Oak Mountain Ultra Relay

Oak Mountain Ultra Relay is held at Oak Mountain in Pelham, Alabama, starting on Friday, April 16, 2027. The event is a 24-hour format that begins at 10:00 a.m., and as the name indicates it can be tackled as a relay, with teammates taking turns, or as a solo effort against the clock.

Relay formats change the math of an ultra: instead of one long continuous push, you run repeated hard segments with rest in between, which favors runners who recover quickly and can wake up at 3:00 a.m. and still move well. Solo entrants face the more familiar 24-hour problem of pacing conservatively early and eating consistently. Either way, a spring date means training through the winter, so plan a build with back-to-back weekend runs and at least one night session so headlamp running is not new to you on race day.