2025 Participant Wrap-up!

Another year of the St. Croix 40 Winter Ultra has wrapped! Every year, we spend Sunday and Monday resting our tired selves, and every year we’re surprised at just how chapped and dehydrated a person can get from doing no racing whatsoever. We’ve gone from feeling like burnt potato chips to feeling like slightly overcooked tater tots, which seems like a win. We hope your post-race recuperation has fully rehabbed you to the state of fluffy, delicious mashed potato!

Now that the metaphor has been truly overbaked, the real information:

Official results from the race are posted at UltraSignup.

If you want to keep up with things in the coming year you can subscribe to the blog on our website (link in footer of website), or track us on the social platforms: Facebook; Instagram; Threads; Bluesky, and YouTube

If you have photos and impressions you’d like to share, please let us know. You can tag us on the socials, and for longer-form writeups on blogs, send us a link and we’ll include it on our website. Race reports and volunteer reflections are invaluable for aspiring racers!

Every year has brought new challenges, and the one-two punch of planning for no snow on Wednesday, then getting more snow than we knew what to do with during the race was something… special? Memorable. The weather was, at turns, beautiful and hopeful, then quietly wicked. We’ve had so many different types of snow on the course, but this was the first year of fluffy, sugary snow.

The conditions led to the lowest finishing rate yet for our bike division, while the accumulation of snow left most of our foot participants unfazed. The same stuff that made misery for wheels was a blessing for anyone with a sled to pull! We had our youngest participants to date, both of whom went on to become our youngest finishers ever. It was beyond special to see these kiddos sharing an adventure like this with their grownups, and we hope it was but one of many!

Out there in the dark, without even the moon and stars for company, you all made discoveries. When push comes to shove, we all kinda do a little math. Maybe the equation playing in your mind involves risk, maybe it involves pride. Maybe it involves frozen water and the certainty of hot food right over there, in that warm building. You had the opportunity to decide what mattered most, in that very moment, in that very place.

Of all the things we take home with us from the race, the most significant one is perspective. Something is always a little bit different on Sunday than it was on Saturday, even for us as race directors. We hope that, whatever you found on the trail this weekend, whatever equation you set out to solve, it has given you perspective.

We’re so glad that you all joined us, and we hope you all learned something worth remembering. Next year’s edition will tentatively be on January 10th-11th, 2026, and we hope to see many of you again!

Onward to another year! May it be filled with warmth, courage, and just the right number of perspective-building experiences.

Cheers,

Jamison and Lisa