2025 Report

What a Fantastic group of runners for the 2025 Chocolate Bunny! It was unusually warm for the Bunny, but that made for perfect training for the MMT 100. Huge Thanks to all the great Volunteers from start to finish! I have always said VHTRC will spoil you! Thanks again for everyone for coming out!

[Editor’s Note: And a huge thanks to the VHTRC’s Head Bunny, Larry Tumblin, for once again being a dedicated and amiable host for the 2025 Chocolate Bunny. Larry has organized this final event in the Massanutten Training Academy series for several years now, and if anything he has brought it up to a new level of popularity with new runners to the Massanuttens as well as trail vets alike.

The Chocolate Bunny started at 7 PM on the Saturday evening before Easter, as per tradition. Of the 54 who were registered, 40 made it out for the run (along with two “bandits”). The aid station times below were entered as Time of Day, with each runner’s complete running time noted in the final column, as well. Runners with a double asterisk behind their name took advantage of an alternate 6 PM start option, so their arrival times should be noted with that extra hour in mind. The handful of runners who took the “Party Route” from the Massanutten Visitor’s Center directly back to the Route 211 commuter lot start/finish area, without climbing Bird Knob and coming back through Brown’s Hollow, are noted with 17.42 mile finishing distances, (despite what their personal Garmin track may have read).]

Results

Aid was provided at the following locations:
Aid 1, Gap Creek - 6.7 miles
Aid 2, Visitor’s Center - 15.2 miles
Finish, Route 211 Lot - 25.95 miles

And here is our usual admonition regarding the “results” below… Bear in mind: this is not a competitive event. No one treated this as a competitive event. These should not be considered “competitive event results.” The times are provided for informational purposes only. This can help others who pull the route from the event site and run the course self-supported, so that those runners can approximate times. It can assist those considering this training run in future years to estimate their own run times. And it is helpful for volunteers to see the range of times that runners take to cover certain sections.