VHTRC - The Club

Sean Andrish was second overall and Brian Schmidt was third (and first masters) at the Blues Cruise 50km near Reading, Pennsylvania. Sean reports that, "It was almost all trail, but it was smooth, runnable trail with very few significant hills."  Results are not on line yet. Event Web site

Entrants list

Mike Campbell has submitted his report of his run at the San Diego 100 mile June 9 and 10.

Eva Pastalkova lowered her own event record by almost a half hour to be the top woman at the 2012 Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 mile run held in the mountains of the same name on the weekend of May 12-13.  Jason Lantz won the male race.  Jack Pilla broke the senior record in Beamon-like fashion. The evolving Report Page has results and links to photos. Thanks to the many who made this possible!

Tracy Dahl has stepped forward to guide the Women's Half Marathon in 2012.  She met with the VHTRC board in early March to formalize her appointment as the race director. 

This year's race will be held on September 8.  Entry will open in June.  WHM Web site | More about Tracy

Angus Repper and Erika Ebright were the winners at the Hashawha Hills 50km held on February 25 in Maryland. The weather was cold and windy but not that bad, compared to previous versions of the event.  RD Alan Gowen and his fine volunteers braved the cold to put on a great run.  Hashawha Web page

A report, results, and photos are now available:

Carter Wiecking has submitted her report of the Boyer's Furnace 40 Mile run that she staged on New Year's Eve.

Our friends at the West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners' club held the West Virginia Trilogy over the past weekend, October 7-9.  Described as a "triptych of runs on the Eastern Continental Divide", runners are able to run a 50 km race, then a 50 miler, and then finish their long weekend up with a trail half marathon.  That is roughly 95 miles of running in the Spruce Knob and Seneca Rocks area over three days.  Sounds like fun, and the overall winner this year was the VHTRC's David Frazier, in just under 14 hours.  First VHTRC woman to finish was Adele Fenwick.  15 runners managed to finish all three events - it would have been 16 if President Alan Gowen had not been too sick to make it to the starting line.  Results

Jack Kurisky was the only 100-mile finisher at the "Hot TWOT" on October 1, finishing in a time of 37:50.  As has become the norm for those seeking to actually finish the full 100 miles, Jack started on Friday September 30.  The weather was chillier than experienced at most runnings of The Wild Oak Trail 100 in the Fall, with some snow swirling on the Big Bald section of the trail on Jack's fourth loop.

By finishing the Wasatch Front 100 miler in Utah on September 10th, David Snipes became the 36th confirmed finisher of The Last Great Race.  The Last Great Race consists of the Grand Slam 100 milers (Western States, Vermont, Leadville, and Wasatch), and Old Dominion and Angeles Crest.  Sniper is the only runner to complete the LGR this year, the first to finish it since 2007, the first Virginian and the first VHTRC member to complete it since Mike Bur in 2003.  For extra grins and giggles, Sniper also completed MMT and the CAT 100 this year, and rumor has it he will be running Grindstone, and then one or two more before he shuts it down for this year.  Congratulations, David! -  Last Great Race site