Location:
The event will start at Beals Point.
Date & time:
September 14, 2019
Race will start promptly at 10:00am (Relay and Individual)
Runners briefing / Packet pickup:
Joins us the day before race day for optional packet pickup The Aid Station - Trails & Ales. Same day packet pick up will also be available at the start area.
A lot of information will be shared during the runners briefing. We would like to minimize any doubts/concerns about the race course, aid stations, dropbags, and rules.
Running the relay? – Bring the whole team!
Google maps to the Aid Station
Google maps to start Beals Point, Granite Bay, CA 95746
Schedule of events:
- Packet pick up from 4:00 – 6:00pm (Sept 13) at Auburn Aid Station
- Race start at 10:00am (Sept 14)
- Awards ceremony 12pm at Claimstake Brewery (Sept 15)
Information:
Folsom Lake Ultra Trail (FLUT) is the only event to run all the way around Folsom Lake, to our knowledge, this may be the only race covering this length of distance while circumnavigating a body of water in California.
FLUT has a total of 12 aid stations that are packed with all kinds of food that ultra-runners need, water, electrolyte, boiled potatoes, chips, candy, gel packets, salt pills, and the later aid stations will have wholefoods such as soup, quesadillas, etc.
This race changes directions every year, 2015 was a counterclockwise course, 2016 will be clockwise course, and now we are back the original course, counterclockwise course. The course is a mix of trails and roads (85% Trail, 15% Road).
In this page you will find all the information related to the relay race.
Rules:
- A relay team must complete the full course to be considered finishers.
- If a leg of the relay is not completed, then the team is considered as DNF (did not finish).
- If a runner of a team cannot complete his/her leg, only a runner of the same team can pick up the remainder miles of the leg.
- Runners are responsible for their transportation after each leg.
- Finishers swag will be given as the last runner crosses the finish line. (Runners are encouraged to join their team member on the last .25 mile)
- Relay runners cannot have a pacer at any point of the race.
- Relay runners cannot have drop-bags.
Reminders:
- Runners starting a new leg; do not forget to give your vehicle key to the runner finishing the leg.
- Runners finishing a leg; do not forget to leave a change of clothes in your vehicle.
Click here to read the race report from the 2015 1st place overall, Jean Pommier.
Click here to see all the pictures from our 2015 event.
Relay team:
When a runner register as a relay team captain, this runner will receive an email for the other team members to finish their registration.
Only one runner at a time. This event consist of three legs:
1st leg – From Beals Point to Salmon Falls AS (21.3 miles**)
2nd leg – From Salmon Falls AS to Gate 142 AS (24.5 miles**)
3rd leg – From Gate 142 AS to Beals Point (21.5 miles**)
**All distances are approximate. This course was mapped using a Garmin 920, Garmin 220, and Suunto Ambit 3, we got a different distance every time**
Each member of a relay finishers team will receive a long sleeve finisher’s T (Relay).
COURSE PICTURES
