Perhaps the hardest part of running Western States is getting a spot on the starting line. You have made it past that hurdle. Congratulations. This is the first of several update emails you will receive from me leading up to the pre-race briefing on June 24 up at Olympic Valley. These will also be available on our website here. To stay up on the latest news you may also wish to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

You may or may not have noticed that we updated our performance, pacer, and crew rules in 2021. It was mostly cleaning up language and making the rules consistent as they had evolved and expanded over 45+ years of the race. Please be sure to read them and the whole Participant Guide.

If you are traveling from overseas be sure to check out the services we provide to international runners to help ease the extra stress of long travel, language and unfamiliarity. Please see our International Page for more details.

One of the best ways to become familiar with the course is to come to our training runs on Memorial Day Weekend (May 28-30). We cover the final 70 miles of the course over three days. These are not races but supported training runs. For more details see our website or go to ultrasignup to register.

Because we exhausted our wait list in 2021, we drew 75 names for the 2022 wait list. You can see the list here.

InsideTracker has partnered with us as our exclusive performance nutrition system sponsor. To support your training, they're offering exclusive pricing on a multi pack of Ultimate tests (up to ~50% off overall), plus a 1-on-1 coaching consult to help you know when to test and how to get the most out of InsideTracker and multiple virtual group consultations timed to critical points in WSER 2022 training for personalized feedback, open only to WSER runners, at a never-before-offered discount. Click here to learn more.