dupont trail marathon

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I looked up your little marathon. How can the USATF truly sanction an event with so little prize money. You said not much Bennies? No Bennies unless you win! Your website puts the money breakdown at $120,$75,$50. Are you kidding me? Beatnick 5K's have more cash than that. How can the USATF be sanctioning this event?

I don't live in North Carolina, so would you offer travel vouchers? Hotel? Is the entry even comped?

Good Luck with your race. I wont waste my time.

Dillon

Dupont huh? Had JUCO X.C. nationals there years ago right? I am sure there are some boys/gals in the area that would run it. 1st I heard of this race, might be hard to get a crowd this late in the game. Good luck with the race.

For those interested it is a great area of the country, and great time to visit (leafs changing color, and great temps).

Same place as JUCO nats back in the day. Covers virtually the entire Dupont State Forest. Not really looking for a crowd, just an elite to stamp the race legit. Comped entry easy to do and housing would be w/ a host family or on my futon. Really only have 1 elite female entered as well.

"Dillon" won't be there? And USAT&F sanctioned an event without his sign-off?

How can anyone ever claim there is a "God" when the world contains such horrors as this?

please someone do, or else one of those punks out there will win and think he is the shit cause he is "National Champion" even though in a road marathon he barely breaks 2:40...national champion of crap

That's pretty funny stuff. Reminds of the summer of '99 when I was the British Columbian Senior 10,000 champ because I was the only sub-36 minute guy in the field. There were 5 starters. I ran 33:18 and lapped the entire field at least 3 times. The guy in 4th ran just under 54 minutes. At about 6km this huge guy comes running onto the track with his head phones on and decides to try and keep pace with me, unaware that a race was going on. The best part was that the officials, nor I, didn't even care.

I think I'll fly out there and try and add another title to my awe-inspiring collection. I'll be signing autographs at the beginning to help pay for my airfare...

Oh crap, I just remembered, I'm canadian and we don't even have a road marathon championship...

Eric

good post scott. that area is beautiful, and mid october, it cant be held at any better place. if they do it again next year there, i will certainly run it. good luck to all...

yeah i wish i would have known about it earlier. i live in asheville but have been taking some time off from serious training or else i would defenitely be there. dupont is a great place to do long runs on the trails for sure!

"yeah i wish i would have known about it earlier. i live in asheville but have been taking some time off from serious training or else i would defenitely be there. dupont is a great place to do long runs on the trails for sure!"

Don't let that stop you. If the relay isn't full then get a team together. If it is full, then contact Greg at Hendersonville YMCA and see if you can help in some way. There is always some way to help and be involed.

Dhing

Hi Scott

So are you running the trail marathon? I was out in Brevard for HS distance running camp and ran Crazy 8s ( won Masters in a slow time) you were there, how did I miss ya? So who is the one elite female running this event? I do not think flying all the way from the West coast to the East would be conducive but hope it goes well. Train smart and run like the wind!

Ghost Racer,

Are you still coaching athletes? I very much enjoyed your training methods and am interested in returning to a similar system as I feel I ran my best when you were my coach. Please contact me if you can offer any training help. Thanks.

-BC

"Ghost Racer" AKA Scott Wolfe coaching anyone...the people he told he was starting an elite team in Durham that never existed, or the guy who stated he was on World Championship Ultra Teams that he was never on...or the guy who lied to USATF and almost got on the World Half team before someone clued them in that his submitted time was bogus...or the guy who took coaching money from a female runner and never sent her any workouts...or the guy who told several people he was on a world mountain team in the late 1990's, but three of the guys on the team have all said that it was a lie...Yeah, sounds like the guy I would take advice from!! WOW!! I think people across the US have "Scott" stories. Dont waste your time with him as your coach. He has pulled the wool over way too many people to have any credibility!!!!

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no seriously

is the race this saturday? will it start at the normal race start area out there? what time does it start? sorry for all the questions

Good post Scott...and good race today...

...and "Dillon", you best be glad you didn't show as the winner was a guy who regularly sees a 2 in front of his 10k time...

....Stay home where you belong...chump

You know, there just might be some people who will actually run to race against good competition, instead of looking how much money they can rake in at the race and doing a cost-beneift analysis with other races in the area.