Black Copperhead Sting

Black Copperhead Sting

🐍🔥 Black Copperhead Sting

The Legend Returns – Are You Ready to Run Wild?

Get stoked, trail slayers! The Black Copperhead Sting is BACK at Rocky Branch Park — and it's bringing the heat to Belmont like never before. Whether you're chasing distance, glory, or just that post-race bacon, this ultra loop race is built to break limits and make legends.

📍 Where:

Rocky Branch Park, Belmont, NC
The only ultra trail race in town – and it bites back.

🗓 Race Day Schedule:

🕖 7:00 AM – Park opens (early birds get the worm... and first crack at the trail)

🏁 7:10–7:50 AM – Bib pickup (grab your gear and your grit)

🚨 8:00 AM SHARP – Race begins (no excuses, no delays)

⌛ 10-Hour Cutoff – Go ‘til 5:30 PM or get stung trying

🔁 The Loop of Glory:

3.24 miles per lap

293 feet of elevation gain per loop

Trails: Tread → Canopy → Tread → Eagle → Finish

Marked with blazing RED ribbons & arrows — stay fast, stay fierce

🌲 Twists, climbs, roots, and rocks — this course doesn't play nice. But neither do you.

🧃 Aid Station = Trail Fuel Heaven:

Pickles, candy, cereal, pretzels, fruit

YES, there's bacon.

Water, Tailwind, sodas to keep you flying

First aid on standby — but you won't need it, right? 😏

📜 Rules of the Sting:

Bib on the front — wear it like a badge of honor

Trekking poles? Heck yes.

Runners AND walkers welcome

No dogs/strollers unless you get the OK

Rain or shine — Mother Nature doesn’t cancel and neither do we

🏅 Epic Finisher's Medal:

Conquer the Sting and earn your reward: a handmade pottery medal from BlueGill Pottery.
Every medal is different — just like every finisher’s story.

You won’t just finish a race. You’ll forge a memory.

📲 Stay Loud. Stay Proud.

Live results: UltraSignup.com

Photos drop: One week post-race

Share your glory: @dirty_wolf_racing

Tag it: #blackcopperheadsting | #dirtywolfracing

🐍💥 Final Word:

This isn’t your average trail race. It’s grit, grind, and glory wrapped in roots, rocks, and red ribbons.
Lace up. Show up.
STING HARD. RUN WILD.

Event's current local time: 7:05 PM ET