HOTS update 60 hours . slow and fast . the most surprising thing about a race like this is how fast the field moves. bob has been torching the course and has gone all the way thru knoxville and is already at loudon. but bob moves fast. the tail end Read more…
48 hours update (2) . real is too real . the third sunrise can be a time of reckoning. this third sunrise is turning into a disaster for some. after two days and two nights on the road that third morning is cruxial. only one person has reached the halfway Read more…
HOTS update 48 hours . part 1: the big dance. . the bailout is not simple. there are three of us and three vehicles trying to maintain some reasonable distance from the runners so that drops can be retrieved from the road and returned to the rock as expediently as Read more…
HOTS update 36 hours: . halfway thru the second day and things are taking all sorts of twists and turns. there cant be any bigger news than bob hearn’s morristown mistake. 5 miles past morristown it suddenly dawned on him; "oh crap. i was supposed to run the elevated sidewalks!" Read more…
HOTS 24 hour update: . now there are 80…. . it is not my place to tell people what they cannot do. if it was i would probably have told the first two drops; "you are in over your head" . this is not an easy game. as the saying Read more…
this really should be called the update at 5 hours because it has been that long since we saw a runner. the last one was bob hearn, nearing the top of the climb of the mountain on the east side of shady valley. he was being hotly pursued by john Read more…