Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile Run

What are my chances of getting in from the waiting list?

You can use the following information to judge how good your chances are of moving from the waiting list to be among the entrants for the 2008 edition of the MMT 100.

For the 2007 MMT 100, we reached our limit of 160 participants by December 9. (Entry opened on December 1 in 2007.) As a result, we had a waiting list beginning in December.

Last year there were a 56 people who were on the waiting list at some point. We had a total of 38 of the original entrants to the MMT 100 withdraw. (That was nearly 25 percent of the original field.) This meant that 38 people from the waiting list eventually became entrants. But, these were not the first 38 people on the waiting list! This is due to the fact that we had 16 people withdraw from the waiting list, mainly because they didn't want to wait anymore. That meant that the person who was 54th among all of those who were on the waiting list was eventually able to enter the MMT 100. In fact, of the total of 56 people who were on the waiting list last year, only two did not make it into the event or withdraw from the waiting list.

Withdrawals from the race occur mainly due to injury, and runners who are injured early – December, January - assume that they will heal before MMT. Most wait as long as possible before withdrawing. The table above from 2007 shows that most withdrawals occur close to the run.

So, if you are on the waiting list, it may take quite a while before you are moved to the entrants list.