Suffer Better 9th Annual Fall Trail Runs

🏞️ Race Overview

We are stoked to once again invite you all to come run with us at Staunton State Park, off of Highway 285 near Conifer, CO, on October 11, 2025. We are even more stoked to again offer our special 25K Fishslappers edition (yes, it involves catching a fish!) and a new 5K run to our 50 and 25K race day offerings. Whichever distance you choose, rest assured you will be running on some of CO's best trails - lovely, flowing, and runnable single track - with some decent vert thrown in to keep you at least a little honest. And you will be helping raise real money to protect and preserve our exceedingly precious public lands and waters. As always, our Fall runs are a celebration of our public lands and waters, and a fundraiser for the good work of Conservation CO and Running Rivers to protect and preserve them.

📅 Race Details

• Race Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
• Start Time:
  • 50K: 7:30 am
  • 25K: 8:30 am
  • 5K: 10:00 am
• Starting Location: All races start from the Mason Creek parking lot.

🚰 Hydration & Aid Stations

We are a bottle-free event, so please bring your own bottles. We'll have both water and gNarly hydration drink at our several aid stations, so you can fill up along the way.

• Volunteers: Aid station volunteers can assist you with hydration and food.
• Course Maps: Course maps for each distance are available on the website.
• Trail Map: You can also download the Staunton Trail Map here.
• Aid Stations: We'll have 3 stations: some you'll hit 2X.

💲 Race Entry Fees

• 25K: $75 (includes regular run and Fishslappers division)
• 50K: $110 (early bird pricing available for $60)
• 5K: Just $25

🌍 Fundraising Efforts

Like last year, this year's events are both crazy fun and challenging trail races, and a major part of our effort to raise awareness and funds to preserve and protect our precious public lands and waters. We value these special outdoor places and believe strongly that as outdoor athletes we have an obligation to ensure their protection. We ask/encourage/beg each of our runners to become fundraisers themselves and we have a special award for the runner who has raised the most $ by race day. With our new Fishslappers Division, we are also raising money for Running Rivers, so check them out too. Runners also have the ability to enlist their friends and colleagues to help raise funds for Conservation CO and Running Rivers. The more we all raise, the more good we do.

📏 Distance Note

A note about distances: We are using the distances laid out by the park, but you should know that we've done each of these routes multiple times, using a variety of standard measuring tools and apps (Suunto, Apple, Strava) and we have yet to record the same distance twice! So, for the record, the stated distances are effectively 5K-ish, 25K-ish, and 50K-ish.