I've been very patient, but I can't contain myself any longer:
where is the multi-day racing up in New England? We raced a 24 hour event in New Hampshire a couple years ago and the terrain was amazing; there is such a rich park system up there, great rivers, and spider webs of trails and roads, and -of course- serious elevation to blow those quads out.
Scott "Lactic Acid" Pleban maintains the Appalachian Extreme race was
one of the truly great races. The App Extreme was 72 hours of rugged wilderness, but the race organization (
RacingAhead -- one of the great old school race organizations that changed ownership a few years ago) now only offers a single 24-hour event in 2007.
I hear stories from racers who did the App Extreme (
race reports and
some photos from those races), and it makes me dream of a multi-day New England event.
We're looking for multi-day races to compete in and, honestly, it looks like we'll have to head back to
Moab, Utah this Fall to get a good multi-day (60 hours+) race through some amazing terrain. While Moab is a gorgeous venue, I'd prefer to race somewhere new this Summer/Fall! Isn't there a race organization in Mass, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine that can make it happen? I'm not calling out individual organizations . . . I know it's tough and they should realize I have a full understanding of what race organizing entails. Consider this just a gentle nudge from a mid-Atlantic racer jonesing for New England topo maps! A couple teams from down here are chomping at the bit!
Fair warning:
we recently acquired the domain name
Untamed Adventure which frees us from geographic constraints, so if next year I combine two
Untamed VAs into a single long weekend and move things about 500 miles North . . .