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HOTS UPDATE 48 HOURS every day is easier than the day before!.the sun came up with james turner still holding a lead!not only that,he was at 131 milesand fast approaching the state line between hopkinsville kentucky and clarksville tennessee!it looks like a lead pipe cinch jim will be the first to enter tennessee!.ken zemach had, indeed, cut another 8 miles off the lead,and is now with crystal wheatley in hopkinsvilletrailing turner by 11 miles..addison hendricks Read more…

HOTS UPDATE 36 hours is a day and a half!.as the sun approached the horizon on day twothe leaders were emerging from the vortex of rain.finally they had run all the way across the circling band of rain,and clear skies were visible ahead…..they could only pray that the system would not decide to start moving eastand cover them again..as the day had worn on there were more and more windows of no rain,and even a Read more…

HOTS 24 HOUR UPDATE more fun than any human has ever had.as favorable as the weather was yesterday,last night made up for it.a lovely weather pattern settled on the hotsers….the inland hurricane pattern.a huge mass of air is making a giant circle around somewhere in central missouruh,dipping down to the gulf to collect millions of tons of waterand then dropping that on western kentucky and southern illinois on the way upcircling over missouruh and heading Read more…

local people who find out about the race by meeting the runners or by word of mouth, and perform acts of kindness giving the runners food or water, putting a cooler out by the road with treats in it, or other such acts of kindness… . are road angels. and they bring magic to the race. . ultrarunners who read about the race, figure out where the runners are and rush in from out of Read more…

sorry for another late update, but we went down to the ferry to watch the drama as closing time neared. we just missed seeing the ferry leave with crystal wheatley and kate sidoli as two women led the way to the ferry over an hour before closing. . while we watched the ferry returning from dropping off the women first james turner, and then just before the ferry got back michael wilson arrived at the Read more…

what a relief it had to be when we finally set the hotsers out beside the road, and they could begin the long trek to the rock. . the excitement of the 400 crowd was palpable as they clambered up the grassy knoll and started across the bill emerson bridge over the miss’ippi. and it was a pretty grand sight, as they began stringing out even as we drove past them to ferry the 350 Read more…

twas the night before bus ride and all thru the motel not a runner was sleeping all preparing for hell. the backpacks they filled up with exquisite care in hopes that the things they need all would be there. the runners were tossing restless in their beds while visions of slim jims danced in their heads. and jan in the meatwagon and i in my car. were hoping the quitters would not be too far.