General Info

Hello beautiful peoples,
This is Sylvie again, somehow back for second year of this THNGVBD situation. You will be happy (or maybe concerned) to know that even with waves hands at everything happening in 2026, this is still… happening. But now it is officially unofficial.
This is not race. I repeat: not race. There is no event. Nothing is organized. Some humans maybe go run on trail same day and suffer in similar way. If you choose to go to Dogmeat and do 10 repeats, this is between you and your life decisions. You already know how terrible it is. No one forces you.
You know there is:

• no prize money
  
• no awards
  
• no glory
  
• Only deep personal reflection and maybe public evidence on Strava of your questionable choices.
  

You cannot run away from your problems here because trail is out and back, and you just meet your problems again every few miles. Very efficient design.
There is no official start time. People just… appear. You run when you run. You stop when you regret everything.
You are responsible for:

• your own body
  
• your own navigation
  
• your own food and water
  
• your own decision to be out there
  

This is just friends and strangers doing hard thing in same general area. How you say, fat ass?
There is no registration fee because there is no registration. If some website asks you for small processing fee, this is between you and internet, not me. If you feel emotional and want to give money, please donate instead to:

• Healing Hounds Dog Rescue: money here
  
• Bay Area Ridge Trail: or money here
  
• Or bring cash, unmarked bills, put in running vest marked “Sylvie”. Tell no one.
  

No finisher medals, no shirts, no swag. Maybe you make yourself NFT medal in Microsoft Paint. Big prestige.
This is completely non-profit, non-official, non-serious gathering of people who love trails, Dogmeat, and mild levels of self-destruction.
If you show up, you show up. If you don’t, you are probably smarter.
See you maybe on the trail. Or not. Fate will decide.

Course Info

Now what in world is a Dogmeat? Dogmeat is so-called beloved local climb with about 1000ft of vert in 1,5 miles. The trail is officially called Priestrock - Dogmeat is only the upper part of Priestrock trail (start by the Lexington reservoir, hike Limekiln trail for about 2 miles to the intersection with Priestrock, set up your things, say your prayers to “Priest” and start your steep repeats).

The 50k option
10,900 ft gain in 50k (32 miles)
10 repeats of Dogmeat

The 30k (18 mile) Fun Run option
6,035 ft gain in almost 30k (18.2 miles)
5 repeats of Dogmeat

The Puppymeat (10 miler) option is a little over 3,000ft and 2 repeats of Dogmeat.

“Rules” will be similar to years prior. You should rely on your own food and water that you haul up. Pack your own food and water up Limekiln to the saddle at the Priest Rock junction below Dogmeat and crew yourself. It’s permitted to get a friend/crew to haul your stuff for you to the intersection, you can have a pacer the whole time, poles and well behaved dogs are also ok.

The only cuttoff is the end of the day and your own judgement - please know this may take a lot longer than your typical 50k. 8 to 12 hours is normal, so plan accordingly. Should you decide to dnf you have to get yourself back to your car. We will not have the option of extracting you.

Date March 7th, 2026
Start time: ANY time of your choosing ON SATURDAY, but we may have a little group start and pep talk (haha) at 7:30am for those of you who choose to show up at that time. If you really wanna run, but can’t do Saturday, no worries. Trail open 7 days a week. Suffer alone like big man.
Start place. Limekiln trailhead -(google map)

Timing: The only time that we will record on ultrasignup is your Dogmeat repeats. We don’t care how slow or fast you make it up Limekiln, all we care about is your Strava file with your Dogmeat repeats. You must complete the 2x, 5x or 10x segment to get an “official” result. We will see Strava segment leaderboard for the day, so make public like big boy.

Now go run! See you on Dogmeat!

Parking info

Parking is fairly limited by the Limekiln trailhead, please consider carpooling or parking at the paid parking lot by the reservoir (about 0.6 free miles walk to the trailhead on the road).

Prizes

Prizes? Seriously? No prize for you.

Event's current local time: 4:54 AM PT