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[pct-l] the jmt runners....



Hi All,

    I'm not so charitable or supportive or something. Anyway I was sort of
hoping someone would stick out his/her foot and trip them as they ran past
on the trail. Let the runners do their marathon endurance runs somewhere
other than the wilderness. My 2¢.

John

tom hopkins wrote:

> I checked the webpage this evening on the 4 guys who were trying to run
> the John Muir Trail in four days. They were trying to go from Yosemite
> Valley to Red's Meadows[57 miles and lots of elevation gain] in one day
> and then run 3 equally difficult days. I ached for them just reading the
> plan. They quit at Red's Meadows. It sounded like they kind of split up
> and arrived at different times. Hey, at least they tried. I barely made
> the same trip in 16 days and thought I was moving right along!
> Tom in Sacramento