Ultra Records


finish of the ’04 divide race

It is our intent that this page be used to chronicle the fast-changing world of ultra-endurance mountain bike racing. Records are broken and courses change–as a result this page will be in a constant state of flux.

Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Records

2,780 mile US + CAN Records
Male Mike Hall (2016) 13:22:51
Female Lael Wilcox (2015) 15:10:59

Arizona Trail Race (800) Records
Male Alex Schultz (2023) 9:05:43
Female Katya Rakhmatulina (2023) 9:19:52

Arizona Trail Race (750) Records
Male Kurt Refsnider (2018) 6:06:06
Female Elizabeth Sampey (2019) 9:11:44

Colorado Trail Race Records
Male Timon Fish (2023) 3:16:13
Female Katya Rakhmatulina (2023) 5:01:28

Bikepacking Triple Crown
AZT750, Tour Divide and CTR in one year — see Triple Crown of Bikepacking
Male Jay Petervary (2015) 27:18:33
Female Katya Rakhmatulina (2023) 32:06:33

Iditarod Trail Invitational Records
350-mile race to McGrath
Male John Lackey (2015) 1:18:32
Female Heather Best (2015) 2:08:09

1,100-mile race to Nome
Male Jeff Oatley (2014) 10:02:53 (Northern Route)
Female Jill Homer (2016) 17:03:46 (Northern Route)
Male Jay Petervary (2011) 17:06:00 (Southern Route)
Female Tracey Petervary (2011) 18:06:30 (Southern Route)

Arizona Trail 300 Records
Male Timon Fish (2021) 1:14:52
Female Kaitlyn Boyle (2018) 2:02:57

Grand Loop Records
Male Kurt Refsnider (2020) 02:05:36
Female Lynda Wallenfels / Cat Morrison (2012) 03:11:33

Stage Coach 400 Records
Male Xavier Ernesto Chiriboga (2022) 37hr 21min
Female Scotti Lechuga (2022) 51hr 05min

Coconino Loop Records
Thru-ride
Male Kurt Refsnider (2013) 1:06:52
Female Kaitlyn Boyle (2017) 1:07:22

Self Supported Stage Race
Male Matt Schiff (2013) 1:00:48
Female Lynda Wallenfels (2012) 1:11:57

Trans North Georgia
Male Eddie O’Dea (2013) 1:14:57
Female Lisa Randall (2013) 1:22:10

Allegheny Mountains Loop
Male Taylor Kruse / Chris Arndt (2013) 1:14:18
Female Ruth Cunningham (2013) 2:04:41

Cross Florida Individual Time Trial
Male: Bryan Frantz (2014) 21:25:00
Female: Ruth Cunningham (2012) 25:56:00

Huracan 300
Male Eddie O’Dea (2015) 1:06:39
Female Jennifer Moos (2015) 1:12:05

Caldera 250/500
500 Male Arthur Kopatsy (2015) 5:04:27
250 Male Keith Richards-Dinger (2015) 2:14:04

Smoke ‘n Fire 400
Male Sam Harney (2015) 1:18:56
Female Rebecca Rusch (2015) 1:20:06

Dixie 200
Male Steve Cook (2014) 1:13:40
Female N/A

Kokopelli Trail
Male Kurt Refsnider (2020) 10:56
Female Rebecca Rusch (2013) 13:32

Freedom Challenge Race across South Africa
Male: Martin Dreyer (2017) 10:06:40
Female: Jeannie Dreyer (2013) 12:05:55

Hunter Trail Race 323 km (OZ)
Male: Adam Kelly (2012)  1:1:40
Female: Kim McFadden (2011) 2:4:30

Hunter Trail Race 750 km (OZ)
Male: Steve Timbrell (2013)  4:6:38
Female: 

Great Dividing Trail (OZ)
Male: Liam Crowley (2013)
Female: Courtney Shinn (2013) 1:19:49


If you have a race record that you feel should be listed here, please send an email with all pertinent info to smorris@bikepacking.net. If you would like to report a new record broken or established (that is already listed here), or have a correction, please comment below. Thanks.

Comments (86)

Tracey PetervaryMarch 30th, 2010 at 11:50 am

New female Iditarod Trail Invitational record 2010 Tracey Petervary 4days, 18 hrs, 53 minutes to McGrath
New female ITI record 2010 to Nome Tracey Petervary 18 days 6 hrs

T-RaceApril 4th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Tour Divide 09 Tandem Record Jay and Tracey Petervary 18 days 13 hrs 50 mins

US + Canada

matthew leeApril 8th, 2010 at 9:15 am

he, he…look who’s thinking about tour divide records this spring. i smell a solo assault on female TD record coming on.

