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the vole stare toad race after 24 hours:.the sky is off script..watching the weather radar tracking last night was almost comical.it would have been easy to think the whole thing was deliberate,as we watched a line of thunderstorms cross the miss’ippiand sweep down the vol state course,with the largest, purplest storm cell tracking exactly down the route of the race.it was uncanny..but there was a saving grace.the tail end of the rain was projected to Read more

reality didnt come knocking,it kicked down the door..what a lovely ferry ride we had this morning.it was cool and misty.the breeze off the water was perfect;just short of jacket temperature…..and then the ferry landed…i had left early to scout,because we knew there were issues from road construction and landslides in hickman.i was confident we could get a bunch of people on foot thru town.but we needed to be sure of the bus route….it was a Read more

there are a lot of nervous runners in union city tonight.tossing and turning in unfamiliar beds..but that is ok.at least they are in beds!.more than most of them will be able to say this time tomorrow night.for, in the morning, around 120 hopeful vol staters will run down the bank of the miss’ippi river at dorena landing missouri,and board a ferry bound for hickman kentucky..there, it will disgorge them into hell….their goal?a remote mountaintop in Read more

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 into the walk i was trying to decide if i was hearing high flying airliners, distant trains, or far away thunder.pretty quickly i concluded it 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 making the race that much more dangerous for everyone..real road angels are the people along the coursewho have set up places off the road,ranging from Read more