Andrew McCain puts together another absolutely Alabama ultra
By Andrew McCain | BUTS member There are a handful of boring words that might best describe running 33.5 miles on sand. Words like "trudge, monotony, forever, owww, when, why,…
By Andrew McCain | BUTS member There are a handful of boring words that might best describe running 33.5 miles on sand. Words like "trudge, monotony, forever, owww, when, why,…
When did you start running and why? Around 2012-2013. I shifted from being a road runner because I was having too many overuse injuries from pavement. What is your favorite…
When did you start trail running and why? Man, I can still remember my first trail run, it was a Rattlesnake Ridge loop at OMSP. The route wasn’t anything spectacular,…
Happy Anniversary BUTS. Wow, it doesn’t seem like 10 years ago, this whole thing started. I think, in order to understand how BUTS started, we need to go back in…
Greg Wingo is co-founder of the Birmingham Ultra Trail Society and outside the trail world? "I'm a paddling race director. I direct Great Alabama 650, the longest paddle race in…
We hope to see EVERYONE at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve on Sunday, March 19 at 1 p.m. for the BUTS Annual Party. This will be our second year at the…
Our 2023 membership drive begins March 1! Join us as we celebrate TEN YEARS of BUTS! Your membership gets you cool swag, access to run routes and training plans, and…
Birmingham Ultra Trail Society co-founder Kyle Stichtenoth remains amazed and thankful for what has been wrought by the organization imagineered by him and three friends in 2013. Wrote Kyle for our…
Birmingham Ultra Trail Society Vice President Andrew Channell is an HR systems architect for a financial services company. During his tenure as VP, he's helped build new and maintain relationships…
BUTS member Trey Clark is the cofounder of Zombie Trail Races, established in 2021. He and cousin Nick Doss "started having trail races that were somewhat out of the box…