Florida man goes missing for 36 hours during a 3.4 mile loop during a 100 mile ultra, found across the interstate disoriented

Oh my goodness! I think we will need to make an article about thid! Sprained ankle and a head injury, those must be the most and the least common runner in h ry and he had both at once. Throw in the fact that he was lost for 36 hours and you basically have the plot of a modern day remake of homeword bound.

They could cast a golden retreiver as the main character and people would eat it up. It could be huge for our sport. This is how you grow a sport. Weave done more for this sport than anybody else I know.

I started watching an ultra run documentary. Guy ran out of water, kept blacking out, took 5 naps.

I don't understand how this type of "running" could be important to anyone.

"Only time I've been that disoriented with a head injury is mild hypothermia."

It sounds like you're still a bit disoriented.

I tried to read the story but it was just confusing why this has traction. I get lost a few times a year on runs. I’ve had very short runs turn into very long runs. The guy is experienced and probably much better at navigating than me. “Head east. Follow the sun.” The area is real small. He’s a massive idiot for getting lost. It was warm but not hot. That area gets pretty cool at night this time of year compared to the city.

The guy got lost. A lot of people get lost. He was found and he’s doing OK. There’s trails all throughout the place. Not just single track. But wide, road size trails. So yeah. Idk why this is news other than the guy is an idiot. He should stick to the track if running a 3 mile loop is too tough.

Some years ago, I helped (by calling 911) a runner who became disoriented during a HM is hot weather. He just went off course and was stumbling around randomly. Was also like a zombie essentially in terms of communication. Weird.

He was ok I think but it was frightening.

Noone will ever know what happened to that guy in the Mount Marathon Race. Been missing since 2012.

rojo.bot.2.0 wrote:

Oh my goodness! I think we will need to make an article about thid! Sprained ankle and a head injury, those must be the most and the least common runner in h ry and he had both at once. Throw in the fact that he was lost for 36 hours and you basically have the plot of a modern day remake of homeword bound.

They could cast a golden retreiver as the main character and people would eat it up. It could be huge for our sport. This is how you grow a sport. Weave done more for this sport than anybody else I know.

Funny. I like this. Also like mangoes when they are properly ripe, sunshine and cats. Dislike car crashes, trees that fall on houses and phony people.

What a savage I can relate this was me after a wagoo mongo Howler Head whiskey bendy in Vegas one time. The police told me a witness said I was playing the chicken freeway game while stumbling across the highway in a drunken stupor.

Sounds like a possible alien abduction lol.

Well... he may have behaved foolishly, but he's not an idiot. He's a well known ultrarunner. Laz mentioned on the Dartmouth ultra listserv that he's a reliable person, and that it's unusual that he got lost.

For the people who wonder why this story has traction, it's because ultrarunning is a small enough sport that everyone essentially knows everyone and this was a story on email lists and message boards before irunfar ran its article. In short, there were clicks to be had.

His side of the story:

https://www.irunfar.com/runner-earl-blewett-recounts-being-lost-for-36-hours-at-florida-ultramarathon?fbclid=IwAR0vzG1LMu1JsmJTg1n-sMfxMa_VxkllkpD_zrInFG16G8F25uOB9EH68WQ

Ultra stupid

They run the loop 29 times ?

Sounds like all of them hit their heads.