Date
Sat, 26 Jun 2027
Start
07:00
Venue
Highlands Community Center, 935 Country Club Drive, Tahoe City, CA 96145, United States
Tahoe City, Placer County
Countdown
June
A 50K loop out of Tahoe City that stays on the friendly side of ultra: modest climbing for the distance, five aid stations, and a small field of under a hundred runners.
Key facts
01Official finisher cut-off is 8.5 hours
02Five aid stations on the loop course
03Rankings by sex and age group
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The course
The route
Tahoe City
Distance50km
Total climb1,372m
StartElevation
0 kmDrag map to rotate47.6 km
Weather
Late-June, Tahoe City
27°CTypical high
11°CTypical low
0°CColdest in 20 years
5%Days with rain
Highs around 27°C and lows around 11°C, but it has dropped to 0°C. Rain on 5% of days. Pack for the cold end, not the average.
NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day
2026 results
Who finishes, and how
#RiderTimeAvg speed
01Briehana Morgan5:13:019.6 km/h
02Clara Thomas5:28:169.1 km/h
03Ana-Carolina Suchey5:34:349.0 km/h
30
Women finishers
6:44:45
Median time
7.4 km/h
Median speed
Women · 2026 results, as published by the organiser.
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Organiser
OrganiserBig Blue Adventure, LLC
Websitebigblueadventure.com
Instagram@bigblueadventure
Running since2019
Training
Training for the Big Chief 50K
We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.
Beina integrates directly with your existing tools to understand your current fitness, and synchronise your planned sessions.
Intervals.icuWhat a Big Chief 50K plan targets
Typical sessions
50 km with 1,372 m of climbing
Time on feet and fatigue resistance
Fuelling and pacing for the whole event
What your weeks look like
Typical sessions
Long runs that build time on your feet
Tempo and threshold sessions to hold race pace
Back-to-back weekend runs for fatigue resistance
Not a generic schedule
Typical sessions
Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
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