Rules
- The cutoff is midnight, almost 19 hours for all distances.
- Your assigned bib must be worn and visible on the front of your body. We don’t care if it’s on your shorts, shirt, or hat, but the aid station people need to be able to see it.
- There are intermediate cutoffs at certain aid stations. These will be enforced.
- You must follow the course markings. No short-cuts or cutting the course. If you go off course, you must return to the location where you went off course and resume from there in order to receive an official finish.
- Dogs: we are dog lovers, but this is not a good event to bring a dog to. Dogs on leash are welcome at the start/finish area, but we advise no dogs on the course other than the 6k, which has water.
- Poles are allowed. Your call.
- The aid station captain has the authority to pull you from the race should this be warranted for your health.
- Out of respect for your fellow runners, amplified sound (playing music outloud from your phone, for example) is not allowed on the course.
- Absolutely no littering
- In the words of Candice Alicia: “If you get lost, hurt, or die on the course it’s your own damn fault!”.
Drop Bags
We allow generous use of drop bags but ask that you go easy on the size and weight. The aid stations really are well supplied. Bags exceeding the size limits of 10 pounds or so, or 20″ x 20″ x 3″ will not be taken, nor will bags that we do not think can endure being loaded into a truck then driven up a bouncy four wheel drive road! (Yes, I’m talking about plastic shopping bags. C’mon, you’re an ultra runner and surely deserve a bag from High Desert Drop Bags, don’t you?!).
Drop Bags are allowed at Buttermilk, Edison, Intake 2, Highway 168 and Tungsten City aid stations.
Please bring your labeled with your name, phone number and bib number drop bag to the appropriate sign near the start line Saturday morning no later than 5:15. Your bag will wind up in the same spot at the end of the race.
Picking up your bag at the end of the race: it’s quite likely that bags from the later aid stations will not be back until those aid stations close, well into the evening.
Forgotten drop bags will be discarded, so please remember to pick up your drop bag after the race! This may mean coming by Sunday morning.
Pacers and Crew
One pacer per runner is allowed to join 100k runners at the Highway 168 Aid Station, which is mile 46. Pacers must check in with the aid station captain where they will receive a pacer bib and be registered as on the course. Pacers can get water from the aid stations but should come prepared with their own food items.
Crew:
The routes are difficult for crew to access due to the nature of the roads. Crew access is only allowed at Intake 2 (limited parking), Bishop Creek Lodge (very limited parking) and Highway 168. Each of these is adjacent to a busy road. Please observe applicable traffic laws as well as common decency when parking.
Schedule
Race Check in:
Friday May 17, 2024 at 12 noon – 7:00pm at the race start, and at the race start on the 18th from 4:30am – 5:00am.
Pre Race Briefing:
5pm at Millpond on Friday the 17th.
Race Start:
100k: 5:15am
50 miler: 5:20am
53k: 5:25am
20 miler: 5:30am
6k: 8:00am
Cut Off Times:
All distances must be finished by 12:00am on May 19th, giving nearly 19 hours to run your distance.
Bishop Ultras is produced and operated by the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association (ESIA) as a non-profit fund raiser. ESIA is a non profit. The races are conducted with permits from these land managers: Inyo National Forest, Bureau of Land Management, LADWP, Inyo County Parks, and Caltrans. In accordance with common decency and respect, Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, Bishop Ultras and ESIA are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.”