Announcements I made some changes to the newsletter, hopefully for the better.
There’s an announcements section sometimes, I’ll try to put when great new events come onto the calendar, etc Only 60 days of events are listed PATR events are listed first, then other events of interest, rather than mixed together PATR Events Group runs or mini-races set up by group members. Apr 08 Tuesday Group Run-Willow Lake---Jim leading! PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners March 2025 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Mar Tue
Mar 04 Quartz Mtn We will meet at the dirt road that leads up to Quartz Mtn off of White Spar. This is a no-drop group run (we stop at every intersection and allow everyone to catch up before continuing).
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners February 2025 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Feb Tue
Feb 04 Tuesday Group Run- Thumb Butte Loop- Cindy leading! Thumb Butte loop (326, 392, 367): 4.7 miles, 784 ft of elevation gain. Meet at the Thumb Butte Parking lot (paid parking or national parks pass). This is a no-drop group run, and we will stop at each intersection to allow everyone to catch up (physically and socially, LOL) before continuing the run.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners January 2025 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Jan Thu
Jan 02 Thursday Social Run It's possible nobody will show up, but there is a pretty solid group of non-facebook users attending. Meet in front of La Planchada at 5:30, run/walk with a group, or at your own pace.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners December 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Dec Tue
Dec 03 Tuesday Group Run -Valley of Lights! ***Jason leading!*** For this Tuesday group run we will run through the Valley of Lights and then onto the Fain Trails! Expect around 4 miles. This is a no-drop group run (we will stop at every intersection and wait for everyone to catch up).
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners November 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Nov Tue
Nov 05 Tuesday Group Run- Williamson Valley ***Jason leading!*** We will meet at the Williamson Valley trailhead at 5:30pm. This run will be different than the last time we met at this location - we will do an out and back toward Baby Granite Mtn.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners October 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Oct Tue
Oct 08 Tuesday Group Run- White Spar PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION. We will meet at the White Spar Parking lot (link here [https://goo.gl/maps/nX4JGH75u4T7R15g7](https://goo.gl/maps/nX4JGH75u4T7R15g7)) at 5:30 PM. Expect 4-6 miles. No drop run (we stop for everyone at every intersection).
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners September 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Sep Tue
Sep 03 Tuesday Group Run- Green Gulch We will meet at the Green Gulch Trailhead in Dewey at 5:30pm. Address: 9045 Newtown Ave, Dewey, AZ 86327
34.531585151792555, -112.31007347301593
No-drop group run of approximately 5 miles. No-drop means we stop at every intersection and wait for everyone (no pressure for speed!
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners August 2024 Just wanted to remind everybody that there's a great local group that does a lot of maintenance on the trails we love, consider supporting or joining Yavapai Trails Association Aug Thu
Aug 01 Thursday Night Social Run/Walk Meet at LaPlanchada 217 W Gurley. Walk or run 2-4 miles to Granite Park and back. Hang around afterwards to socialize.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners July 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Jul Tue
Jul 02 Tuesday Group Run- Little Granite Mtn- Sean leading! Will meet at Little Granite Mtn trailhead (TR 37) for an out and back run. Sean is leading! PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION. We will meet at the Little Granite Mtn trailhead along Iron Springs Rd.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners June 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Jun Sat
Jun 01 SATR PATR - White Rock Parking Lot off of Thumb Butte Road 8-10 beautiful miles! Not too fast, not too slow, just right!
Dana will be running 20-24 (that's where the "not too fast" part comes into play) and would love company!
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners May 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! May Mon
May 06 Cocodona Cocodona250 - May 6-11, 2024
🏜️ The original epic of the Cocodona name starts at Rock Springs Cafe in Black Canyon City and traverses a continuous 250 mile point-to-point route, ending in Flagstaff, Arizona. Arguably the most diverse 200+miler on the map.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners April 2024 Big News!!! Thursday social runs are back! See you there! please note: today's run was moved Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Apr Tue
Apr 02 Location changed*** Tuesday Group Run -Constellation Trail++ We are planning to do the Constellation Trail and then a second loop to make it around 5 mi total.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners March 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! Mar Tue
Mar 05 Tuesday Group Run- White Spar PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION. We will meet at the White Spar Parking lot (link here [https://goo.gl/maps/nX4JGH75u4T7R15g7](https://goo.gl/maps/nX4JGH75u4T7R15g7)) at 5:30 PM. Expect 4-6 miles. No drop run (we stop for everyone at every intersection).
