It was the Wednesday before the StumpJump 50-set for its seventeenth running on September 30 in Chattanooga, Tennessee-and the milder weather forecast for the weekend was apparently taking its sweet time arriving. Kyle and I had training for hills, for technical terrain, for the overall length of the course, but we were not at all prepared for six-plus hours of running in a Southern sauna. What would happen to our Northwest-weenie selves if it didn't cool off?