This Weekend's Starting Line

Abby Mahoney, coming off a big snowshoe win last weekend will be at the Northfield Mountain 5.5 mile Snowshoe Race, also serving as the Northeast Snowshoe Championships. Dwight Shuler will be at the Black Mountain Marathon while Dane Mitchell and Mark Lundblad will be in the Mount Mitchell Challenge 40 mile field which is the same race venue. Both races start together in Black Mountain, NC and finish back in Black Mountain at an elevation 2,360'. The marathon climbs to 5,340' to the turn around on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The 40 mile goes to highest point on the east coast at 6,684' to the Mt.Mitchell tower before turning back.

DeWayne Satterfield will make it back to back ultra racing weekends by running the Mt.Cheaha 50k. A point to point mostly single track course and billed as the race to the top of Alabama, finishing at 2,407'. Camille Herron will be racing at the Anthem 5k in Louisville, KY. This will be Camille's final tune up for her goal race next weekend at the Napa Valley Marathon. Here is a nice article the Napa Valley Register wrote about Camille this week leading up to the marathon.