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Nearly all day we waited for the next finisher, Salt Shack snuck under 5.5 days. The cagey veteran missed his lofty time goal, but still managed his 5th! volstate finish. The top 10 are in. But 75 runners are still strung out over the last 160 miles. Doing the work necessary to get that same finish! Kim Durst has put together a solid sub-6 day 500km, as long as nothing crazy happens. and we look Read more…

5 days down, 5 days to go. The early morning saw the podium filled out King Grant Rhoda Andrea Brian and Alan nipped a severely struggling Regina To round out the sub-5 finishes. Rich Flint pushed all day and night, but came up 19 minutes shy of a sub-5, but had the consolation of a sub-5 in a prior year. Then JT Hardy and Doug Long finished their 160 mile companionship with stellar 5:01:xx finishes. Read more…

Alan Abbs (screwed) was resting in the community aid station at Pin Oak Elementary, about mile 100. They had a less hot place for the runners to lay down under an awning… Andrea Kooiman walked in and started attending to her needs, with her crew helping. After a bit, she reached down and picked up a water bottle (Alan’s) and took a big swig. “that’s not cranberry juice!” she exclaimed. “that was my gatorade….that I Read more…

After King Grant finished this morning, we saw a 12 hour gap to the next runners. Andrea and Rhoda appeared on a collision course between monteagle and The Rock. Driving back through the field, we saw Andrea maintaining her lead across the plataeu between Tracy City and Jasper…but Rhoda was within 2 miles and appeared to be charging. Both crews assured me, “this is a race!” Driving back to monteagle, we saw Regina struggling with Read more…

The three crewed ladies all want that 2nd place spot. Rhoda Smoker started the morning behind the other two, but across the Jasper Plateau she’s charged. Beginning the descent to Jasper, she looked strong and she’s got a quarter mile lead over Andrea K. Regina has been plagued by a bad stomach since last night, and has fallen back, just leaving Tracy City. Trinkle and Abbs are big question marks….driving back thru Monteagle twice, we Read more…

i miss seeing the end-game strategy unfold…. from the podium placers all the way back to oprah! go get ‘em vol staters (especially dale and ben…the pride of short creek) laz   Admin:  Laz has been too busy to check the latest standings.   Dale dropped in Linden / 84 hours.