ScottMMay 10th, 2010 at 11:34 am

Added new AZT records, both by Kurt Refsnider.

AZT 300 – 02:08:45
AZT 750 – 07:06:35

chadMay 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pm

We need to team up to start knocking some of these big names off…let’s start with Dave Harris’ record. He is up here a lot 🙂

matthew leeMay 11th, 2010 at 8:12 pm

yep, kurt’s azt records are quite impressive.

chad, tour divide record is somewhat weak (by circumstance). now is the time to take its fireroads by storm! before you become any more agoraphobic or jaded by singletrack 😉

ScottMJune 13th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Added new Coconino Loop record, set by Chad Brown.

Chad Brown (2010) 1:15:02

ScottMOctober 18th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Added Trans North Georgia records, both male and female — Eddie O’Dea and Cricket Butler.

Also, improved stage race time for the Coconino Loop by Scott Morris.

ScottMOctober 19th, 2010 at 9:13 am

Added new Cross Florida Time Trial records, male and female (Rob Roberts and Lynne Daniels).

SeanMarch 7th, 2011 at 8:56 pm

Louise Kobin – 2011 Iditarod Trail Invitational 350 mile women’s record – 3 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes

ScottMMarch 8th, 2011 at 9:34 am

Thanks Sean. Updated women’s ITI 350 record!

ScottMMarch 10th, 2011 at 5:00 pm

Added new male and female records for the Huracan 300 in Florida. Rob Roberts and Cricket Butler!

ScottMApril 20th, 2011 at 3:32 pm

Added new female record for the AZT 300 – Lynda Wallenfels.

ScottMMay 24th, 2011 at 10:00 am

Added new Kokopelli Trail record by Jesse Jakomait.

Big PoppaJuly 14th, 2011 at 1:51 pm

What is the record for the Northbound Divide? Scott, I think you hold it but I can’t find the time anywhere.

ScottMSeptember 6th, 2011 at 10:04 am

Added Eszter Horanyi’s new CTR course record, taking a day off her old record.

@Big Poppa – it was 38 days, and not a real record at that. Paul Attalla rode the route in less than half of that this year. I suppose we should record that here, as well.

ScottMSeptember 6th, 2011 at 1:12 pm

Added new TNGA course record by Eddie O’Dea — 7 hours faster and self-supported (previous record was with support).

ScottMSeptember 14th, 2011 at 6:44 pm

Added new full GDMBR record – Jay Petervary (2011) 17:09:01.

ScottMOctober 13th, 2011 at 2:43 pm

Added new Coconino Loop thru-ride record, by Aaron Gulley – 1:11:33.

ScottMOctober 14th, 2011 at 2:09 pm

Added new Coconino Loop (Stage Race) record by Sharon Sell – 1:15:22.

JayPOctober 16th, 2011 at 2:41 pm

Iditarod Trail Invitational

Tracey P – 18d 6h 30m, southern route 2011(only woman to complete south)
JayP – 17d 6h, sothern route 2011

uummm, is there an official self-supported across america record…..

beardogMay 20th, 2012 at 8:18 pm

why not add Jay P’s solo self support RAAM record from 2011 to the list. I am planning a loosely organized self supported RAAM route race for 6/2013 for those interested in going after Jay’s record (or setting the woman’s self support record)

ScottMJune 5th, 2012 at 1:15 pm

Updated AZT 300 and 750 records based on the 2012 race.

Also new female joint record for the Grand Loop.

Updated Iditarod southern route to Nome, as in JayP’s post.

I think self supported RAAM does make sense here. Great idea on a race on the route.

MattJune 9th, 2012 at 5:37 am

Iditarod has two northern records (bottom should be southern?)

Also Huracan 300 had new records this year:

Male Shey Lindner 23:59
Female Kari Lindner 1:11:54
SS Vonnie McClung 2:06:20

Stijn LaenenJune 12th, 2012 at 1:00 am

Some Freedom Challenge record updates from the 2011 race:

Male: Alex Harris (2011) 12:15:30
Female: Tatum Prins (2011): 19:07:55

The 2012 race is underway with a strong field gunning for these records!

ScottMJune 13th, 2012 at 2:49 pm

Thank you, Matt & Stijn. Updates made (no SS records are kept here — a bike is a bike).

Stijn LaenenJuly 5th, 2012 at 3:28 am

Hi Scott – the Freedom Challenge Men’s record was smashed this year with the 2 top riders, Martin Dreyer & Alex Harris racing hard all the way to the line. New record below:

Male: Martin Dreyer (2012) 10:16:40

Alex finished just 7h behind Martin, also with a sub-11 day time (by 3 mins!).

