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The winner of the Last Soul Ultra ran 94 loops. He ran 94 because the man who lost ran 93.
The format is a 6.7km loop, every hour, on the hour, until one runner is left. 169 started in Germany on a Friday afternoon. It ended Tuesday morning.
What kept Mark Dowdle going was not a target. There isn't one. No finish line, no distance to reach, no clock to beat. The only thing sending him back out was that Ayyoub El Osrouti hadn't stopped.
Ello is the one I keep thinking about.
He was running on the same Achilles that ended his race the year before, when he stepped off and the win went to someone else. Reports say it flared again. He walked longer and longer stretches through the final morning and kept making the bell anyway. 93 loops. Second-best backyard run by a German, ever.
He lost. He also dragged the winner past a mark that had never been beaten on German soil.
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Christ's Descent into Hell, Follower of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, second quarter of the 16th century). Oil on two oak planks, 53.3 x 116.8 cm. The Met, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.244), on view in Gallery 613. A panoramic hell where Christ breaks the gate to free the just: Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, David and the patriarchs climb a ruined tower, Sisyphus heaves his stone up the rock on the right, and Judas is dragged back. Paint analysis shows the orange of the burning sky continuing under the blue in the upper left corner: more of the sky was originally on fire. Public Domain, Open Access.
Original artwork (The Met, Open Access): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435725
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