2024 VT100 Race Dedication
To All Those Who Helped with 2023’s Vermont Flooding Relief Efforts
Each year we dedicate our event to people, places, businesses, or other things that hold meaning to the Vermont 100. And for 2024, no one was more deserving of this acknowledgment and appreciation than the many wonderful volunteers who stepped up in to help with relief efforts when historic flooding devastated so many communities throughout the Green Mountain State in 2023.
For Over 30 Editions of the Vermont 100
The Vermont 100 has been welcomed into the nine (9) towns that the course passes through every year since its start in 1989 (the first foot race edition of the event, and the history goes back even further for the ride, to the 60s!).
Members of these communities we run through support us by volunteering at aid stations, putting their hoses out for runners on hot days, keeping troughs for horses to use during their ride, helping to clear and maintain trails, and numerous other ways throughout the year. For one weekend every year, each of us is a part of their community.
Unfortunately, these nine towns were devastated by flooding in July 2023, only days prior to the scheduled 2023 Vermont 100 start. Due to the flooding’s severity, the tough call was made to cancel the race as the area worked to recover and repair the damage.
In the wake of these floods, however, a silver lining appeared, and many within the Vermont 100 family volunteered to support these communities in their time of need.
Three Vermont 100 race committee members, Rob Mather*, Mike Silverman*, and Gary Richards*, immediately went to work to find how the VT100 could be most useful to the communities in need and then coordinated necessary assistance. They found houses for folks to muck out, families who needed their belongings sterilized, and places where the VT100 runner meals could instead be served to displaced residents and relief workers.
60+ members of the Vermont 100 family rolled up their sleeves and offered to help out on what would have bee race weekend. It was a beautiful display of all that makes the ultrarunning community special, as VT100 runners and riders, volunteers, committee members, and locals all worked together!
Our list of who helped out in 2024 is likely incomplete, but we’d like to thank everyone who helped out! Our 2024 event was in dedication to you! Below are the names we gathered. If you helped and don’t see yours, reach out and tell us! vt100@vermontadaptive.org
Thank You Thank You Thank You!
Kelly Stengel :: Tiany Sivco :: Anna Rizik :: Veronica :: Brendan Pytka :: Kehr Davis :: Brennen Lord :: Jennifer Hotaling :: Shawn Ingram :: Tek Ung :: Louiza Wise :: Chris Barry :: Peter Lawson :: Solice Reynoso :: Sarah Logan :: Jenny Royer :: Jacki Smith :: Courtney McKaig :: Sheri Smith :: Lily Weinstein Terry :: Eric Bauernschmidt :: Theresa Bauernschmidt :: Bauernschmidt kiddos :: Jack Scott :: Julie Higgins :: Rob Bayliss :: Steve Blasé :: Richard D. Godin :: Randy Patrick :: Cody McNeil :: Bruce Durgin :: Sean Meehan :: Todd Snell :: Emily Rose :: Paul Flanns :: Tracy Dahl :: Cody McNeil :: Jacki Smith :: Kathleen Cusick :: Sarah Weigel :: Lori Wetzel :: Tara Deeble :: Diane O’Toole :: Brandon J Baker :: Gary Richards :: Mike Silverman :: Rob Mather :: Bill Stillson :: Laura Farrell :: Jenny Kimberly :: Joe Holland :: Jim Eckert :: Lorinda Button :: Black River Produce :: Brownsville Butcher and Pantry
*In recognition of their immense efforts, Rob Mather received VT100’s 2024 Stoney Stone Award: For the Ultimate Volunteer; and Mike Silverman and Gary Richards received VT100’s 2024 Pinky Farrell and Jim Hutchinson Award: In memory of their belief and dedication to this event. For a complete list of award recipients over the years, visit https://vermont100.com/our-volunteers-are-rockstars/
The 2025 Vermont 100 is scheduled to happen July 18-20th.
If you would like to volunteer at our 2025 event, please check out all the opportunities available, perks, and how to get involved by visiting our volunteer page: https://vermont100.com/volunteer/. One way or another, we hope to see you at Silver Hill this July!