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The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

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The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

The Barkley Marathons – The Race That Eats Its Young
The unexpected inspiration for this grueling ultra marathon was the 1970s prison break of James Earl Ray, MLK’s assassin. After days on the lam, Ray was captured eight miles from the prison, a victim of the forbidding Tennessee backwoods terrain in which the Barkley Marathons are set. Race director Gary Cantrell is part sadist and part Zen master and he affects a sly, redneck persona. The series of five races total something over 100 miles—nobody other than Cantrell knows the actual distance. Each runner is racing against the clock to complete all five legs, and that means going without sleep for the better part of a week. Even more challenging, there is a total of over 120,000 feet of altitude gain and loss over the five race stages and nobody other than Cantrell knows when the first stage will actually start. Each year a new course is devised and only 15 runners have finished the race over its 25-year history. Punctuated by Cantrell’s whimsical rules and traditions, there’s a bugler on hand to play taps for racers who drop out and the race itself begins when a conch shell is blown and Cantrell lights a cigarette.

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The Barkley Marathons – 100 Mile Run 2017 Results

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The Barkley Marathons – 100 Mile Run -2017 Results

Apr. 1-3, 2017. 1:42 AM start. Fog on lap 1 and 40s to 80s for 4 laps, then thunderstorms, snow, and fog. 67,000 ft climb.

Loop 1
1 John Kelly MD             9:29:25
2 Gary Robbins BC           9:29:27
3 Benoit Laval FR           9:55:41
4 Sean Ranney CA            9:55:42
5 Johan Steene SWE          9:59:49
6 Mikael Heerman FIN       10:00:23
7 Rob Youngren AL          10:41:22
8 Erik Storheim UT         10:41:28
9 Scott Breeden IN         10:41:30
10 Megan Farrell NH        10:51:53
11 Michael Versteeg AZ     10:54:43
12 Brandon Stapanowich CO  10:54:44
13 Jamil Coury AZ          10:54:46
14 Heather Anderson WA     11:09:33
15 Adam Lint WA            11:09:39
16 Kathleen Cusick VA      11:29:03
17 Henry Wakley WV         11:33:54
18 Dale Holdaway BRA       12:09:49
19 Seth Wolpin CA          12:10:00
20 Jason Lantz PA          12:21:11
21 Arthus Guillaume FR     12:56:08
22 Wen Hsiao Chiu TAI      12:56:14
23 Ed Thomas SD            12:56:40
24 Gina Fiorini CO         13:07:05
25 Dewayne Satterfield AL  13:09:21
26 Hiram Rogers TN         13:15:40
40 Starters

Loop 2
1 Kelly                    20:18:50
2 Robbins                  20:18:52
3 Steene                   22:38:39
4 Ranney                   22:38:42
5 Laval                    23:06:49
6 Coury                    23:08:01
7 Youngren                 25:05:56
8 Storheim                 25:06:00
24 Starters

Loop 3
1 Kelly                    32:58:49
2 Robbins                  32:58:50
3 Ranney                   37:53:39
4 Steene                   37:53:40
5 Storheim                 39:03:25
6 Youngren                 39:03:26
7 Starters

Loop 4
1 Kelly                    46:26:06
2 Robbins                  46:26:07
2 Starters

Loop 5
1 Kelly                    59:30:53
2 Starters

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Barkley Marathons 100 milhas – The Barkley Marathons – 100 Mile Run

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60 quilômetros em 60 horas. Em 30 anos, apenas 14 corredores conseguiram completar a Barkley 100, uma ultramaratona que tem como palco as assombrosas montanhas do Tennessee, nos Estados Unidos.  Em 2016 apenas um conseguiu completar a prova.

Realizada em meados do mês de março ou abril, a largada ocorre sempre entre a meia noite e o meio-dia de um sábado no Parque Estadual Frozen Head. Usar GPS é proibido na Barkley 100. O percurso é demarcado por livros amarrados às árvores e o corredor precisa arrancar a página que corresponde ao seu número de peito.

Detalhe, quem participa pela primeira vez precisa entregar como “inscrição” a placa de seu carro. Quem consegue participar de uma segunda edição, deve levar peças de roupas para os organizadores, que quase nunca descem a montanha.  Fonte: http://www.folhavitoria.com.br/esportes/blogs/corridaderua/2015/05/08/pague-para-entrar-e-reze-para-sair-conheca-cinco-corridas-mais-extremas-mundo/

The Barkley is considered one of the toughest 100 mile races in the world. It has 59,100 feet of climb (and 59,100 feet of descent), more than any other 100 mile race, more than the 33,000 ft. of climb at Hardrock, and more than the 45,000 ft. at Nolan’s 14.

2016 Results

Apr. 2-4, 2016. 10:42 AM start.

Loop 1 
1 Jared Campbell UT         8:01:18
2 Gary Robbins NWF          8:01:19
3 Adam Lint WA              8:01:23
4 Andrew Thompson NH        8:14:44
5 John Kelly MD             8:58:16
6 John Fegyveresi VT        9:15:16
7 Benoit Laval FRA          9:36:13
8 Jason Poole CO           10:02:12
9 Erik Storheim UT         10:10:17
10 Ty Draney WY            10:10:18
11 Michiel Panhuysen NED   10:20:07
12 Dale Holdaway BRA       10:20:15
13 Georg Kunzfeld GER      10:48:04
14 Dominique Ecoiffier NCL 10:48:40
15 Ed Thomas SD            10:49:05
16 Nikolay Nachev WA       10:55:20
17 Mikael Andersson SWE    11:14:59
18 Jennilynn Eaton UT      11:19:39
19 Heather Anderson WA     11:24:02
20 Conrado Bermudez NJ     11:33:37
21 Rebecca Wilcox AUS      11:33:38
22 Niki Rehn NZL           11:37:36
23 Kirby Russell TN        11:37:38
24 Hiram Rogers TN         11:46:55
25 Remy Jegard FRA         11:46:56
26 Iso Yucra BOL           11:52:28
27 Hisayuki Tateno JAP     11:52:32
28 Brad Bishop CO          12:56:51
40 Starters

Loop 2 
1 Jared Campbell           19:02:32
2 Gary Robbins             19:02:33
3 John Kelly               20:13:43
4 Dale Holdaway            25:24:54
5 Jason Poole              25:47:25
6 Ty Draney                25:47:26
7 Jennilynn Eaton          26:28:37
8 Michiel Panhuysen        26:36:10
25 Starters

Loop 3 
1 Jared Campbell           31:27:16
2 Gary Robbins             31:27:20
3 John Kelly               32:38:08
7 Starters

Loop 4
1 Gary Robbins             46:39:04
2 Jared Campbell           46:40:06
3 John Kelly               47:46:58
3 Starters

Loop 5
1 Jared Campbell           59:32:30
3 Starters

Source : http://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/