Susan Donnelly

Wedged in between UTMB and my race directing debut at the Cumberland Trail 50k was my 100th ultra.
In 1997, I ran my first ultra.  It was the only one I ran that year.  I’ve run as 17 ultras in a year, sometimes as few as 4 or 5, and in the worst year of my [...]

We have an embarrassing wealth of trails in this part of east Tennessee but few if any ultras.  Through a haphazard series of events, I kind of fell into the idea of putting on a new 50k and the next thing I knew, Rob Apple and I were out scouting locations.
Designing a race from scratch
The [...]

Monte Sano, AL
January 23, 2010
http://www.huntsvilletrackclub.org/index2.htm

Tsali Recreation Area
Almond, NC
January 2, 2010
http://vo2sportsnc.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-2nd-annual-tsali-frosty-foot-fest-to-take-place-january-2nd-2010/

Pine to Christopher Creek, Arizona
April 24, 2010
http://www.zanegrey50.com/Highline_Trail_50/Home.html

Pine Mountain 40 Mile
Pine Mountain, GA
December 6, 2009
http://www.getguts.com/e-pm40.shtml

This race report is LONG overdue, delayed by other events, so let’s start it with some of the questions people keeping asking about the race:
How far? 103 miles
Where did it go? One large loop around the huge Mont Blanc massive starting in France, then south through Italy, north through Switzerland, and back west into [...]