by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
sadly we saw daniele lissoni of italy drop this hour. it was not that he couldn’t go on right now, but rather the belief he could not do the first trail loop in the morning. this knocks us down to 49. . loop 43 is a cause for celebration for one of our runners;...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
a clean hour coming up to midnight. of course it is not midnight for most of the field, for the japanese team it is early afternoon for the aussies and new zealanders it is late afternoon for the western europeans it is daybreak. . maybe the clean hour is because it...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
keith vangraafieland returned from yard 40 and did not finish it. this left 50 athletes to reach 40 hours. just another number with nothing to compare it to… . we have retired 1/3 of the runners i wonder if that means we have covered 1/3 of the distance? . camp...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
andres villagran of ecuador came in and rang the distance bell at the end yard 39. with two previous 38 hour backyards to his credit we figure he had been wanting to ring that bell for… . about 39 hours! then he retired to his tent and crawled in his sleeping...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 22, 2023 | Race Reports
branislav pavic never arrived at the turnaround. rumours floated around camp that he was to be found sleeping in his tent… . and, indeed, that is where he was found. the number of surviving runners dropped to 52. . those 52 just keep on going. included in their...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 22, 2023 | Race Reports
ritvars kalnins, the powerful latvian, missed the cutoff on 37. for him the end came quickly. canadian eric deshaies suffered a more lingering end, being another backyarder suffering from nausea. he returned after starting the 38th yard. switzerland’s nima...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 22, 2023 | Race Reports
the first night loop passed smoothly and cleanly. no one seems to be remotely near in trouble altho we all know how quickly that can change; after all, the runners are over 150 miles now. . most depressing observation of the hour; “we are about 1/3 of the...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 22, 2023 | Race Reports
once again the fall of darkness means firebuilding as well as a switch to the road. i am happy to report that the crews have a nice warm fire for the night… . all night. . the last stretch to the road was costly. kevin mccabe (USA) did not make the cutoff on 34....
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 22, 2023 | Race Reports
holding steady at 60 runners with now only two hours to reach the road. you can smell the anticipation. the field contains some committed trail runners, but at some point this week becomes about saving your body… , there is also a little bit of the craving to...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 22, 2023 | Race Reports
3 hours to the road, and all 60 runners got in and went out. in keeping with my race plan to survive for 120 hours i will take a second nap instead of make a longer update!
