it is july in tennessee….it rained again last nightin the accelerating pattern of evaporation and rain.i dont know what the “air temperature” was this morning,but the humidity had reached the saturation point,and with the sun beating down the evaporating moisture was like a thin fog that filled the air..30 minutes Read more
dont be a fake angel!.i hate to have to post this….but:it is not 1980 any more,and every year the traffic on tennessee roads gets heavier.and every year we have people who drive vast distances because they want to somehow be a part of this..they drive up and down the road Read more
well, it all comes down to this.the last call in has been made.the surviving vol staters still on the course have turned off the 12 hour alarmsthat have notified them to check in over the past nine and a half days..the line of runners that started with 129 hopefuls at Read more
Need I say more?Can’t say much!.Looks like storms all day on the rock..Brandy Davis topped monteagle and dropped.Terrie, Erin, and James were still moving.Rain on course only from jasper on right now.So the ones coming thru tracy city and across the Cumberland plateau only have their existing problems to deal Read more
the parade is in full swing.27 people finished during day 8,and 16 more joined them during the first 12 hours of day 9..32 runners are still out there on the course,striving to answer the call of the rock..and at the rock,this is an exhausting timebut so rewarding..the innocent faces on Read more
two days to go..the most amusing comment i have seen was several days ago,after addison finished in first place.essentially it said;“75 miles a day,that isnt so hard.you just have to walk 15 minute miles….with lots of time left over to rest”.this has been the kind of calculation that prospective vol Read more
seven and a half days are done.the first place i look now is the back..we have 6 vol staters who have fallen 4 miles behind oprah.this is a problem for them.they need 16 miles tonight to reach the hard cutoff of the 55/41 intersection in manchester..these are hard times at Read more
the lives of the race staff and the vol staters have converged.everything is noticeably compressing every 12 hours.the tail end of the packmoved to shelbyville last night….this morning found hal fuqua struggling back at wheel.and the meat wagon is searching for him to execute an extraction.the morning sun struck the Read more