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Come join us to run the FA50 2025. Traditionally run the first Saturday after Christmas.Run as far as your heart desires....:-)
This history is traced back to March 1997 ... an article in Ultrarunning Magazine, credit for the term “Fat Ass” goes to Joe Oakes of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1978, Oakes was scrambling to find a Western States-qualifying race. He wanted to run a 50-mile race, but the only event of that distance that he found was a seven-person relay race along Highway 1. The race organizers would not allow him to run the race solo, so he signed up as seven different runners: Joseph Oakes, Jay Oakes, J Oakes — you get the picture. He enjoyed his prank, and he knew his ultrarunnning friends would love it too. The following year, Oakes revised his epic race, calling it the “Recover from the Holidays Fat Ass 50,” staging it as an unofficial adventure run. Back then, opportunities for running in ultras were few and far between. This was Oakes’ way to give his ultrarunner friends a chance to enjoy a cool run and work off the consequences of their holiday eating.
Fat Ass runs are free, no-frills runs that are all about the run and the social aspect of running. The Fat Ass motto is “No fees, no awards, no aid, no wimps.
We meet in the lower parking lot closest to the trailhead.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pinckney State Recreation Area, Silver Lake Recreation Area, 2 Crooked Lake Trl, Pinckney, MI 48169, United States
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.
