The Jay Mountain Marathon is part of a 3-day paddling, running and mountain biking challenge (Jay Mountain Marathon) that takes place - oddly enough - around Jay, VT. The 'marathon' is a 32-mile / 5000' ascent jaunt over a wide variety of increasingly stupid terrain, such as forest tracks, swamps, mud holes, rivers, endless fields, overhanging cliff faces. Not so much a run as a stagger, stumble and bumble.

Several Trailheads and Millstriders made the trip from Chapel Hill, NC, to get their arses sorely whipped by the course. Pain is good!

As well as a mixture of running pix, there are a few shots of the start of the bike event.