Run under the Moon in Ojai

Our hope for 2025 is to make this a weekend full of fun and we would love if participants and families hung out at the finish line with us all weekend. We have a great area for car camping, plenty of play structures for kids, access to a convenience store and burger joint just across the street. We will be adding plenty of fun things as we get closer to race day.

Due to the difficult nature of our longer distances, we will continue to enforce that runners have qualifying events for both the 100 mile and 100k distances, since they are gnarly and we want to make sure you have the confidence to tackle them.

As a qualifier for the 100 mile distance we would like you to submit (via email at coyotetwomoon@gmail.com) an event (does not have to be a race) of 60+miles with over 15k worth of vert. This should be the absolute minimum if you want to be ready for 100 miles with 26k of vert. This event needs to have been completed within 1 year of 5/2/25. While your past experience matters to us, we want to ensure that you are going to be safe on our course on race day.

If you want to come out for the 100k distance of C2M then we will need to see that you have completed an event of at least a 50k with at 10k worth of vert. This should (help) prepare you for double the distance and 17k worth of vert in our rendition of the C2M 100k.

While we do not have qualifying standards for the other distances, they are still stout courses and you should come prepared for them.

PACERS:

100K allowed from Horn Canyon TH or Rose Valley. They do need to let us know their name, where they will be starting, phone # and emergency contact name and #. This can be done via email.

100M allowed from Gridley TH or Cozy Dell TH. Also need to let us know name, phone # and emergency contact name and #.

DROP BAGS:

These can be left at runner check in on Thursday night (details to come soon) or by 4pm at the latest at the start/finish area. Please label and do not leave valuables in these bags. Please label with your bib # and aid station. Aid stations below will have the option for drop bags. Please do not expect bags back at the start/finish before Sunday afternoon.

Rose Valley- 100k and 100M

Horn Canyon- 100k and 100M

Gridley bottom- 100M

Cozy Dell-100M

Our 100 mile event takes place on 99% dirt trails including fire roads and plenty of sweet single track, all with amazing views of the canyons and valley below. There are long climbs, cruisy downhills, switchbacks and peaks to navigate, a tower to climb if you want and, of course, lots and lots of vert. Get your quads ready!

We are happy to showcase many of the trails that Ojai has to offer and we hope you visit both before and after this event. Please help us to take care of this course so we can enjoy the trails for years to come. The Sisar Canyon Run Club has been hosting local runs every Sunday at 8am (7am when it’s really hot). These runs are usually from the same Rock, Tree, Sky Learning Center that we use for the start/finish and often some runners complete our 30k route. Occasionally they will go “off site” and enjoy some other local trails. Come out if you can and run with us prior to race day! We will try and get together some planned training days as well as trail work days.

THIS EVENT BEGINS AT 5PM FRIDAY MAY 2ND, 2025.