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so before i was interrupted i was going to talk about time and distance. . the journey runner develops a different relationship with time and distance. in normal running you think of a distance in terms of how fast you can run it. on a journey it becomes a matter of how many miles you can cover in a period of time like an hour….. . all day long. . sure, you can think of Read more…

day 9 begins. i am uncertain how much juice my laptop has left, so i will be brief. . looking at the folks on the bubble; the quarandillos have fallen a mile behind the reaper. odie and diane finished the night in a draw with the reaper, still 7 miles off the pace……. jim cook just finished (no photo available) time: 8:00:15:22 “I always thought a race’s difficulty was based on distance, terrain and weather. Read more…

there are a lot fewer runners on the road tonight. 29 have dropped. 18 have finished. 28 of the original 75 remain in motion. always moving towards the rock. a long line of limping, weary souls who have faced now nearly 8 days  since they were dumped beside the road in gaffney south carolina. . the last few are nearing the tennessee line. the piedmont is behind them the appalachians are behind them now kimsey Read more…

just a quick note from the rock. . melissa gave up the struggle last night. there are now 29 among the lost. tony, on the other hand, has rocketed up in the field and out of danger from the reaper. . there are 4 just behind the reaper now; diana and odie, jamie and josh. . they continue to live their lives in 12 hour increments. survive one and you get to do another…. . Read more…

for 6 and a half days the hots runners have lived beside the road they have climbed mountains and crossed rivers they have gone without food and water for many long and difficult miles they have been through ferocious thunderstorms blazing heat and freezing cold. they have endured unbearable pain and utter exhaustion. their feet are bags of misery their legs bundles of aching muscles and swollen tendons. but on they go. . on and Read more…

well, here it is pretty late. not really sure what time it is (my phone is not sure either) since we keep bouncing back and forth between eastern and central time. . i know it wont be long before kim wakes us back up to go see her finish. we spent a long day at the rock as some of todays finishers were reduced to less than a mile an hour except curtis whose final Read more…

watching anxiously for the updates to start coming in. the entire course was hammered with heavy rains last night, but the rain is passing over the last runners at the back as the 6th day begins. jim must have stopped in trenton because he only started up sand mountain a little over an hour ago. curtis barton is now showing in second only 5 miles behind. . that would have meant a 46 mile night Read more…