all day the runners have been arriving at the rock.so many happy facesso many personal victories….so many reasons that people choose to face the vol state.it is impossible not to feel renewed by the joy at the finish lineas each runner comes intakes their seat on the thrownand tells their Read more…
24 hours to go.after 9 days on the roadit has come down to this…..24 people have 24 hours to reach the rock.with battered feet and bleary eyes they face one last dawn..this final band of vol staters;spread out from sand mountain to tracy city;they trudge onward..they have been winnowed down Read more…
i apologize for the lateness of this update.with rain falling at the finish areai chose to leave my electronics safely in the car..we now have 57 finishers in,and 24 runners still on course..with 36 (now 31) hours to goand off and on cold rain no one has left the clarion Read more…
the longest day;.48 hours remain for the 37 surviving vol staters to reach the rock.(less by the time this is posted)8 are out on the longest 14 miles.the last two are dancing with oprah back in manchester..while their recorded times may differ on the resultsall the vol staters finish in Read more…
vole stare toad race: 180 hours update:.60 hours to go.for us on the rock it is roughly the same length of time as the barkley remaining.this race is not easy for anyone.runners are erxhaustedroad angels are exhaustedthe race staff is exhausted….and i dont think exhausted is a strong enough word Read more…
vole stare toad race: 168 hour update.it has been going on for a week now.28 have made it to the rock53 are still on the road..i will be truly surprised if any of them quit.every one of them is damaged.some of them have taken a real beating.there is still a Read more…
19 have finished40 have quit62 vol staters remain on the road after 6.5 days..after nearly a week the weather seems to have broke today.after a blistering hot morningthe afternoon was filled with popup thunderstorms..the cloud cover and breezes actually felt quite good.unless you happened to be caught in one of Read more…
the vol stater was sitting on a curb in front of a gas station in a small rural town.on day 2 she had gotten extreme chafingso she stopped at a store that had only mens boxer briefs underwear.she needed something so she bought themcut the liner out of her shorts Read more…