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Black Lungs

Cabot Trail Relay

Black Lungs archive

Results & Records

Highlights from thirteen seasons on the Cabot Trail — a front door into team history, runner records, and leg achievements.

Seasons

13

2012–2026 archive

Runners

58

Unique leg assignments

Fastest finish

16:43:49

2025 season

Best place

2nd

Overall team standing

Podiums

9

Top-three finishes

Team History

Finish times and overall placing across every archived season.

Finish time trend

Lower is faster — y-axis is team finish clock

Finish time 16:43:4917:24:0618:04:24 2012201320142015201620172018201920222023202420252026

Overall placing

Lower is better — 1st is the top of the field

Overall place 2nd4th5th 2012201320142015201620172018201920222023202420252026

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Runner Records

Black Lungs participation leaders — ranked by team archive depth first, with full Cabot history noted where known.

Most race weekends

  1. 1 Michael Doyle 13 Lungs weekends · 15 total Cabot weekends
  2. 2 Dan Way 11 Lungs weekends · 12 total Cabot weekends
  3. 3 Ross Bain 11 weekends
  4. 4 Robert Campbell 10 Lungs weekends · 13 total Cabot weekends
  5. 5 Nick Croker 9 weekends
  6. 6 Daniel Kelly 7 weekends
  7. 7 Scott Leitch 6 weekends
  8. 8 Kyle Landry 5 weekends
  9. 9 Aaron Manning 4 Lungs weekends · 8 total Cabot weekends
  10. 10 Tyson Loney 4 weekends

Most leg completions

  1. 1 Michael Doyle 22 legs (19 Lungs + 3 other)
  2. 2 Dan Way 19 legs (18 Lungs + 1 other)
  3. 3 Ross Bain 17 legs
  4. 4 Nick Croker 14 legs
  5. 5 Robert Campbell 17 legs (12 Lungs + 5 other)
  6. 6 Daniel Kelly 11 legs
  7. 7 Scott Leitch 7 legs
  8. 8 Aaron Manning 14 legs (7 Lungs + 7 other)
  9. 9 Tyson Loney 6 legs
  10. 10 Ryan Tice 8 legs (6 Lungs + 2 other)

Most unique legs

  1. 1 Dan Way 17 Lungs legs · 17 total unique (incl. other teams)
  2. 2 Ross Bain 17 unique Lungs legs
  3. 3 Michael Doyle 14 Lungs legs · 17 total unique (incl. other teams)
  4. 4 Nick Croker 13 unique Lungs legs
  5. 5 Robert Campbell 10 Lungs legs · 17 total unique (incl. other teams)
  6. 6 Daniel Kelly 7 unique Lungs legs
  7. 7 Scott Leitch 7 unique Lungs legs
  8. 8 Aaron Manning 6 Lungs legs · 12 total unique (incl. other teams)
  9. 9 Tyson Loney 6 unique Lungs legs
  10. 10 Ryan Tice 6 Lungs legs · 8 total unique (incl. other teams)

Most distance

  1. 1 Dan Way 314.80 km (295.00 Lungs + 19.80 other)
  2. 2 Michael Doyle 348.60 km (291.80 Lungs + 56.80 other)
  3. 3 Ross Bain 276.30 km
  4. 4 Nick Croker 228.70 km
  5. 5 Robert Campbell 276.30 km (191.70 Lungs + 84.60 other)
  6. 6 Daniel Kelly 186.20 km
  7. 7 Aaron Manning 239.00 km (122.40 Lungs + 116.60 other)
  8. 8 Scott Leitch 113.40 km
  9. 9 Ryan Tice 137.80 km (105.40 Lungs + 32.40 other)
  10. 10 Tyson Loney 105.20 km

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Leg Records

Fastest Black Lungs splits by leg and the historical legs where the team has been strongest versus the wider field.

Black Lungs best time by leg

Fastest archived split on each of the 17 legs — clock time and pace from official leg distance.

