Chattanooga, TN

100 miler

I want to do a 100 miler really bad this winter. Any suggestions? would love something in the southeast. Or any good 100 mile trail races near southeast, any part of the year?

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Permalink Reply by Sal Coll on September 12, 2010 at 8:21am

The Pinhoti 100 is coming up in November, it's in Alabama, it's a point to point, great run.

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Permalink Reply by Shane Shelton on September 14, 2010 at 12:25am

the pinhoti looks good, but its right after xc season, but i may still go for it. have you heard of Barkley 100

Sal Coll said:

The Pinhoti 100 is coming up in November, it's in Alabama, it's a point to point, great run.

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Permalink Reply by Cathi Cannon on September 21, 2010 at 10:33pm

Barkley isn't until April-ish... and if you really want to run 100 miles, that probably isn't one that would be recommended - only 10 people made it to the second loop this year. (out of 5 loops!)

GUTS (the club in GA) is holding their inaugural 100m in March:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117709771594187&ref=ts

some of the bigger ones coming up (like Umstead and HURT) are already filled.

check out UltraRunning's calendar and perhaps you'll find one that fits with your training ramp up:
http://www.ultrarunning.com/calendar.html
good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Shane Shelton on September 21, 2010 at 11:20pm

thanks, and yea true about Barkely it seem pretty crazy. Id still like to see what its about one day

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Permalink Reply by Robert Kulisek on September 28, 2010 at 8:27am

A Friend of min attempted the Barkely 100 on at least one occasion that I know of and he didn't finish. You can read his report here:

http://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/08carl.html

and here is a description of the course:

http://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/

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Permalink Reply by Shane Shelton on September 28, 2010 at 6:46pm

Thanks for the link, that race sounds so crazy. I really want to do it one year, i guess its not the b est training for college xc and track though. Im pretty sure im going to do pine mtn 40 mile in dec it looks nice, and maybe lookout 100k again. Does anybody know if it will be a 100k or a 50 miler again?

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Permalink Reply by Robert Kulisek on September 28, 2010 at 8:35pm

looks like it's a 50 miler this year

http://www.rockcreek.com/lookout/default.asp