ScottMJuly 25th, 2012 at 11:13 am

Updated new Tour Divide records, both men’s and women’s, Ollie Whalley and Eszter Horanyi, both set during the 2012 event. Also eliminated the US Only GDMBR record, since those were both shattered by Whalley and Horanyi — they hold both records.

Also — thanks Stijn. Updated the Freedom Challenge Men’s record.

BrendanSeptember 10th, 2012 at 7:43 am

Stagecoach 400
Jay Petervary (2012) 2:01:58
Eszter Horanyi (2012) 2:06:40

ScottMSeptember 10th, 2012 at 4:49 pm

Added Stagecoach 400 records for the first year event. Thanks Brendan.

Updated CTR record for Jefe Branham’s sub-4-day finish.

ScottMSeptember 17th, 2012 at 4:20 pm

New Tour Divide record by Jay Petervary as an ITT, taking a big chunk out of Ollie Whalley’s previous best.

ruthcSeptember 19th, 2012 at 5:00 pm

trans north georgia
female Ruth Cunningham (2012) 3:04:45

ScottMSeptember 20th, 2012 at 11:32 am

Thanks – new female TNGA record posted.

SheySeptember 21st, 2012 at 4:28 am

Trans North Georgia
3 way tie for record
(2012) Jason Murrell 2:00:34
(2012) Shey Lindner 2:00:34
(2011) Eddie O’Dea 2:00:34

ScottMSeptember 21st, 2012 at 11:47 am

Updated TNGA shared record. Thanks Shey.

ruth cunninghamOctober 2nd, 2012 at 5:32 pm

really sorry, but there was a mistake on my TNGA time, it is fixed at the website now.
http://www.firstworks.com/tnga/results.html
it was really 3:03:45, one hour less than the initial results.
thanks, ruth.

ScottMOctober 9th, 2012 at 7:18 pm

Fixed Ruth’s time, as mentioned above.

Added new Coconino Stage Race record by Lynda Wallenfels, during the 2012 event.

ScottMOctober 31st, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Added new records for the Allegheny Mountains loop from the 2012 inaugural year of the event.

ScottMMarch 2nd, 2013 at 7:10 pm

Added new Iditarod Trail Invitational 350 (McGrath) records, both women’s and men’s, set in the 2013 event. By Eszter Horanyi and Jay Petervary.

ruthMarch 28th, 2013 at 11:56 am

hi, karlos approved this update (the route had significant additional mileage to the previous route and intended to remain as is for a bit, although eventually more mileage may be added):
Cross Florida ITT (2012)
Male: Markley Anderson 20:59:30
Female: Ruth Cunningham 25:56:00
thanks!

ScottMApril 24th, 2013 at 5:25 pm

Changed CFITT records to the new course, as indicated by ruth in the above post.

Also added new AZT 300 records, by Aaron Gulley and Eszter Horanyi, both from the 2013 event.

MollyMay 7th, 2013 at 9:28 pm

New female record on the Kokopelli trail 13:32:46 by Rebecca Ruschhttp://www.rebeccarusch.com/red-bull-rusch-hour-done/

ScottMMay 8th, 2013 at 2:37 pm

Added new record Stagecoach 400 record by Eddie O’dea, from the 2013 event.
Added new Kokopelli record, as noted by Molly above.

ScottMMay 15th, 2013 at 8:27 am

Added new AZT 300 record, ITT by Kurt Refsnider, lowering Aaron Gulley’s 2013 time by ~1.5 hours.

Stijn LaenenJune 30th, 2013 at 12:08 pm

Heya Scott – me again 🙂 A new Freedom Challenge record for this page:

Female: Jeannie Dreyer (2013) 12:05:55

Martin Dreyer (the current men’s record holder) raced with his wife Jeannie this year as a honeymoon of sorts. The result was a smashing of the women’s record by over 7 days!

ScottMOctober 7th, 2013 at 11:27 am

Added new Coconino Loop thru-ride records, both male and female, set as concurrent time trials. Kurt Refsnider and Kaitlyn Boyle.

ScottMOctober 15th, 2013 at 5:59 pm

Added new Coconino Loop Stage Race record, set by Matt Schiff during the 2013 event.

ruth cunninghamJanuary 20th, 2014 at 2:32 pm

hi scott,
I re did the AML at the group start for 10/2013. there were no other women and I improved my 2012 listed time 2:15:29 to a 2:04:41.
thanks, ruth.

