by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
the 47 all went out again. i am getting ever more excited about the number of people about to log a sub 48 hour time for 200 miles. . for most runners the time between midnight and dawn is the hardest to run. it takes a special mindset to maintain a steady performance...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
the 47 all cleared another yard. sunrise is less than three hours away. it will mark the beginning of the third day… . and a return to the feared trails! . not everyone fears the trails. team mexico cut their teeth on trails that could have big’s trail for...
by Lazarus Lake | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
we got thru clean this time. 47 runners are now less than 4 hours from getting 200 miles in 48 hours. there has never been anything like that before. . i wish i could give a longer update but i want to try for my third 30 minute nap. . i know 3 thirty minute naps in...
by Naresh KN | Oct 23, 2023 | Race Reports
we lost a couple more. jason bigonia from the us turned around and didnt finish 43. nederlander roman packbier quit after 43. both of them referenced a fear of returning to the trail. . meanwhile, this is the yard for thembi to break the south african record that he...
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...
