Doing great!

Awesome.

It's the only word to describe how Lorie has been doing so far. It's almost 7 p.m. here in Panamint Springs where two crew members are taking a rest after a meal. Lorie is somewhere between here and Stovepipe Wells. She is flying through this course, so far. On the way here she has nearly 5,000 feet in elevation gain - and then she has to come back down (ooh, don't your quads ache just thinking about that?). Throughout the day she has been picking off runners who started two hours before her.

Strange thing. There's been an inordinate amount of rain here in Death Valley over the past few days and roads are getting washed out. On the way here to Panamint we drove through a basin that had standing water on either side of the road. So, they are actually (as of right now) ending the race at this location, 60 miles away from Lone Pine. The runners will come through here, go 30 miles ahead to milepost 120 and then turn around and come back to Panamint to log the full 135 miles. It's rare to change the course that dramatically, but it's got to be done.

Either way, Lorie appears to be on her way to a very grand first time here at the Badwater Ultramarathon! Oh, daytime temperature in the van/shade has been 111. Yeah, it's been hot out here. Crew members are all doing fine - in awe, actually.

Check in later!