Medoc Meltdown a BIG Success!

We had a crowd of almost 25 runners at the Harris Teeter for a normal group run on Saturday. While our group was preparing to hit the flat paved roads an even larger group of runners were poised to take on the trails at Medoc Mountain State Park.

The 3rd Annual Medoc Meltdown was helped on Saturday, August 28th, and was an enormous success. This years race brought out the biggest crowd ever for the "fat ass" style run. In total 44 people ran the trails. Not to mention Frank Lilley and Cameron Kelly were on hand to host the event. As typical of the Medoc Meltdown it provides a self guided tour of the upcoming Medoc Trail Races. People run anywhere from one to four loops of the race course. Here is how things broke down for 2010.

• 13 Runners completed 8.6 Miles
• 10 Runners completed 17.2 Miles
• 7 Runners completed 25.8 Miles
• 14 Runners completed 34.4 Miles (full Meltdown)

This is by far the most runners that have ever completed the full ultra distance. Laura MacLean was the overall winner with a time of 5:56. Laura is also the defending champion of he Medoc Trail Marathon.

From the RMEC, Ron Fleming covered 25.8 miles in 4:50. Ted Lord and Ralph Willey completed 17.2 miles in 2:53 and 3:41 respectively. Eric Seale and Jeanie Kerr completed the 8.6 mile loop in 1:46 and 1:57 respectively. Both Eric and Jeannie are training for their first Medoc Trail 10-Miler.

Congrats to all finishers and thanks to the outstanding organizers. To view photos from the event check out Frank's Flicker Page.