the journey really starts tomorrow, . i will be up before the sun, heading high into the north georgia mountains to a parking lot cut into a cornfield on a remote mountaintop. . there i will meet a hundred hopeful runners. a few are elite multi-day athletes but most are Read more…
screwed . it is that time of the year again, when the tiresome discussion over what constitutes running “screwed” in the vol state begins. . of course, there are no divisions kept in the results and even tho there seems to be a predictable call for us to parse rules Read more…
Just a note to the HOTS enthusiasts…. Carl and I have thrashed out the 2022 course, and it is a thing of beauty. historic sites and sights, unique geological features, breathtaking scenery, small towns, soon to be discovered angels, lots of wide shoulders, and (as always) a few surprises. We Read more…
silence on the rock. . all is quiet in the little clearing in the woods. the tents are gone the campfire is out. no sound of laughter no stories being told. . the footprints in the corn are filling with sand, and the parking lot is empty. . the last Read more…
12 hours to go. 5 runners left. . 0ver the long night ahead 5 weary warriors soldier on. everyone is now ahead of the reaper. . the last 4 are barely ahead, but they have done what had to be done over the past 12 hours, as they have been Read more…
here we are. 24 hours to go. . all the remaining runners are in the home stretch. we still have a little time before the next one arrives at the finish, but after that they should be coming in the rest of the day. . after all of us got Read more…
possible incoherence here. it has been so long since i actually laid down and slept that i am not sure what day it was. . things are into the final 36 hours and the last races are crystalizing. . dan chapman is the next runner on the road right now. Read more…
so before i was interrupted i was going to talk about time and distance. . the journey runner develops a different relationship with time and distance. in normal running you think of a distance in terms of how fast you can run it. on a journey it becomes a matter Read more…