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Download barkley marathon 20219/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Courtney Dauwalter - a fantastic ultra runner who's been smashing records left right and center in her career, a favourite to be the first woman to complete the event.Two competitors stood out for me that I was rooting for this year: The last few days have mainly involved me obsessively checking twitter to see how the runners have been getting on, with the event having kicked off on March 18th at 03:04am.Īfter a brief memorial for the members of the Barkley family who no longer are with us, the cigarette was lit at 3:04am. There is also a highly regarded documentary about the event itself here: Only 15 people have ever finished the Barkley Marathons, and within the last 3 events it has had no finishers at allīy far my favourite running documentary was on Gary Robbin's 2 attempts at the Barkley, which also gives a good overview of the event.Race director Lazarus Lake marks the beginning of the race by lighting a cigarette.The start time is not know to runners, instead they wait for a conch to be blown, which gives them 1 hour to get ready.To prove they have completed the loop runners have to find 13 hidden books and tear out a page corresponding to their race number.Whenever there is a finisher, the course is made harder to keep it at the limits of human endurance.No GPS or tracking devices are allowed, only the route instructions and compasses.No filming of the route by crew is allowed. The route is changed every year and distributed to runners in the form of rather cryptic instructions.The cut off times imposed are brutally difficult for the course.The course is a rough, unmarked off-trail run with over 16,000 meters of climb.and as an event it attracts the toughest competitors in the sport due to some unique conditions, namely: The challenge is to complete a roughly 100 mile course (5 laps of the route) within 60 hours. As a spectator it is fascinating to watch due to the sheer difficulty of the event, the high level of it's competitors and strangeness of it's traditions. For those who haven't heard of them the Barkley Marathons are a yearly ultramarathon event held in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee, US. ![]()
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