The long run

There was no doubt this run of the Little Rock Hash had gone too long, but even so, Rock couldn't explain the divergence of landmarks he and his friends had passed.
The start was in Little Rock's River Market district, near downtown. The large group would later pass through Levy and eventually reach Russellville. Rock and several others ran by the old Wonder Burger, right where it had always been, about a half mile south of the Arkansas Tech campus on El Paso Street. Rock remembered it closing more than forty years earlier when he was in junior high school. It had remained there as an abandoned, ramshackle ghost of itself as long as he could remember but now was in full operation.
They were headed on El Paso south toward Main Steet. Rock still felt strong, but when Skip and Cassandra complained that they had been out too long, Rock couldn't resist the opportunity for humor.
"Yeah, this thing better not be any longer than another two or three feet," he said.
Skip laughed and said,  "Right. Otherwise I'm gonna go back to the Wonder Burger."