Massanutten 100 – Registration Open, Soon to Be Shut?
December 4, 2007 by Bryon Powell · 10 Comments
In doing something I thought I wouldn’t do for many years, that is sign up for the Massanutten 100, I have learned that only a short while after opening just shortly before 10 a.m. EST 117 142 158 164 of the 160 slots have been filled as of 10:46 11:09 11:21 11:26 a.m. EST. A quick look at the entrants list shows the following studs have MMT on their to do list for 2008:
- Sean Andrish
- Adam Casseday
- Wynn Davis
- Matt Estes
- Keith Knipling
- Mike Mason [Added 12/4 11 am]
- Tom Nielsen
- Mike Schuster (twice) [Added 12/4 11 am]
[Edit: Added 12/4 11:29] And then it was closed. As of 11:26 a.m., there were 164 entrants for MMT ’08. According to the MMT website, the first 160 entrants are officially in with additional entrants placed on the wait list. The good news with waited listed entrants, is that many entrants came off the wait list last year.
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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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Goat – Dare you enter the Chamber of Rock? Let’s get it on! ;-)
Mason,
For the record, I will only be running MMT in the unlikely event that I get into Hardrock this year. Otherwise, you’ve got a pacer.
-Goat
Come on, Goat. There is beauty and rhythm in them there rocks. Looking forward to having you as a pacer, hoss. Any word on Tony K. getting in??
Scary, closed in 45 min…watch out for Bighorn now!
Mason,
There’s beauty and rhythm in me banging my head against the wall, but you don’t often see me doing that do you? ;-)
Olga,
It was a bit closer to 90 minutes (it was incorrectly reported on the ultralist), but still pretty crazy stuff! Bighorn will fill nearly instantly. VT and Leadville will fill in days rather than months. I may preemptively enter an unnamed 100 I am currently considering, as I don’t think entry will remain open for more than two weeks as opposed to the 6+ months it remained open last year.
Any word on teh Grindstone 100 and the entry process?
Well dude if you don’t get in Hardrock as a runner I’ll look forward to hangin out with you at the aide stations waiting for our runners. Good luck at Hell Gate brother and have a great Christmas.
Dave W.
Thanks, Dave. Pacing is the enjoyable way to tour the Massanuttens. Good thinking.
I thought you were smarter than entering MMT…glad to see that I was wrong!
haha
Peace
The Mule
Mule,
A Goat isn’t all that smart after all… we’re just good at eating alot and moving through the mountains quickly.