Lawson Yale and Jacque Myers went out together at the end of the third lap, reducing the number of women in the field by two. The female contingent was further reduced when Martha Bademan was seized by the Devil after four laps. Mark Fuller perished at the end of lap five. Havana's Eric Dueno had outrun the bulls in Pamplona, Spain earlier in July, but he couldn't outrun the Devil and bowed out after six laps. Shelton Ansley of Cairo, Georgia followed Dueno off the track at the end of the seventh lap. Paula O'Neill had been the longest surviving female runner in the 2012 Devil Take The Hindmost, but this year she was eliminated in the sprint at the end of lap eight. Exhausted by that sprint, Kellie Gerbes went more quietly after nine laps. Ten athletes were left on the track.
The 15th lap was Sheryl Rosen's last. The Tallahassee lawyer was the last woman taken from the track by the Devil; the four remaining athletes were male. Charn McAllister was the first of the four to be taken by the Devil, falling behind at the end of the 16th lap. On the seventeenth lap Stephen Cox and Peter Kaus left Paul Guyas behind, setting up the last-lap match race. Waiting for the lap to begin, the two competitors caught their breath. The Devil watched on in anticipation.
The new rules were adapted from a race in Guernsey, one of the odd corners of the globe where the Devil Take The Hindmost is run. There weren't any complaints about the rules, but what good could come out of complaining to the Devil anyway? By whatever rules, the Devil will be back again.
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Links
- More photos of the 2013 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10103323866826083.1073741873.5215641&l=b62bc65089
- All about the 2012 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run, with results and links to photos
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/07/devil-2012.html
- All about the 2011 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run, with results and links to photos
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/devil-2011.html
- All about the 2004 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run, with results and links to photos
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/devil-2004.html
- All about the 1993 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run, including results
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/devil-1993.html
- All about the 1992 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run, including results
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/devil-1992.html
- Announcement for the 2013 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/devil-returns-2013.html
- Announcement for the 2011 Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Run
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/devil-returns-2011.html
- Find upcoming races of a more usual sort on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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