About TROT
Trail Racing Over Texas has hosted over 100 events across Texas, from one-mile kids runs, 100-mile USATF championships, UTMB & Western States qualifiers, up to 200-mile mountain adventures, 100h timed events, cross country, rucking, and everything in between for thousands of trail participants from beginner to elite, young and old, a place for anyone to "Get Off the Road" in Texas.
TROT is a locally family-owned business by trail runners Cal & Rachel Neff (and their four daughters!) to bring inclusive world-class trail events to Texas.
Events include the fastest 100mi and 50mi trail races at Brazos Bend (April and December events), the hottest race in Texas at Habanero Hundred, the beautiful Wildflower trail run in Bastrop, a hidden Texas gem with Mission Tejas, our timed challenge Jackalope Jam, the party at Night Moves, and unique triple challenge at the Shootout, the Big Tex Backyard Ultra, Road Kill XC, and many more unique themed and format races.
The TROT mission is to provide opportunities for anyone to "Get Off the Road" and move outside on trail, to showcase Texas's beautiful parks and ranches with family-friendly events for all abilities and ambitions.
OWNER & RACE DIRECTOR
CAL NEFF
A runner since the age of four years old, Cal raced the first ever unofficial TROT event in 2013 and has been around as an athlete and race director ever since. Many of the original event ideas (good and bad) have come from Cal's experiences racing and training around the world.
As a sponsored athlete with Altra Running, Cal has competed around the world at an elite level at mountain, ultra, and trail World Championships on Team Canada, Comrades, World Major Marathons, and has paced Leadville, Western States, and the American Record in the marathon. He has three Guinness World Records and broke the Canadian 50k record in 2h51m. In addition to race directing, Cal has coached for over 15 years and has his own training company Hardloop Endurance providing training for all events.
CO-OWNER & TRAIL BOSS
RACHEL NEFF
Married on the trail in 2024, Rachel is a finisher of events all the way up to 100-mile ultra's and no stranger to pacing and crewing, Rachel is the rock behind the TROT scenes providing perspective, direction, and organization to everything we do.
PHOTOGRAPHER & ASSISTANT
JEREMIAH JUSTIS
Jeremiah is a world-class photographer from Killeen, Texas. When he's not snapping our event photos or building his personal portfolio of incredible wildlife, landscape, portraits, business, streetwear, and portraits photography you can find him assisting with race operations and out on the trails himself.
ASSISTANT RACE DIRECTOR
MILLER EVANS
Miller has been on his own health and fitness journey which led him to complete his first 100-mile event at Brazos Bend 100. Living in beautiful hill country of Austin, you can find him at most of our events keeping our runners going.
SPONSORS
COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS THAT MEET THE TROT POLCIES AND GUIDLINES CAN APPLY TO SPONSOR OUR EVENTS BY EMAILING CAL@TRAILRACINGOVERTEXAS.COM