ScottMJanuary 20th, 2014 at 8:12 pm

Nice. Updated Ruth’s time, new record in the 2013 AML.

SeanMarch 5th, 2014 at 7:20 pm

New ITI records:
McGrath
Kevin Breitenbach 2d 4h 43m
Heather Best 2d 14h 13m

Nome
Jeff Oatley 10d 2h 53m

ScottMMarch 13th, 2014 at 7:47 am

Added new Iditarod records, both distances and both male and female. All records broken, including the most longstanding one on this page — Mike Curiak’s overall record to Nome, which held since 2000.

In addition to the three listed above by Sean, also new women’s overall and Northern record by Ausilia Vistarini.

Kevin GMarch 19th, 2014 at 12:49 pm

How about a “masters” category?

PkApril 18th, 2014 at 1:15 pm

Hi Scott, what is an offical NoBo Record at the moment for Tour Divide? thanks.

ScottMApril 19th, 2014 at 3:53 pm

Paul Attalla has the NoBo record… not sure on the time, 17ish days? Would have to dig it up.

Kevin G– sorry, I don’t have the resources to maintain separate masters (or singlespeed, etc) records.

Chris ArndtJuly 9th, 2014 at 8:59 am

Scott,

Taylor Kruse and I (Chris Arndt) broke our 2012 AML co-record in 2013 with a time of 1:14:18.

ScottMNovember 20th, 2014 at 8:44 am

Added new section for the “Triple Crown of Bikepacking” with Kurt Sandiforth as the current record holder, set in the 2012 season. No female finishers, yet.

See: http://www.bikepacking.net/triple-crown-of-bikepacking/ for details on both the racing and touring triple crown of bikepacking.

Also updated the improved AML record (same holders) as noted by Chris Arndt just above.

ScottMDecember 9th, 2014 at 8:38 pm

Added new CFITT record by Bryan Frantz, of 21:25.

ScottMFebruary 13th, 2015 at 10:07 am

Added new record for the Dixie 200 by Steve cook in 2014. The Dixie route by Dave Harris has been raced for a number of years, but only now added to this page for record keeping.

ScottMApril 17th, 2015 at 9:31 am

Added new AZTR 750 record – Alice Drobna – 9:13:53, set during the 2015 event. She takes a huge chunk out of the previous record.

Bethany DunneMay 15th, 2015 at 12:25 am

Should think about adding NZ’s Kiwi Brevet and Great Southern Brevet to the list, though they change direction and alternate years so much it might be too hard.

Eddie OJuly 28th, 2015 at 12:21 pm

Trans North Georgia
Male: Eddie O’Dea (2013) 1:14:57
Female: Lisa Randall (2013) 1:22:10

Hurican 300
Male: Eddie O’Dea (2015) 1:06:39
Female: Jennifer Moos (2015) 1:12:05

ScottMAugust 7th, 2015 at 12:16 pm

Lots of updates, lots of fast racing this season!

Added new Tour Divide records, both male and female, from the 2015 event. Congrats to Josh Kato and Lael Wilcox.

Added new Men’s Colorado Trail Race record by Jesse Jakomait.

Added new Triple Crown challenge records, both male and female, Jay Petervary and Alice Drobna respectively. Alice is also the first woman to complete the challenge, also first singlespeeder.

Updated new Huracan and Trans North Georgia records, as noted by Eddie O above.

ScottMAugust 27th, 2015 at 9:02 am

Updated Tour Divide record, by Lael Wilcox, of 15:10:59 set as an August ITT. She smashed her own record, which was still only weeks old.

ScottMOctober 6th, 2015 at 5:14 pm

Added new records for two new events:

1 – Smoke ‘n Fire 400 with both male and female records set in 2015 (Sam Harney and Rebecca Rusch).
2 – Caldera 250/500 – with men’s records in both distances, both set in 2015, the inaugural year of the event.

ScottMJuly 1st, 2016 at 8:23 pm

Mid-2016 season update:

– New overall and north route record on the 1000 mile Iditarod trail by Jill Homer.
– New AZTR750 record set by Neil Beltchenko during the event, besting Kurt Refsnider’s 2010 time
– New Tour Divide men’s record set by Mike Hall during the Grand Depart, breaking the 14 day barrier.

ScottMJuly 21st, 2017 at 4:19 pm

Added, much belatedly, but just in time for 2017’s event:

– New Colorado Trail Race record set by Neil Beltchenko, as an ITT, Denver to Durango, lowering Jesse’s time by an hour.

LiehannJuly 24th, 2017 at 4:52 pm

Martin Dreyer smashed his Freedom Challenge record this year (2017) finishing in 10d06h40m.