Leg Runner Time Pace / km Year Distance
Leg 1Nick Croker00:58:513:28/km201517.00 km
Leg 2Ryan Tice00:59:063:18/km202617.92 km
Leg 3Mark Royce00:44:483:20/km202413.46 km
Leg 4Nick Croker01:08:543:27/km202220.01 km
Leg 5Dan Kelly01:00:433:28/km202517.50 km
Leg 6Ryan Tice00:57:033:16/km202517.50 km
Leg 7Aaron Manning00:46:473:34/km201813.10 km
Leg 8Nick Croker00:41:533:23/km201912.36 km
Leg 9Dan Way01:04:213:36/km202317.84 km
Leg 10Nick Croker00:56:283:50/km202614.70 km
Leg 11Ross Bain00:48:453:29/km202314.00 km
Leg 12Scott Leitch00:51:433:17/km202615.78 km
Leg 13Mark Royce00:54:453:27/km202415.88 km
Leg 14Daniel Kelly01:09:553:32/km201819.81 km
Leg 15Aaron Manning00:52:533:26/km202315.42 km
Leg 16Ryan Tice00:48:423:10/km202415.35 km
Leg 17Graydon Snider01:02:053:19/km201518.70 km

Strongest historical legs

Highest weighted field percentiles in archive.

  1. 1 Leg 3 97.6th pct 13 archived splits
  2. 2 Leg 8 97.4th pct 13 archived splits
  3. 3 Leg 12 96.4th pct 13 archived splits
  4. 4 Leg 16 96.3th pct 13 archived splits
  5. 5 Leg 1 96.3th pct 13 archived splits

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Value Added

Runners who most consistently beat the field baseline on their legs.

Top all-time

  1. 1 Alexei Strokach +4.97 1 legs legs
  2. 2 Ryan Tice +4.03 6 legs legs
  3. 3 Tim Huebsch +3.24 3 legs legs
  4. 4 Graydon Snider +3.13 3 legs legs
  5. 5 Curtis Anderson +3.01 5 legs legs
  6. 6 Fernando Brahla +2.97 1 legs legs
  7. 7 Aaron Manning +2.94 7 legs legs
  8. 8 Mark Royce +2.65 2 legs legs
  9. 9 Nick Croker +2.53 14 legs legs
  10. 10 Jeff Costen +1.72 2 legs legs

Recent leaders

2024–2026 cumulative

  1. 1 Ryan Tice +24.0 2024–2026
  2. 2 Nick Croker +13.5 2024–2026
  3. 3 Daniel Kelly +5.9 2024–2026
  4. 4 Scott Leitch +5.6 2024–2026
  5. 5 Curtis Anderson +5.3 2024–2026

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Interesting Things

Curated highlights — the stories behind the numbers.

17 legs

Full-course veterans

4 runners have completed all 17 legs in archive — including Dan Way, Michael Doyle, Ross Bain.

16:43:49

Fastest season on record

2025 at 16:43:49 (3rd overall) — the quickest Black Lungs finish in the archive.

15 weekends

Longest Cabot span

Michael Doyle has 15 race weekends in the merged Cabot archive.

4 seasons

Podium streak

Black Lungs reached the podium 4 seasons in a row at least once — a run of top-three team finishes.

Leg 3

Strongest historical leg

Leg 3 averages near the 98th percentile versus the wider field — Black Lungs' deepest relative strength.

00:41:53

Fastest archived split

Nick Croker ran Leg 8 in 00:41:53 (2019) — the quickest Black Lungs leg in the archive.

Go Deeper

Full archives and analytics when you want every row.

Team history

Year-by-year finishes and gaps to the winner.

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Runner history

Leg-by-leg archive with ranks and percentiles.

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Leg history

Full-field leg splits and Black Lungs comparisons.

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Value Added

Interactive dashboard and per-leg detail.

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Analytics

Percentiles, charts, and course difficulty context.

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