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!" . and so came the thing every runner hates most. back over the 5 miles he had just run, do the missed section and then 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 goes; "there is discomfort involved" . there are others i would have told; "you are in over your head" there have been many over the 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 Clarke both were running at a pretty good clip (and that is a long, hard climb!) . some combination of kyle kalbus, jeff stafford, and Read more…
We wanted all of the folks at home to share some of the fun and spirit (and mystery) of HOTS this year. So the map will be a little different… . The course will not be marked on the map. At first checkin in the morning you will see all of the runners clustered at the start on an otherwise ordinary map. You can guess how they are getting from there to the rock. . Read more…
there are 3 sections of the course that cars cannot do. if you decide to quit on one of those sections you will have to get back to an actual road first.
we will do an hour 0 post on the public map showing all the bread crumbs massed at the start! every 12 hours thereafter showing the breadcrumbs slowly spreading out on the road! . second: at the last supper everyone will line up to receive their map, promise not to reveal it, and indicate their number of biscuits for in the morning… . the store will be making extra biscuits to cover us! . for Read more…