RIF #1 Joshua Holmes at the rock!
They are finishing fast and furious now. Well, relatively speaking. 🙂 But 3 runners finished over night and under the 6 day mark! Sadly, it looks like we lost another runner. Dusty Hardman dropped at 210 miles due to an injury. It was a tough day for a lot of people, let’s hope today is a better one for them out on the course.
I hope you’ll keep checking back throughout the day and until the last runner is in!
Links you might find fun/useful:
To catch up on previous days: Day1 Day2 Day3 Day4 Day5 Day6
Last Annual Volstate 500K Spreadsheet & Map – for runner tracking (updated twice a day).
Carl’s 2013 Last Annual Volstate 500K Album, Day 2 Drive Thru, and Day 3 Photos
Twitter:
RunItFast: @runitfast
Joshua Holmes: @bayou
Shannon Burke: @s4121burke
Dallas Smith: @smithbend
VS500: #VS500 or #VS500K
Facebook:
UltraJoshua – Facebook page for Joshua Holmes
Last Annual Vol State Road Race – Facebook page for VS500K
So far today:
Facebook post by Diane Bolton’s crew, Phil Min, earlier today showing life on the road for a VS500K runner:
Tweet from Dallas at 8:44 pm:
Lisa: Here are the Top 10, Top 3 Women, and Team Standings as of the 156 Hour Update:
Top 10
1. Joe Fejes – 314 miles (Done! 3 days 8 hours 10 min 16 sec)
2. Alan Abbs – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 11 hours 31 min 27 sec
3. Sung Ho Choi – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 13 hours 39 min 52 sec)
4. John Fegyveresi – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 16 hours 19 min 1 sec)
5. Sal Coll – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 5 hours 52 min 42 sec)
6. Brad ComptonJim Ball – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 20 hours and 47 sec)
7. Jim Ball – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 21 hours and 20 sec)
8. Joshua Holmes – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 23 hours 17 min 7 sec)
9. Richard Westbrook – 314 miles (Done! 6 days 4 hours 56 min 16 sec)
10. Joel Gat – 314 miles (Done! 6 days 9 hours 8 min 35 sec)
Top 3 Women
1. Sherry Meador – 292 miles
2. Diane Bolton – 256 miles
3. Psyche Wimberly – 244 miles
Teams
1. Team Stinky Feet – 314 miles (Done! 2 days 19 hours 14 min 17 sec)
2. Team Country Gentlemen – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 4 hours 5 min 46 sec)
3. Team Two Step – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 12 hours 29 min 12 sec)
4. Team Saturday – 274 miles
Ray Krolewicz also finished today in 6 days 10 hours 38 min 53 sec. We had one more drop too so there are now 24 runners and 1 team that are still on the course:
John Price – 303 miles
Roy Tamez – 303 miles
Tim Purol – 300 miles
Jeff Kasal – 300 miles
Sherry Meador – 292 miles
Joseph Nance – 274 miles
John Adams – 274 miles
Charlie Taylor – 274 miles
Jeff Stephens – 274 miles
Team Saturday – 274 miles
Jeff McGonnell – 262 miles
Diane Bolton – 256 miles
Scott Krouse – 252 miles
Jeff Venable – 252 miles
Dallas Smith – 252 miles
David Wingard – 252 miles
Becky Lockard – 252 miles
Psyche Wimberly – 244 miles
Marcia Rasmussen – 217 miles
Jan Walker – 216 miles
Paul Heckert – 214 miles
Brian Curro – 203 miles
Diane Taylor – 203 miles
Joe Kowalski – 203 miles
TJ Nagies – 191 miles
It looks like there will be a bunch of finishes tonight too! Good luck everyone!
Email from Mike Dobies at 8:09 pm:
Vol State – 156 Hour Update
Tracking Sheet:
http://www.tinyurl.com/Volstate2013
Lisa: Yikes! I thought they might not run into the crazy TN storms this year!
