Showing posts with label Old Dominion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Dominion. Show all posts

Sunday, January 14, 2007

100 Mile Ultra Slam at Manssanutten Mountains?

I love point-to-point non-repetitive courses, so I pay attention to Massanutten Mountain Tails 100 Miles and Old Dominion 100 Miles (a loop course), and other such 100 milers. I also find out there is an Old Dominion Memorial 100 Miles and the story between the two Old Dominion runs (see The Grand Slam of Ultrarunning).

Most amazing to me is these three races are at consecutive weekends around Memorial Day and their courses are all at the Massanutten Mountains or so called Shenandoah National Park.





Massanutten Mountain Tails 100 MilesA week before
Old Dominion Memorial 100 MilesMemorial Day weekend
Old Dominion 100 MilesA week after

I think it'll be a great achievement to complete all of them in one year, more accurately, in these three weeks, or even more precisely, two weeks (plus one day). I believe there should be some ones completing them before. Perhaps we can find a name for this 100 miler series, Memorial Day Slam, Massanutten Mountain Slam, Shenandoah Valley Slam, Virginia Slam, or Woodstock Slam? Need to check with Stan Jensen's Run 100s.

I work and live in California, so I'd like to see if I can find a short business project for me to conquer them all at a time. The problem is I'll miss my local favorite run Ohlone Wilderness 50K, which I'd like to do every year.