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HOTS UPDATE 108 HOURS: when does the easy part begin?.what started out as the best weather of the entire event(overcast skies and mild temperatures)would take an ugly turn later in the afternoon….the rains returned..the entire length of the course is now getting hitwith what seems to be an endless stream of stormscoming up out of the gulf from alabama, miss’ippi,and louisianaand traveling north-northeast across tennessee.this is not a slow drizzling rain,but rather pockets of intense Read more…

on the tracker you see the cutoff represented by the total distance divided by 10.5.but the runners have a list of cutoffs that vary slightly,ranging from 1-3 miles short of the cutoffs done by straight math…..these cutoffs are represented by places on the mapthat make logical endpoints for sections of the course….it wouldnt make any sense to pull a runner because they stopped at a place to sleep or eatthat was one mile short of Read more…

HOTS UPDATE: 96 HOURS: this is monday… right?.four days they have been on the road.four days of winnowing has reduced the number from 109 to 90..bleary eyed, sore footed,limping and shufflingthey move on….it is all they knowit is their world..weaving, winding.small towns come and goperiodically the long trek thru a larger cityverdant forestsrolling pasturelandrushing streams,and roiling rivers….everything passes beneath their feet.and something new is around every bend..it has been 4 days since they startedthey remember Read more…

HOTS UPDATE 84 HOURS: three and a half days out here, and you can give your therapist advice.the team of zemach and wheatley have taken control(for the time being)265 miles out, they have passed santa fe and are on the homestretch to colombia!addison hendricks’ charge last night petered out during the long hot dayand now he heads into the night 18 miles behind.past bon aqua and heading into a fairly flat,if desolatecrossing of the northwest Read more…

HOTS UPDATE 72 HOURS: the tools we have today! . the sun rose on a bedraggled field of hotties. but for the first time since the race began it was not raining on anyone! . the tattered remnants of the system that has been tormenting them is drifting off to the northeast. another major rain event has formed out in oklahoma, but it seems to be dropping down into texas instead of barreling across arkansas Read more…

HOTS UPDATE 60 HOURS: the long, wet line goes on.during the third day the eye of the weather pattern that has defined hots 2025 continued to move east,finally the heavy rains coming from the south moved off of the hotties.this did not mean the end of the rain.the clouds cycling back down on the backside still had water in them.but the rain was more sporadic,and the intensity was diminished..unfortunately for the road warriors,this was still Read more…

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…