Ragnar Road SoCal - Ultra

Enhanced

Friday, April 9, 2027 · San Diego → Huntington Beach, CA

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Total distance: 196mi
Legs: 36
Runners per team: 6
Longest leg: 10.2mi
Average leg: 5.4mi
Total climb: +9,706ft
Total descent: −9,833ft
Highest point: 779ft

The course

StartSan Diego, CA

FinishHuntington Beach, CA

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+9,706 ft climbing, −9,833 ft descending, highest point 779 ft.

Legs to know

Elevation is measured along the organizer's published route. Handoff reviews each route before it goes live and aims to get it right, but routes can shift slightly from year to year and organizers don’t always update their maps. Check the official race guide.

How Handoff measures climb and descent

See a route discrepancy, or have detailed route data? Let us know.

Elevation: Mapzen terrain tiles (USGS 3DEP, SRTM and others), hosted on AWS Open Data

Every leg

LegProfileDistanceClimbDescentTerrainDifficulty

Getting there

The airports closest to the race, and about how far each is by car from the start area and from the finish area.

SNASanta Ana · Major2 hr from the start area · 15 min from the finish areaClosest to the finish area
SANSan Diego · Major30 min from the start area · 2 hr from the finish areaClosest to the start area
TIJTijuana · Major30 min from the start area · 2 hr from the finish area
HHRHawthorne · Regional2½ hr from the start area · 45 min from the finish area

The two ends are about 2 hr apart by road, so plan where each van and car ends up.

Drive times without traffic, rounded, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT, on map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Airports from OurAirports.

Race weekend weather

The last 5 race weekends, for a team starting at 7 AM and running 10-minute miles. A guide to what to pack, not a forecast.

Start · Fri 7 AM56°F on average

San Diego, CA. Between 52 and 61°F over 5 years.

Coldest on course54°F low

The coldest hour, on average. About 10 hours of the run are in the dark.

Finish · Sat 3:40 PM65°F on average

Huntington Beach, CA. Between 59 and 67°F over 5 years.

Low to high on course, each year

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2025
2024
2023
2022

Daylight across a typical team's 33 hours

Fri

Dark

Sat

Other data sources