They divide into eight groups, with every group running six miles. While the first group is running their leg the motor homes drive up the road six miles and wait for the runners. Everyone not running is required to greet the runners as they finish. The second group takes over and this process is repeated until 10 p.m. when the gold team hooks up with the blue team, which has driven 50 miles up the highway to their starting point. The gold team then gets a well-deserved rest.
Runners stay at a road side park and enjoy a meal, shower, and catch a few hours of sleep.
Then they drive 48 miles to the blue team's stopping point where they begin again for eight hours. A very touching event occurs on the last day of the run, the ceremony at Freddie's Hill. Freddie was a patient at St. Jude whom runner Lee Hall met while visiting the patients. She told Lee to find the longest and steepest hill on the route and run it for her. That hill just happened to be close to Freddie's hometown.