more or loess

july 12 day 64 25 miles total 1,680 it boggles the mind to think that all these big hills are just made of windblown silt! i have been running up and down the loess hills for 3 days! except for a few hours crossing the missouri river basin. it is the glaciers again. after the ice dam broke on the giant glacial lake it left an enormous amount of silt which dried and blew down Read more…

Vol State 2018 – Update 0 – exactly what they came here for

115 volstaters answered the call from the landing in Dorena this morning at 0741. 113 of them even managed to get to The Ferry in time for the official start. The morning tractor trailer traffic between Hickman, KY and Union CIty, TN is not singing their praises right now….but the runners are off. Most of them still on course record pace. In a few minutes, the leaders will reach a huge milestone….less than 300 miles Read more…

Vol State 2018 – Update 00 – just getting to the start can be an ultra

It took us 10 hours and 15 minutes to drive the vol state course today. The screwed runners meet at the finish line, leave their cars, and we load into buses and vans for the long haul across the state to Union City and The Last Supper. We stop for a couple pee breaks, and lunch catered at The Bench of Despair. 300 miles is just a really, really long way… “Ditch” as we’re calling Read more…

loess hillbilly

july 11 day 63 31 miles (in honor of the vol staters) total 1,655 respect the hills of west iowa. having moved past glacier-dozed central iowa i found some sweet hills in the west finishing with the windblown loess hills. loess is a fine silty soil and very rich. where it blew in from no one seems to know. so why not blame canada? after all it is their granite stones i saw cluttering up Read more…