Someone's Timely Unilateral Vermont Withdrawal Xposed Yesterday – Zoinks!
June 21, 2007 by Bryon Powell · 3 Comments
You guessed it, that someone was me. That’s right, I officially withdrew from the Vermont 100 yesterday. It’s been the plan for a while now, but I hadn’t pulled the trigger. Admittedly, my run at Laurel Highlands the other weekend briefly had me considering running VT, but I will choose the wise path and wait until fall to race a 100… if I do one at all. Still leaning towards running the San Diego 100 in late October… or could run an impromptu 100 somewhere on the East Coast this fall if one pops up – hint hint.
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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What prompted the withdrawal?
Not training from March through the present. I’ll fake my way through pretty much any other distance, but I run so few 100s that I want to know I can do better than just finish when I toe the line.
I should have heeded that thought-process myself. LOL!