Hardrock 2027 Lottery: The December 5 Draw, the Two Pools and How Tickets Work

The lottery for the 2027 Hardrock 100 is drawn on Saturday, December 5, 2026, starting at 9 a.m. Mountain time. Applications closed in October, so the only thing left is the draw. It's held at New Terrain Brewing in Golden, Colorado, with shakeout runs from 7 a.m., and it's streamed live on Mountain Outpost's YouTube channel. The Western States draw is the same morning.

We'll update this post when the names come out.

How does the Hardrock lottery work?

There are two pools, one for runners who have finished Hardrock and one for runners who never have, and they get tickets in different ways.

In the Never Finished pool you get 2^N tickets, where N is the number of times you've applied, qualified and not started since you last started Hardrock. So a fourth try is worth eight tickets. Start the race and drop out, and that count goes back to zero.

In the Finished pool everyone gets one ticket for applying, one more for each Hardrock finish, and one for each year they applied and didn't start since they last ran it.

How many runners get in?

In last December's lottery for the 2026 race, Hardrock selected 147 runners, 64 from the Finished pool and 83 from the Never Finished pool. The race hasn't published the 2027 split yet.

Hardrock also has a rule on women in the field: the share of women it picks can't be lower than the share of women who applied. For 2026 that was 22.2 percent. Each pool has its own wait lists.