July 2016

Day 26 Cadney Homestead Park to Marla 82 K / 51 Miles

Prior to the second year running of the Illinois Marathon the weather had been cool. I had trained throughout the winter and felt good about doing the half-marathon. All I was going for was a personal best. Might be easy to do because the previous...

Day 25 Coober Pedy to Cadney Homestead Park 153 K / 95 Miles

With the rest day we all agreed to try to get and early start. For the first time, we were on the road before 8 AM. While the headwinds persisted they were relatively light and we made decent time. It seems that the earlier we...

Day 24 Rest Day – Coober Pedy

If I didn’t know better I would have thought I was in some hard scrabble town in the southwestern U.S., maybe in Arizona or New Mexico. Instead of a population of displace native Americans, there are the displaced Aboriginals . The parallels of white settlement...