Ultra running has monuments, world records, a backyard circuit that out-streams the biggest trail race in the world, and no single place that treats all of that like a sport.
Results live on UltraSignup. Rankings live in three incompatible indexes. News lives on a handful of excellent independent sites that cannot also be a live desk. Backyard has a spreadsheet. The 100-mile trail world has Instagram.
Kick Rocks is the attempt to build the thing HLTV built for Counter-Strike: one homepage you open on a Friday night. Live races on the left. The story in the middle. The ranking on the right. Click a runner, see the career. Click an event, see the start list, the storylines, the result. Separate boards for trail 100, 50–100K, backyard, road, and expedition — because pretending those are the same sport is how you get a useless number.
The ranking is editorial. It is supposed to be argued with. That is the point of a desk.