big dog’s backyard ultra hour 19 begins:
now it truly feels like a satellite championship.
the word going around is that the irish team,
still with all 15 athletes moving,
is about to be evacuated due to weather….
something called storm ashley,
which i just read was packing winds up to 80 miles per hour.
i guess it wouldnt matter if they didn’t evacuate.
i dont think it would be possible to complete a yard in 80 mph winds!
that is hurricane force.
if it happens,
and it seems like it will,
that would leave slovakia, iceland, and netherlands still with complete teams in the mid-size division.
still including ireland for the moment
there are only 16 complete teams left.
brunei and cyprus have finished their races,
so we are down to 57 teams with someone still moving.
out of those teams,
579 individuals completed the 18th yard
which makes 75 miles.
as the hours stack one on top of another
it is a reinforcement of just how dam hard it is to run for 24 hours.
be that as it may,
around the world 579 satellite backyarders hit that 75 mile mark.
most of them are now running in daylight.
i wonder how many people are going to achieve 24 hour hundreds in the same 24 hour period…
is 500 possible?