Five o’clock, and the three became two. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh), “Larry” on the backyard circuit, went out for his

Four o’clock. Twenty-one hours in, and it has been the same three for five loops now — nobody has fallen

Three o’clock, twenty hours in. Three runners keep trading the same hour with the clock: Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) in

Two o’clock. The same three names, the same corral, the same bell — this is the stretch of a backyard

One o’clock, and the night has settled into its rhythm: bell, corral, loop, back, wait. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) came

Three runners answered the midnight bell and all three came home. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) in at 51:53, Bibs 7

Two of the steadiest names on this board are done — but not before one last, nail-biting loop each. Manoj

Loop 15 will be the one people talk about after tonight. Manoj Sundaram went out, and came home with two

Loop 14 came home clean — all seven still out there answered the bell, and nobody fell. The tightest return

Loop 13 took no one — four loops in a row now without a fall. All seven ULTRA runners answered