YOU FIGHT TRAFFIC EVERY DAY. WHY DO IT DURING YOUR RELAY?
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, and limited to 100 teams.
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 Sixth Annual running of the Green Mountain Relay
will be Saturday - Sunday, June 18th - 19th, 2011.
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: the small towns and villages, farms with rustic
barns and pastures of cows, 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
historic 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, or Master's 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.
