by Rocksteady | Jul 5, 2016 | Race Recaps, Uncategorized, USATF Championships
By John Storkamp RD In 2016 the Afton Trail Run was fortunate enough to win the bid for both the USATF Minnesota Trail and Ultra Championship races. While both the 25KM and 50KM have been the respective championships in the past, this was the first time we had the...
by Rocksteady | Jun 29, 2016 | Race Updates, Uncategorized
Welcome Runners to the 23rd Annual Afton Trail Run! We are going to keep this email short since everything you need to know is already on our website but below you will find a few quick updates and reminders. You can also checkout our Facebook page for some...
by Rocksteady | Jun 29, 2016 | Race Previews, Uncategorized
Ultrarunners are like cockroaches. In the dead of winter, on the Canadian border, they’ll lug a sled for 135 miles. Come July, when the only thing thicker than the wet blanket of humidity are the clouds of black flies swarming the itchy woodland overgrowth, they’ll...
by Rocksteady | Jun 27, 2016 | Shirts & Swag, Uncategorized
We did a very limited run of this special edition “ATR Rise Above” sweatshirt which will be for sale at this years Afton Trail Run – you can purchase one at packet pickup ($50.00 cash or check only – tax included) – limited supply, first come first serve, until they...
by Rocksteady | Jun 11, 2016 | Race Posters, Uncategorized
2016 Afton Trail Run poster – 11 X 17 print on heavy stock. This design was inspired (and when we say inspired, we mean INSPIRED) by our friends from the “FDL” and the design is meant to honor those...
by Rocksteady | Jun 11, 2016 | Shirts & Swag, Uncategorized
OK, we could not be any more excited to unveil this years Afton Trail Run shirt. This shirt was inspired (and when we say inspired, we mean INSPIRED) by our friends from the “FDL” and the design is meant to honor those...
by Rocksteady | May 28, 2016 | Race Numbers
The Afton Trail Run hosts two races simultaneously, the Afton 50KM Trail Race (starts at 6:30 AM Saturday) and the Afton 25KM Trail Race (starts at 7:30 AM Saturday). Each distance will have its own unique race number (unique color and number series) so runners can be...
by Rocksteady | Jan 13, 2016 | Uncategorized, Website
We are super excited to announce the unveiling of the new Afton Trail Run website! This post probably gets a little more technical and delves into the nuts and bolts of why we designed our site the way we did than the average reader (runner) may be interested in...
by Rocksteady | Jul 9, 2015 | Uncategorized, Volunteer Thank You's
A huge thank you to all of our volunteers, we could not do it without you! Click image below to see larger .PDF version.
by Rocksteady | Jun 30, 2015 | Race Updates, Uncategorized
Welcome to the 22nd Annual Afton Trail Run! We are going to keep this email short since everything you need to know is already on our WEBSITE but below you will find a few quick reminders. You can also checkout our Facebook page for a lot of fun stuff leading up to...
