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RaceWorth™

Independent editorial

About RaceWorth™

RaceWorth™ is an editorial project: honest scores for mountain ultras. Think Wine Spectator or PeakRankings, pointed at destination trail races instead of bottles or ski mountains. The job is to tell you whether a weekend is worth the flight, not whether you can find a bib.

We are not affiliated with race directors, series owners, or registration platforms. Promoters cannot buy scores.

We publish two headlines, Demand and Worth, and ten supporting dimensions. We do not publish a 0–100 overall. We do not clone difficulty formulas. Leadville and JFK 50 are in the file so the scores are visible, not so we can pretend every famous ultra is a mountain destination. Worth is the verdict. We do not stamp Skip on someone's race.

There is no user-generated review layer. Scores are editorial. Promoters cannot buy a rewrite.

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