Announcing 2020 Catamount Adventure!

We’re excited to share that we’ll be sponsoring a drop-in ‘bite size’ adventure at the Catamount Community Forest in Williston, Vermont. This is a great opportunity to get out into the woods, enjoy the fall leaves, and improve your navigation skills. There will be points on both bike and foot – you can choose to […]

2020 Bitter Pill Update

It has become apparent that we simply will not be able to host the Bitter Pill this year. Try as we might, aligning a suitable location, dinner plan, transition areas, etc., all while maintaining reasonable distancing – while also having places for enough people to stay…well, safe to say that while perhaps possible, it isn’t […]

2020 GMARA Race Schedule Update

We’ve been receiving a lot of email lately about the 2020 race schedule, particularly since the Frigid Infliction is typically just around the corner in early March. For those looking for the regular crop of GMARA events, this will be a good news, bad news post. First the bad news. We will not be hosting […]

Bitter Pill 2019 Results

Bitter Pill Team Update #3

We’re just a few short days away! We’ve closed registration (congrats to one team squeaking in under the wire) and are putting the finishing touches on everything. A few notes to pay attention to: – Registration closes at 9pm Friday evening. Normally we can extend this a bit but we’ll be more limited this time. […]

Bitter Pill Team Update #2

We have less than two weeks to go and things are coming together nicely. The map is finalized, checkpoints are nailed down, shirts are ordered, permits & insurance are in hand, boats are orchestrated, and volunteers are being mobilized. We’ve enjoyed seeing teams continue to register. We are closing registration on Friday, so tell your […]

Registered For This Year’s Bitter Pill? If Not, Read This!

The course is nicely coming together for this summer’s Bitter Pill. Teams will be in some woods rarely traveled (and certainly never in an adventure race) and on all sorts of different mountain biking, a portion of which we’d wager a small sum has never seen a bike before. Rates go up on July 21st […]

Bitter Pill Team Update #1

Teams, The course is nicely coming together for this summer’s Bitter Pill. Teams will be in some woods rarely traveled (and certainly never in an adventure race) and on all sorts of different mountain biking, a portion of which we’d wager has never seen a bike before. Be prepped for a small-ish portion of navigating […]

A Brief Summer Test Your Nettle Update

The race course for the Bitter Pill is coming together nicely; we’ll have folks in woods that are rarely visited and certainly never part of an adventure race. Yes! The course design, unfortunately, doesn’t make it easy to facilitate a Test Your Nettle event this summer. If you’re super interested, we can do an unofficial […]

2019 Bitter Pill – Registration Open!

Registration is open for the Bitter Pill! August 10th near Waterbury VT: hike, bike, paddle, maybe a swim if you’re unlucky. Early registration pricing is the best deal – sign up by next Saturday (May 10th) to lock in the best rate. It’s likely we’ll have to cap entries based on the number of boats […]