A VERMONT TEAM DISTANCE RELAY RACE ADVENTURE
JEFFERSONVILLE TO BENNINGTON - VERMONT
36 LEGS, 200 MILES, 7 COVERED BRIDGES...
"It's not the Olympics, you're out there to have fun with your friends." - D.D. TeamZinc
Saturday - Sunday June 20th - 21st, 2009
The Green Mountain Relay is a 200-mile team distance relay race adventure in Vermont designed for runners of all abilities. Scheduled the third weekend of June to take advantage of the Summer Solstice, the intimate GMR route travels north-south through the heart of Vermont and the Green Mountains, with a majority of the route following or paralleling historic Route 100. The fourth annual running of the Green Mountain Relay will be Saturday - Sunday, June 20th - 21st, 2009.
Start your running season off with a fun and challenging adventure with 5 or 11 of your running friends on one of America's most scenic relay race routes.
COURSE
Route 100, which appears on many "Top 10" lists of American's most scenic roads, is a bucolic, two-lane road lined with maple trees, passing through narrow valleys, picking its way around cornfields, and traveling through small villages rather than ignoring them.
Runners will experience all that is special about Vermont: country stores, sugar houses, quaint country inns, covered bridges, and revolutionary war period homes, buildings, and cemeteries. Route 100 weaves through small towns and villages, past mooing cows, crowing roosters, and the roaring waterfalls in Granville Gulf. Runners cross over seven historic covered bridges, go up and over challenging hills such as Terrible Mountain, and finish with the Bennington Memorial on the horizon.
The relay begins 45 minutes from Burlington in the small town of Jeffersonville and finishes in Bennington.
TEAMS
There are two main divisions of teams in the Green Mountain Relay: 12-person and Ultra teams. Both divisions have competitive and non-competitive options.
12-person teams (7 - 12 runners) have six competitive categories to choose from: Men's, Women's, Mixed, Open, Master's, or Hash House Harrier (the red dress division) categories. Each person on a competitive 12-member team runs three legs of the race in rotation, with legs averaging 5.6 miles in distance.
High School teams are also invited to participate and have a discounted registration fee.
Ultra teams (4 - 6 runners) have three options to choose from. Ultra teams can choose the 6 x 1 option where each runner is responsible for one leg of the race averaging 33.3 miles or the 6 x 6 option where each runner is responsible for 6 legs run in rotation as the 12-person teams does. The Super Ultra option is for ultra runners who want the challenge of running the route solo or with a team of up to three runners.
The Helter Skelter category is available for both 12-person and Ultra teams and is a non-competitive category. Whereas competitive teams must follow the standard relay rules of keeping the running order of their team intact, the Helter Skelter category is for teams that choose to have their runners run in any order they want. No prizes are awarded to the top teams in the Helter Skelter category.
Teams start in waves from 5:30 AM to 1:00 PM - a team's starting time is dependent on a team's pace.
www.GreenMountainRelay.com
