That's 16 hour miles."īackyard Ultras are another Laz invention ("Just One More Loop") and will possibly be his most enduring legacy. "If you run off the map, the map doesn't help much anymore. He didn't find his way back until 32 hours later. Since 40 people are in each year, two finishers every five years is about right." It's designed so only 1% of entrants should be able to finish. They are someone who goes home and works to get better." "A 'Barker' isn't someone who says, "This isn't fair!" and goes home. But not always clean, and not always fun." The Barkley Marathons is an iconic, world-renowned event, and the subject of two films, even though only 40 people enter, there is no website, and the time and even the date of the race is secret. That is a low bar, but possibly by accident he has single-handily changed ultrarunning forever. He is the founding editor of Trail Runner and the author of "Kicksology: The Hype, Science, Culture and Cool of Running Shoes.Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake, (or is it the other way around?) could be the most creative person in the entire sport. In 2018, he ran the Great Wall of China, completed the Leadman series and ran a 100K in South Korea. But each will stagger back into camp to share their stories of (mis)adventure, maybe even over pizza and ice cream."īoulder-based Brian Metzler has run more than 75,000 miles in his life, competing in every distance from 50 meters to 100 miles, running the Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim run across the Grand Canyon and back several times, racing pack burros on many occasions and going up Colorado's Longs Peak 20 times. "A bunch of my friends come over and I get to show them around my home mountains and explore the forests I love, returning a bit of the favor that so many people and places have shown me. "For me the Barkley Marathons has become the equivalent of those sleepovers," Kelly said on Instagram. Want to follow the Barkley action? Follow #BM100 on Twitter, as well as and likened his return to Frozen Head State Park to run with the small community of Barkley runners similar to friends coming over for a sleepover when he was a youngster. RELATED: Meet Frozen Ed, The Barkley Marathons' First Finisher. A book called The Finishers from photographers highlights the stories of the 15 individuals who have completed all five loops. The race was the subject of a 2014 Netflix documentary, Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young. If a runner makes it to the start of the fifth lap, it's their choice which direction they go. The first two laps are done in the same direction, while the third and fourth laps are done in the opposite direction. Each of the loops must be done in 12 hours in order to begin another lap in an attempt to complete the full course. Each runner's bib number is the page number they need to rip out of that book and bring with to prove you reached that point. In the days prior to the race, Cantrell places 10 or 11 books out on the course to serve as checkpoints. Tomo Ihara at the 2022 Barkley Marathons. Vermont's Sue Johnston and British runner Jasmin Paris own the best women's finishes, with three laps in 20, respectively. We tracked down stories from seven runners, from virgins to veterans.Īlthough Utah's Jared Campbell has finished it three times (2012, 2014, 2016), the only other runner with more than one finish is Colorado's Brett Maune (2011, 2012). RELATED: The Barkley Marathons got weird this year. 1999 Hardrock winner Blake Wood tried Barkley eight times between 19, but only finished once, in 2001. Frozen Ed Furtaw, author of Tales from Out There, a historical account of Barkley, has attempted the race more than a dozen times. More than half of the contestants each year are previous Barkley veterans. Since the race's inception in 1986, only 15 of the roughly 1,000 runners who have tried Barkley have completed it. (Photo: Preston Keres/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Competitors rip pages from books titled, “The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming Back,” “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” and “Bright Days, Stupid Nights” to prove they had made it through difficult areas of the Barkley Marathon, on Ma.
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