Mountain Lakes 100 2025 Race Report
In February of 2024, I ran the Black Canyon 100K just north of Phoenix, AZ. The race is a point-to-point that runs a well established trail through the aptly named Black Canyon. I took a shuttle to the start line, where I sat next to a man that introduced himself and shared that he was from Oregon. We swapped stories on the ride up and he had a lot of great things to say about the Mountain Lakes 100 which ran on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), south of Mount Hood. A year later when I was looking for races for 2025, Mountain Lakes quickly became a front runner. My ideal race would be in September to give me the summer to train, not be at high elevation, and I wanted something easy to get to from Denver. This race checked a lot of boxes, so I signed up and started training back in March. Shortly after that, my wife managed to plan a family reunion in Oregon. This meant the kids would be coming along and I'd run the race the first weekend and we would meet the rest of her family in H...
