The Last Annual Vol State Road Race 2017 - Updates 216 Hours
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:20:18 +0000
From: lazarus
Subject: oprah is coming
oprah is coming.
no time to wax philosophic.
oprah is coming.
andy, shennoah, leslie look safe.
ed and dan ought to make it....
diane, james, and tanya are in for the fight of their lives.
for the past 9 days,
oprah has dogged their heels.
a time or two she has slipped past.
each time, they have fought their way back.
but now their races have come to the last desperate hours,
and they are behind again.
non vol-staters cannot possibly understand.
you cannot judge this contest
by miles and times and paces that you encounter every day..
the effects of 9 days of punishment
and stress
and heat, hills and humidity
have turned this into a contest of an endless deathmarch,...
with oprah relentlessly representing ultimate failure.
diane, james, and tanya will started down the dreaded jasper mountain
with oprah ahead.
they must look into their weary souls
and find the strength to come back one more time.
they must force their shredded feet to move a little faster
or all this.
9 days of and stress
and heat, hills and humidity
will count for nothing.
only 2 outcomes are possible.
a sticker...
or nothing.
for 9 days we have seen oprah run down the weak,
and crush them under her spiked heels.
no matter how valiant the effort
not one has been able to survive,
once oprah has caught them.
we have exhorted the runners on
in their desperate struggle.
and then we have watched them fall.
jes and tanya are rookies.
diane has pulled this off before,
but she has seen many vol states
many battles with oprah
and her feet do not move as fast as they once did.
oprah never tires,
she never ages.
the last time this battle was fought,
diane fell.
dare we hope that james and tanya
can succeed,
where all before them have failed?
dare we believe that diane
can win one more battle with oprah?
of course we can.
that is what makes us human.
screw you, oprah,
run james run
go tanya go
come on diane,
find the magic one more time!
19 hours to go.
laz
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