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The Bunion Derby was an event like no other, and there will never be another like it.\xa0 While there have been many cross continental races since 1928, none were organized in the way that C.C. Pyle had organized the event: it was an endurance race, a circus and a harsh and unforgiving competition.\xa0 \nIn his book \u201cC. C. Pyles Amazing Foot Race: the true story of the 1928 coast to coast run across America, by Geoff Williams, published by Rodale Press\u2026the author writes \u201cAs difficult as his amazing foot race was, for all the car collisions and nervous breakdowns involved, calling it the Bunion Derby was never quite accurate.\xa0 As winter turned to spring in 1928, the runners suffered blisters, brusies, boils, shin splints, charley horses, sore toes, broken and fallen arches, corns and calluses: but not one of them developed a bunion.\u201d\nShow Links:Fdip Blog of the Week: The song \u201cHuman Race\u201d was by Darius Lux