General Info
Hello beautiful people, this is your new RD for this year’s edition of THNGVBD - Sylvie (don’t worry, your OG RD Duke Hong will hopefully still show up haha). This is still a glorified fatass run, but we do have a permit for 50 official participants this year (I know, what’s next you’re thinking Duke should have just sold this whole thing to UTMB). In case these spots fill up you can still participate and donate, and even though you won’t get an official ultrasignup result, you will get a warm feeling, trashed quads and many Strava kudos. This year we will be raising money for Healing Hounds Dog Rescue https://healinghoundsrescue.org/home/ - they are located in SoCal (like your favorite RD Duke Hong), we’ve been following their hard work for a while now and felt like they deserve our help. Your race fee will cover insurance for this event (which is required by the park and comes up to about $300 for the day) but the majority of your race fee is going to the rescue. A tiny portion of your race fee will go to some very modest finisher’s swag we may have. This is a strictly non profit event, we do it for the love of dogs and Dogmeat haha.
Now what in the world is Dogmeat? Dogmeat is a beloved local climb with about 1000ft of vert in 1,5 miles. The trail is officially called Priestrock - Dogmeat is only the upper part of Priestrock trail (start by the Lexington reservoir, hike Limekiln trail for about 2 miles to the intersection with Priestrock, set up your things and start your steep repeats).
The 50k option
10,900 ft gain in 50k (32 miles)
10 repeats of Dogmeat
The 30k (18 mile) Fun Run option
6,035 ft gain in almost 30k (18.2 miles)
5 repeats of Dogmeat
The Puppymeat (10 miler) option is a little over 3,000ft and 2 repeats of Dogmeat.
Rules will be similar to years prior. We may have a small aid station at the intersection where Dogmeat starts (if we get volunteers to do it), but you should rely on your own food and water that you haul up. We may have snacks, but will NOT have water for you. Pack your own food and water up Limekiln to the saddle at the Priest Rock junction below Dogmeat and crew yourself. It’s permitted to get a friend/crew to haul your stuff for you to the intersection, you can have a pacer the whole time, poles and well behaved dogs are also ok.
The only cuttoff is the end of the day, you must complete your entire run on Saturday - please know this may take a lot longer than your typical 50k. 8 to 12 hours is normal, so plan accordingly. Should you decide to dnf you have to get yourself back to your car. We will not have the option of extracting you.
Date March 29th, 2025
Start time: ANY time of your choosing ON SATURDAY, but we will have a little group start at 7:30am for those of you who choose to show up at that time.
Start place. Limekiln trailhead -(google map)
Since this is a non-supported event, runners may begin on their own at any time.
Timing: The only time that we will record on ultrasignup is your Dogmeat repeats. We don’t care how slow or fast you make it up Limekiln, all we care about is your Strava file with your Dogmeat repeats. You must complete the 2x, 5x or 10x segment to get an official result. Do not pause your watch at any time or you will not get the segment. You are responsible for counting your own Dogmeats and submitting your Strava file to the RD.
All money that doesn’t get used for insurance and swag will be donated and proof of your donations will be available here in the photo gallery after race day.
Now go run! See you on Dogmeat!
Parking info
Parking is fairly limited by the Limekiln trailhead, please consider carpooling or parking at the paid parking lot by the reservoir (about 0.6 miles walk to the trailhead on the road).
Prizes
Prizes? Seriously? What's better than running up Dogmeat ten times?
Ok, we may actually have something in store for the winners from the amazing brand Katemi founded by Katherina Laan and Emi Yasaka, can’t wait!
Event's current local time: 3:40 AM PT