Email from Carl Laniak at 5:21 pm:
Thunder and lightning
On the rock.
Rayk is on castle rock rd….out in it.Carl
Lisa: LOL! Looks like Joel won the race to the rock! Congrats to Joel for making the top 10!
Email from Carl Laniak at 4:43 pm:
Joel Gat – 6:09:08:35
He made it, balls in tact….?
Carl
Email from Carl Laniak at 4:08 pm:
Racing at vol state
Joel gat and rayk are both on sand mountain. There are no ties at volstate. The afternoon sun is baking hot.
There is heavy rain and violent thunder in the distance.
We have set up a finish-order-line 30′ back of the rock. In case of a sprint finish, the first one to the line will have the privilege of walking to the rock first.Carl
Lisa: We hope Jan doesn’t melt and that she finds something appetizing for dinner!
A gem of an email from Jan Walker sent at 2:03 pm:
Erica’s Huddle House Eggs…
Sorry, my brain is muddled at the moment and I can’t remember who Erica’s mom is, but thought I would tell her this…
I wholeheartedly agree that the Lewisburg Huddle House eggs are the best in the world. In fact, if the chicken that laid those eggs had been there, I’d have kissed her squarely on the beak!!’
Of course I was so hungry by the time I made it to the HH, I would have eaten dog poop…and kissed the dog that laid it… Then asked for more…
Jan Walker
Slowly melting into a puddle that some other Vol St runner will sop up and squeeze into their water bottle…
Lisa: Oh yeah! 3 for 3! We at Run It Fast are so proud of Josh. He was in #beastmode out there, fighting food poisoning and a problem shin. He is tough!
Email from Carl Laniak at 11:05 am:
Joshua Holmes – sub 6
Josh is 3 for 3 at volstate
Forgot to copy down finish time before we came back up to the rock.
It was around 5:23:17:xx I thinkCarl
Lisa: Here are the Top 10, Top 3 Women, and Team Standings as of the 144 Hour Update:
Top 10
1. Joe Fejes – 314 miles (Done! 3 days 8 hours 10 min 16 sec)
2. Alan Abbs – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 11 hours 31 min 27 sec
3. Sung Ho Choi – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 13 hours 39 min 52 sec)
4. John Fegyveresi – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 16 hours 19 min 1 sec)
5. Sal Coll – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 5 hours 52 min 42 sec)
6. Brad ComptonJim Ball – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 20 hours and 47 sec)
7. Jim Ball – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 21 hours and 20 sec)
8. Joshua Holmes – 314 miles (Done! 5 days 23 hours 17 min 7 sec)
9. Richard Westbrook – 298 miles
10. Ray Krolewicz and Joel Gat – 290 miles
Top 3 Women
1. Sherry Meador – 272 miles
2. Psyche Wimberly – 244 miles
3. Diane Bolton – 231 miles
Teams
1. Team Stinky Feet – 314 miles (Done! 2 days 19 hours 14 min 17 sec)
2. Team Country Gentlemen – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 4 hours 5 min 46 sec)
3. Team Two Step – 314 miles (Done! 4 days 12 hours 29 min 12 sec)
4. Team Saturday – 231 miles
The top 10 is almost complete! We should see Richard, Ray, and Joel finish today. Good luck to all the runners still on the course!
Email from Mike Dobies at 8:48 am:
Vol State – 144 Hour Update
Tracking Sheet:
http://www.tinyurl.com/Volstate2013
Lisa: There were 3 finishers last night while the rest of us were sleeping! Brad Compton, Jim Ball, and RIF #1 Joshua Holmes all finished sub 6. This is Josh’s 3rd consecutive VS500K finish! Congratulations to all 3!
Instagram post from Joshua:
Email from Carl Laniak at 4:46 am:
Jim ball – 5:21:00:20
Picture with bearded brad…
Carl
Email from Carl Laniak at 4:45 am:
5:20:00:47 – brad Compton
A monster push over the second half of the race.
Carl
