Day 23: The Heat and the Dust


photo by Nandana

With the temps reaching 99ºF, our band of merry warriors continued on to the work at hand. Asprihanal Aalto ran 65.30 to lead the way, closely followed by Dharbhasana Lynn, with 63.66 and Pranjal Milovnik with 63.11 miles. Only five men made it past 60 miles- one has to be extra careful on extreme days like this to not topple the applecart, so to speak. Ice cubes on the head, a little extra salt with food, and tissue salts with water a few times throughout the day were first steps to surviving the heat-wave in progress. With possibly four more brutal days, we shall see what happens …