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2025 Run Rabbit Run - Race Report

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Run Rabbit Run - Sept. 12, 2025 Two walls of screaming and cheering surround hundreds of runners, a wave of sound pushing us forward from the start and into the unknown. Within minutes, the sound of cheering dissipates and is replaced by the steady hum of footsteps, clacking poles, and breathing. It’s a comforting, harmonious sound. We’re one band, playing from the same sheet of music. Our music is interrupted only by the occasional yell from passengers in the gondola overhead, clapping and shouting encouragement at an endless line of runners, marching like ants straight up a ski mountain. This is the 2025 edition of Run Rabbit Run, a 100-mile ultramarathon starting in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This footrace measures about 102 miles with 18,000 ft. of climbing at an average elevation around 10-12k ft. Although this race doesn’t have the glitz and glam of some others, it’s still a classic on the ultra race calendar. Run Rabbit Run is widely known for two things; the division between ...