ScottMJune 18th, 2018 at 12:43 pm

Thanks Liehann.

Added new AZTR records — 750 for Kurt Refsnider and 300 for Kaitlyn Boyle, both set during the 2018 event.

Kurt RefsniderJune 26th, 2019 at 8:40 am

New Kokopelli Trail FKT on June 23, 2019 – 11:52 in the Moab to Loma direction. It wasn’t quite a solstice ride, but it was dang close!

I also noticed that the Coconino Loop women’s record should be updated to 1:07:22, still by Kait Boyle. I think that was in 2017?

ScottMJune 26th, 2019 at 9:44 am

Thanks Kurt.

Added new men’s Kokopelli record, and an improved women’s Coconino record. Koko and Coco!

Elizabeth SampeyJune 26th, 2019 at 3:14 pm

New AZT750 women’s record 2019 — 9:11:44. 🙂

ScottMJune 26th, 2019 at 6:16 pm

Thanks Liz.

Added new AZTR 750 women’s record, set during the 2019 event.

RyleeFebruary 3rd, 2020 at 10:03 pm

For the Caldera 250-

Wilda Birdie Yellowbus (aka Rylee Sweeney) finished the Southern 250 on Monday 8/5 at 9:14 PM, for a finishing time of 2 days, 15 hours, and 58 mins. She’s the first female finisher of the southern 250, and was only a little over an hour off the S250 CR

Andrew SuzukiJune 10th, 2020 at 7:47 am

Hi Scott,
The Kokopelli Trail FKT should be updated. Lachlan Morton, 11:14
https://www.strava.com/activities/3538169211

ScottMJuly 2nd, 2020 at 8:06 am

Thanks Andrew.

Added new Kokopelli Trail record by Lachlan Morton.

Kurt Refsnider lost one record but gained another:

Added new Grand Loop men’s record by Kurt Refsnider, finally breaking a 10+ year record held by Dave Harris.

John SchillingJuly 25th, 2020 at 10:53 pm

Scott,
Looks like Kurt’s year for the Grand Loop FKT was truncated.

ScottMJanuary 12th, 2021 at 12:30 pm

Thanks, John. Fixed.

Added Kurt Refsnider’s new Kokopelli time, taking the record back from Lachland Morton, who did not hold it long.

mark cunnaneJanuary 19th, 2022 at 8:52 am

Hello
Iam looking for tour divide records for +60 finishers,i have seen them for last 10yrs,but cannot get results beyond that,if anyone has these or knows of finishers,and I am sure people would be interested in +50 and +40
Thnx
mark

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Meg KnobelApril 1st, 2022 at 1:06 pm

New fastest times for the Stagecoach400! (2022)

Mens: Xavier Ernesto Chiriboga 37hr 21min
Womens: Scotti Lechuga 51hr 05min

ScottMMay 15th, 2022 at 1:08 pm

Thanks, Meg.

Updated men and women’s records in the Stagecoach 400, both breaking longstanding records held by Eszter Horanyi and Eddie O’dea.

Also updated AZT 300 men’s record by Timon Fish, last year in an ITT. Timon smashed the previous best time held by Kurt Refsnider and lowered the time beyond what I thought possible on that route.

Also added a new section for AZT 800 records, both set during the 2021 event last fall. This is a new route so we will hold onto the 750 records on this page for now as well.

ScottMAugust 9th, 2023 at 8:25 am

Added new CTR record, set eastbound by Timon Fish in 2023, as an ITT. So fast.

ScottMAugust 23rd, 2023 at 1:25 pm

Added new CTR record, set eastbound by Katya Rakhmatulina in 2023, during the Grand Depart!

John SchillingNovember 14th, 2023 at 1:56 pm

Scott,
Some AZTR Records to update:
AZT800
Men: Alex Schultz – 9:05:43 (2023)
Women: Katya Rakhmatulina – 9:19:52 (2023)

Men SS: Jefe Branham – 10:00:09 (2022)
Women SS: Alexandera Houchin – 10:13:36 (2023)

AZT300
Men SS: Jefe Branham – 2:01:24 (2021)
Women SS: Alexandera Houchin – 2:19:25 (2021)

ScottMNovember 14th, 2023 at 5:27 pm

Thanks, John!

Added new AZTR 800 records, both male and female, set during the 2023 fall Grand Depart. Those records now belong to Katya Rakhmatulina and Alex Schultz.

Also added new overall Triple Crown Challenge record set by Katya Rakhmatulina this year, 32 days, 6 hours and 33 minutes.

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