There’s No Place Like McNaughton!

The 2009 McNaughton Park Trails Runs will be held on
April 10-12, 2009, at beautiful McNaughton Park in Pekin, IL.

The McNaughton Park Trail Runs are firmly established as a premier ultra event ...
the 2008 run had in excess of 200 entries from all over the United States and Europe.

Andy Weinberg, race director, always pushing the limits himself (ask him about his double ironman finish) is allowing runners to push themselves again this year. Did you tackle the 30 mile race at McNaughton in the past and thought to yourself that you could move up to the 50? Let’s hope so, because 50 miles is the shortest race available! You’ve done a 50 ... is there a 100 miler in you? We’ve got the only 100-mile trail run in Illinois. And for you 100-mile studs ... how about testing yourself with the only 150 mile ultra race in the United States?!



Do you think Illinois is all flat cornfields? Wise ultra-runners will get some serious hill training in before coming to McNaughton Park! We don’t have mountains in Illinois ... just a few rolling hills with elevator shaft downhills guaranteed to warm your quads on a chilly April evening. Here’s how one satisfied customer described the terrain: ‘I now know why Illinois is so flat. They took all the hills that are supposed to be there and put them ALL into one spot in Pekin, IL ... and called it ‘McNaughton Park’.”

How about the view? One of our 2005 participants described it this way: “It’s one of the most scenic courses I know: Mostly singletrack, forest with some meadows, hills with beautiful valleys in between. Lots of flowers and wildlife. At dawn, when I came to the 3rd creek crossing, thousands of birds were singing, frogs were ‘talking’ everywhere, wild geese above me were chatting, and several Whitetail Deer crossing the trail.”

Andy is a runner’s race director and he only gets the best race goodies, door prizes, technical shirts, vests and jackets, etc.