zip code is also unnecessary, but you may include it if you’d like.)
- Description Field: Please include the following:
- Line 1: Distances Offered (and/or Times for fixed-time events)
- Please list from longest to shortest (i.e., “24Hr, 12Hr, 6Hr” or “50K, 35K, 10K”)
- Use numeric distance designations when possible (In other words, don’t use terms like “Half Marathon” or “Marathon.” Acceptable exceptions: “Beer Mile,” “Kids’ Run,” or “Last-Person-Standing”)
- Use a capital “M” for mile, “K” for kilometer, and “Hr” for hour.
- Separate distances with a comma and a space.
- Line 2: Event Organization
- Start with “by” followed by your organization name.
- If your event page URL (line 3) already includes your organization’s name, this step is not mandatory, but you’re still welcome to include this line if you’d like.
- If you do not have an organization name, you can skip this line item.
- Line 3: Event-Specific Webpage URL
- If you don’t have a dedicated page on your website for your event, or don’t have a website at all, the URL of your event’s registration page is also acceptable. That said, if this is a URL that will change from one year to the next (i.e., an UltraSignup event page), we recommend providing your website URL, assuming you have one. There’s just less updating to do in the future this way.
- Example Description:
- 50K, 26.2M, 30K, 13.1M, 10K, 5K, Beer Mile, Kids’ Run
- by Skybreaker Racing
- https://www.skybreakerracing.com
- Line 1: Distances Offered (and/or Times for fixed-time events)