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
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