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The Stoke

The Stoke Fine Racing Events builds trail races across Colorado. The courses are challenging and entirely runnable. The planning is done down to the last detail, so on race day all you have to do is run.

Who is behind it

Founder and race director

Scott Schrader

Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events started The Stoke in September 2025 to share the trails he runs. The first race, the Roxborough Ultras, took a year of permitting across four land managers before anyone pinned on a bib.

Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events next to the Scotty's Trailhead sign

20 yearsrunning and racing

4,500 miaverage per year

900K ftof climbing, average per year

5K to 50 milewins at every distance

How a race gets built

It starts with the land

Every Stoke course starts as a run. Scott runs the ground until the line makes sense, then takes it to the people who manage that ground and builds the race with them.

That means permits, parking plans, buses, fire districts and a landowner or two. It is slow work and it is most of the job.

Colorado Parks and WildlifeRoxborough State Park

US Forest ServicePike National Forest

Douglas County Open SpaceSharptail Ridge, Sandstone Ranch, Greenland

Denver WaterWaterton Canyon

Jefferson County Open SpaceDeer Creek Canyon

Denver Botanic GardensChatfield Farms

How a race gets built

Marked by hand

Then the course gets marked on foot. Ribbon on clothespins, clipped where a tired runner will see it. When the last runner is through, every one of them comes back down.

Courses are measured long and never short. Nobody minds an extra tenth of a mile. A short course ruins the day.

Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events with a vest full of course ribbon on clothespins at a Colorado Trail sign

So far

August 15, 2026

Year one

The first Roxborough Ultras ran from Roxborough State Park over Carpenter Peak and Sharptail Ridge, onto the Colorado Trail and back to Sharptail. It was put on with Revenant Running.

81signed up

67 of 70starters finished

0DNFs in the 50K

20 to 72the ages of the finishers

When he is not directing

Still racing

Five weeks after putting on the first Roxborough Ultras, Scott won the Run Rabbit Run 50 in Steamboat.

Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events on a trail above a valley

Races

Run Rabbit Run 50 Miler1st · Sep 19, 2026 · 8:11:36

Backcountry Wilderness Half Marathon2nd · Nov 8, 2025 · 1:24:13

Wildcat Mountain 10 Miler1st · Sep 28, 2024 · 1:05:06

Devil on the Divide 50K1st · Sep 7, 2024 · 5:09:15

Rock Hawk 50K1st · Aug 25, 2024 · 4:03:32

Colorado Cold Rush Ultra 50K1st · Dec 2, 2023 · 3:57:12

Backcountry Wilderness Half Marathon9th · Nov 4, 2023 · 1:26:47

Fastest known times

Roxborough Full Tour2022 · 1:29:43

Cub Creek Trail2022 · 35 mi · 7:34:28

Upper Turquoise Lake2022 · 14.3 mi · 2:07:05

Monument Freeway2023 · 2:29:07

Race results from UltraSignup. The Roxborough Full Tour covers the same ground the Roxborough Ultras now cross.

How we run it

Five rules

What we hold to

One priceEach race has one published price. No early bird tiers and no increases as race day gets closer.

Every distanceThe shortest race of a weekend gets the same care as the longest.

RunnableCourses are challenging and entirely runnable.

Measured longPublished distances err long. Never short.

The placeMinimal impact, and trail work coordinated with the people who manage the land.

The two mascots

The owl and the anvil

Stokely the owl is on the hats. He sees in the dark and he waits before he moves. The anvil is where the work gets done.

The anvil is there because of Scott Swaney.

They are in every drawing on this site, and on the daily pages of same forest, the reading that sits behind all of it.

See the races Scott Swaney same forest

Questions go to Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events at Scott@StokeTrailRacing.com or 303-818-2239. On Instagram at @stoketrailracing.