downhill

Whenever he’s raced a marathon with a rolling profile, however, things have gone downhill fast.

Will Marty — will we — key into the bigger story underneath this adventure, the one in which the whole town, maybe the whole country, is going downhill faster than a speeding DeLorean?

"We were heartbroken and angry that it had been left so long. From then, Mum went downhill very quickly," she said.

A poisonous river of a stinking yellow liquid rushed downhill, inundating homes and fields, including the one where she grew corn to feed her eight children.

"But once it's moving, it's like the train is racing downhill, impossible to stop. Ending it requires something dramatic -- basically, a train wreck."