WARTBURG, Tenn. — On Friday night, in the Cumberland Mountains of
eastern Tennessee, 28 men and 7 women will lie in tents half asleep in
anticipation of hearing a conch shell being blown at Big Cove Campground
in Frozen Head State Park. When they hear the call, which will arrive
sometime between 11 p.m. that night and 11 a.m. Saturday, they will know
they are 60 minutes from the start of an ordeal once referred to as a
“satanic running adventure.”
It is a 100-mile footrace that some say is actually 130 miles or more,
through unmarked trails that have names like Meth Lab Hill, Bad Thing
and Leonard’s Buttslide and that are choked with prickly saw briers.
Temperatures often range from freezing to blistering on the same day,
and there is a cumulative elevation gain of more than 60,000 feet, or
the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest twice from sea level ...
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