This Week In Running: May 20, 2024
This Week in Running’s trail and ultra recap for May 20, 2024.
A profile of the Virginia Happy Trails Running Club.
A look at the history of the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile in Virginia.
iRunFar would like to give a hearty salute to those women and men still out on the Massanutten 100 course. Yeah, the weather conditions could have been worse, but it…
At 2:34 this afternoon Karl Meltzer stormed through the unofficial aid station at 211 East (58.1). Less than 10 minutes later a severe thunder storm rumbled through 211 East and…
The 5.6 miles from Camp Roos to Gap Creek 1 (mile 39.8) ran tougher than usual today. A recent fire cleared things out up on top and made for some…
Karl Meltzer (10:12) opened up his lead over Todd Walker and the field between Habron Gap (mile 24.7 – no update) and Camp Roosevelt (mile 34.2). That said, he took…
Todd Walker had the lead into the first aid station at Shaw Gap (8.7 miles) with Karl Meltzer just a few meters back. Glen Redpath was three minutes back with…
This year’s MMT 100 men’s race is so competitive and so chock full of friends that we’ve put off writing this preview for well over a week. This year’s race…
We enjoyed predicting last year’s women’s MMT field so much that we’re doing it again. This year’s field features three more ladies than last year (23 vs. 20), and much…
iRunFar hates strongly dislikes clutter. While iRunFar’s separate MMT Updates served their purpose during the race, they clutter up the blog. Therefore, we’ve taken them and combined them into one…
Alright, some folks seem to want play-by-play from the MMT course this weekend. If this post is successful (and there’s a cell signal in Fort Valley), we’ll go live from…
While women’s field at this year’s Massanutten 100 does not have the numbers the men’s field does (20 ladies in the race versus 140 lads), it promises to be an…
