Mountain Lakes 100 Weather Promise

Ever run in a typhoon? If you ran the inaugural Mountain Lakes 100 you may still be suffering post-traumatic stress from the weather. With 60 mph peak gusts and 5.5 inches of rain during the race, runners were definitely put to the test.

We ended up making the call to stop the race about 9:00 pm as we were losing communication with the HAM radio operators between aid stations, some runners were hypothermic, a tree blew down on a car and it was only getting worse.

Odds of another typhoon during this year’s race are extremely rare. But we understand that those who experienced that weather last year aren’t keen to take a chance this year. So we’ve come up a Weather Promise.

We are so sure the weather will be just fine this year that we will refund your money if we’re wrong. Here’s how it will work:

• You can buy the Weather Promise for $20. You can get it during registration, or if you’ve already registered, you can buy it in our Shop.
• This is available only until June 30, 2014.
• When the ten-day forecast for Olallie Lake on weather.com comes out (on 9/17/14 at 8:00 am), if both of the following predicted, you can get your registration fee back if you want:
• Chance of precipitation is greater than 75%
• High temperature forecast is below 50 degrees

So there you go; no excuses. The weather will be great for this race, or you don’t have to do it and you get your money back.