West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners

9:00AM – 10K RUN & 2M WALK START
8:45AM – KIDS RUN
Helvetia, West Virginia

Sponsored by the Helvetia Fair Association and the WV Mountain Trail Runners

Welcome to the 11th running of the Helvetia 10k Mountain Run. The race is held in conjunction with the 94th Annual Helvetia Fair. More information on Fair activities below.

In 1998 Jody and Dan Lehmann with the help of friends and neighbors organized this event in their small mountain community of Helvetia. It was their first attempt at race directing. The run and walk has never outgrown the village but continues to bring about 70 runners to enjoy the simple beauty of this spot in southern Randolph County. All proceeds go to benefit the Helvetia Community Fair Association. Continue Reading »

The Mountain State Trail Running Series standings are posted. The first three spring races are in the books and Ashley Dolin and Michael Bee are leading the pack. The scoring system takes uses points from your four best races and with four races left it isn’t too late to sign up. The next race is the very festive Helvetia 10K on Spetember 14th.

(Start by JR Petsko)

After a week of relentless rain the clouds parted for the 5th Annual Dirty Dog 15K Trail Run. Kanawha State Forest is a perfect venue for trail races and Saturday was no exception. The break in the weather gave the trails just enough time to drain, but left it nice and muddy. 144 humans and canines toed the line on Saturday to tackle the challenging course

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Just three more weeks until the 6th running of the Highlands Sky 40M! If you’re thinking of signing-up, DO IT! You don’t want to miss out on running one of the most beautiful and challenging courses on the East-Coast. Also, I heard that Dan Lehmann has ordered up good weather this year.

Just 3 months to go until the inaugural running of the Cheat Mountain Moonshine Madness 50 Miler. We’re only taking 100 people and the entrants are starting to pour in. Get in while there’s still a spot to run through the night!

I decided last December that I was going to do Massanutten as my first 100 miler. Little did I know that the race would essentially begin on that ill-fated winter day so far away from the proposed May 17 start. Merely signing up became a race as the race closed in a matter of hours. After being lucky (or unlucky as I felt a few times Sat. night) enough to be on the entrants list, I planned a few weekend trips over to VA to make sure I knew the entire course and what to expect. After seeing the entire course, I had a very healthy respect for it. Lots of long climbs and tons of the infamous MMT rocks made me have a few doubts in the recesses of my brain about my sanity in choosing this race as my first go at 100 miles. Nonetheless, I decided to train very hard and be ready to run on May 17. My confidence grew as I secured a stellar crew, pacer, and fueling plan. All that was left on race-day was to put one foot in front of the other for 101.8 miles….just that easy.

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