Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is another

classic edition of the Long Run Archives, and this one I'm joined by Brett Hornig and Jeff Colt to recap

the JFK50 and Ultrachel Cape Town 100K that took place this past weekend before going off on an

assortment of random topics in classic archives fashion.

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off your next order. With that, let's get on to this episode. We're back. Another episode of the

long run archives joined by colleagues, friends, Brett Hornig, Jeff Colt.

I got to lead us off with my mystery topic. I don't know if you guys have been following this,

but vertical backyard ultra. Have you guys been following this Mount Ascutty, vertical backyard ultra that took place this past weekend? This is actually the first time I'm hearing of this.

Same. All right. Nice work bringing this one to the table. Let's go. Okay. So the two race directors, Eli Barakian and Justin Chapman. I think they're based in Vermont or New Hampshire, not sure. But Mount Escutney is right on the Vermont, New Hampshire border. And basically what these two guys have done is they've taken the standard backyard ultra format,

which is start on the hour, every hour, go until there's only one person left.

They've taken that concept and just put it on an uphill.

And so I think the distance here, I have this written down, each lap is two and a quarter

miles long, and it's exactly 1,209 feet of vertical gain per lap.

And the reason it's specific there is because they want to give people who make it to 24 hours, the chance to say they've Everested.

That gets you up to the total height of Everest.

Did they come back down?

And they come back down.

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