this is madness..all 23 finished the third 100 mile day in a row. only australian james blanton stoppede. so 22 people, nearly a third of the field have begun a 4th hundred miler. . but what is really insane is how good they all look, harvey blew through camp at abut...

before this hour is over there will be light. i cant wait for daylight so at least i know the things i see are really there. things i am sure were not there include; the stream of wriggling red worms spilling down the side of the toilet (went away when i squeezed my...

two more hours until the sun comes up and it cant come too soon. the struggle to keep eyes open has become a universal reality in big's yard this third night. . much will be revealed by the return of the sun. exactly how much damage has been wrought by this third...

tobbe gyllebring stopped after 69 leaving 23 to head into the 70th hour.hey are now only 3 hours from collecting a third consecutive 24 hour 100 miler. . the unsung heroes of this blood sport are the crews. waiting patiently for their runners at the end of every yard...

what will happen, we wondered when all these athletes who never surrender meet in the same place? . what happens is a long and bloody war of attrition. what happens is that competitors do not quit in their chair. they keep stepping to the line until they physically...

it is like hammering away blocks of granite. the 26 just keep lining up and running. you can look through the field and see that most of them are hurt to some degree or another. logic alone tells you everyone has suffered at least some damage. the 26 ran a sub 24 hour...

we lost yukinori yoshida this hour when he could not get back in time. so now there are 26 runners steadily closing on 300 miles less than a marathon away. . the distance bell had been mostly quiet the first couple of days. not surprising when you consider the...

hello, i am back. it took a while to shake off the cobwebs after 40 glorious minutes of sleep but i feel like a new man! . the 27 surviving runners can only be described one way. they are hard. there is not a second wasted when they come in off their loops and it...

nothing seems quite real in the night. i am standing at the scorers table i know what to do watch the clock and blow the whistle a few shadowy figures are moving in the darkness at the edge of the area illuminated by the light in the tent. i have to concentrate on the...