A Sea Of Red

From Tuesday's Lynchburg fishwrap:

For those who questioned whether Liberty University professor and ultra-marathon man David Horton was truly human or really a running machine, he gave a hint at his humanity on Sunday. That was the day Horton called off his summer-long speed record attempt on the Continental Divide Trail, following a grueling first day of running through extreme temperatures on a poorly marked section of the trail just north of the Mexican border.

After getting lost and running out of water far short of Saturday’s first-day destination, Horton came face to face with his own mortality before stumbling upon an oasis of sorts in the 108-degree Chihuahuan Desert. “I finally found a windmill with a stop tank and I’d been cramping so bad that I couldn’t walk,” Horton said on a recorded message posted on the http://www.eco-xsports.com Web site, maintained by Clark Zealand, who planned to keep a running blog of Horton’s progress through the summer. “My hamstrings were cramping, my calves were cramping. So I thought, ‘If I don’t stop, I’m going to fall over right here and no one will ever find me in these bushes.’” ...

“Right after I went to bed, I started throwing up and throwing up, dry heaves, and everything I’d put in I lost,” Horton said. “So I tried to sleep … and couldn’t sleep because my hands were cramping, my legs were cramping, my calves were cramping. And then got up (Sunday) morning at 5 a.m. and everything was still cramping and I couldn’t eat.” He decided to take the day off in the town of Deming, N.M., where he tried to get intravenous fluids at a medical clinic, which was closed. He sat down with Basham and Thomas and took a good, hard look at Monday’s route, which featured just as much bushwacking through the desert in intense heat, and came to the conclusion to call it off.

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/sports/o ... trek/5610/

http://eco-xsports.blogspot.com/2008/06 ... -over.html

I meant to post that yesterday. Apparently, God has bigger plans for Horton. Also on the eco-X site...there are some great videos of how he fared.

http://eco-xsports.blogspot.com/

Well, at least he began the race that he was so excited about. When I saw him before the race he was running about 40 miles a week or a day, I don't remember. But all smiles.

Psh! Baby.

tinytim wrote: When I saw him before the race he was running about 40 miles a week or a day, I don't remember. But all smiles.

Slight difference there!


Horton is still the man. No doubt in my book.