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners February 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! 2024-02-03T09:00:00Z - COCODONA FatAss #1 Meet at Deer Pass TH right off Hwy 89 (Aid Station #13 of the course) ... we'll run to Sedona Aid Station (~15 miles) ... Parker will provide aid at the road crossing near the high school (a water stop on the course) .
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners January 2024 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! 2024-01-02T17:30:00Z - Tuesday Group Run- Willow Lake-Brandon leading! PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION. We will meet at the Dog Park parking lot (link here [https://goo.gl/maps/ZCLmd4fQPGkyXCHP7](https://goo.gl/maps/ZCLmd4fQPGkyXCHP7)) at 5:30pm. Plan for 5 miles(ish).
No drop run (we stop for everyone at every intersection).
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners December 2023 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! 2023-12-02 08:00 - Trail 264 Extention Join the Yavapai Trails Association on Saturday December 2nd at 8:00 am to work on the Trail 264 extension project from Copper Basin Rd Dispersed Site #6.
Plan for the day: After a safety discussion at 8:00 AM, we’ll hike out and get started building trail.
PATR Chatter The monthly newsletter of the Prescott Area Trail Runners November 2023 Hope you find the newsletter useful, apologies for any beer related events that I've accidentally included! 2023-11-13 07:30 - Brownlow Mondays * moving to 7:30! Start the week off right 😊We’ll do the 10k loop; any pace or ability welcome, including hikers! Great training for December’s Santa Run 👊🏼 🎅🏼 2023-11-14 17:30 - Tuesday Group Run- White Spar-Jon leading!
The trials and tribulations of crewing and pacing “our runner” at the Bigfoot 200 (Noel) Our Bigfoot team consisted of “our runner” James Nalley, our tracker Parker Northrup, pacer Jessica Wilkes, crew/pacer Noel Kingston, crew/pacer Carol Northrup, and Carol’s blue Toyota Tacoma Dory. This would be James’s first 200-mile race as a runner and we were all committed to helping him successfully complete the race. However, this report is not about him – it is from the perspective of his crew and pacers.
Cocodona 250 Race Report
Everyone has their own “why” when tackling such a massive endeavor. Why run/walk/hike/cry/hurt across 250 miles of Arizona?
I can’t remember where I heard it, but it stuck with me; to see what happens.
If you want the short version, here’s what happened; I realized at a new, deep and profound level I am known and loved. By God, through a whole host of wonderful people.
it’s a little personal but I process as I write and journaling about these races helps me collect my thoughts and brings closure
Picture a group floating down the Salt River on a beautiful August day, enjoying the chill day, sun, and water and someone says “so there’s this race thru Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, prettiest ultra in the country, they open up areas that are off limits to tourists just for this race, it sells out super fast, Jasmine you just ran 27 miles on Spruce Mtn you’re totally ready for an ultra, you guys should do it!
The race started off COLD 🥶 we were all huddling around the outdoor heaters that really didn’t help because of the cutting wind. I saw Joe Weightman for two seconds and then as soon as the race started he was gone and I never saw him again (felt just like a normal PATR run with this fast ones just…gone). He finished his first ultra today!!
One of the buses with runners was late so they delayed the start by 15 minutes… longest 15 min of my life given the freezing cold… The first three miles were NOT cool- I was questioning the recommendation to run this particular race.
I’m going to try to keep this shorter than my typical race reports, since my reports tend to turn into ultras themselves!
This was probably my favorite race I’ve ever done, for a number of reasons. For one, I just love the Black Canyon Trail, and to be able to run the majority of it in one chunk is something that has appealed to me for a long time. I’ve had my eye on this race for a number of years now… in 2020, I didn’t feel like I was quite ready for it.
For those that do not know it, I have another life as an event crew member with Aravaipa Running and this last weekend I helped host the Black Canyon Ultras 100K on Saturday and 60K on Sunday.
I camp at Bumblebee Ranch and then work together with a large Aravaipa team to put on the race. There were approximately 1000 runners, their crew, pacers and family counting on our team to show them an amazing weekend.
Man Against Horse
2021-10-09
25 miles
I changed my morning plans several times, finally planning on getting there 30 minutes before the start, but I didn’t really give myself enough time to get ready and ended up pulling into the ranch with less than 15 minutes until the start. I didn’t know what to expect as far as parking, so I was pretty worried. There was almost no organization to the parking so, somehow, I ended up about 20 feet from the starting line!