Incredible achievement by Jasmin. The fact that John Kelly tapped out shows how tough it was this year. I wonder if she will consider another attempt (after the scars have healed!?)
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Incredible achievement by Jasmin. The fact that John Kelly tapped out shows how tough it was this year. I wonder if she will consider another attempt (after the scars have healed!?)
Karel Sabbe tapped out (nav errors, lift back to camp after asking a trash can for help)
1 monster left - Greig Hamilton (loop 4)
Greig Hamilton now missed cut-off
Barkleys wins again
John Kelly lost his pages on the third loop and spent three hours looking for them! But for that, he definitely would have started loop 4Quote:
Originally Posted by PeteS
I hadn't seen that. Bad luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by r0bh
Guillaume Calmettes had one of his pages blown out of his sac by the wind and had to tap out.
What's the longest anyone has ever run non-stop. Not even for eating or bodily functions?
I had seen that Damian Hall was doing it this year but quite a stellar field as well.
Seen some pictures of the area recently and conditions don't look too bad at the moment. We could even get a winner!
Or even a finisher!Quote:
Originally Posted by PeteS
My bad. Obviously having recently acclimatised to Blighty from VT, I'm finding it hard to adust the other way!
Still hoping we could get a finisher this year and that Nicky does well.
Jasmine through Loop 1 - 8:36:57
Out for loop 2
Damien Hall (20:07:04) and Jasmine Paris (21:13:07) both complete loop 2 and are back out for loop 3
Nicky Spinks and Eoin Keith complete loop 2 (over the time limit). Top, top effort.
So runners remaining and out on loop 3 are "John Kelly, Albert Herrero Casas, Damian Hall, Christophe Nonorgue, nondescript guy, Karel Sabbe, Joe McConaughy, Aurelian Sanchez, Jasmin Paris, Pavel Paloncy, Guillaume Calmettes, Tomo Ihara, Aaron Bradner, Piotr Chadovich, Johan Steene"
Go Jasmine!
John Kelly, Damian Hall and Albert Herero Casas complete Loop 3 in ~32:04:xx
2 to go…setting up for potentially an epic last loop. Absolute Monsters
Albert Herrero Casas, John Kelly, and Damian Hall finished loop three in 32:03:59, 04:01, 04:03, respectively.
Kelly and Hall back out for Loop
4 after 25mins admin
Jasmine still in it, beats the cut-off to begin loop 4 with under 20mins to spare.
3 loops completed in 35:40:46
Heads out with 6.5 minutes to spare at 35:53:27 (becoming only the second woman ever to start loop 4).
Gonna take an incredible effort and maybe some good luck to beat the penultimate cut-off (48:00hrs) but she’s still going.
You start to hallucinate at around that sort of time, or at least some do.
Only the second woman ever to begin loop 4 so a superlative effort from Jasmine.
With 6 runners still out there, this is the that has ever started loop 4.
Damian Hall completes loop 4 in 47:39:25
20mins to get out for final loop attempt. Monumental effort required now…but it IS daylight for the remainder of the 60hrs.
…actually 47:29:25…30mins to play with by the looks of thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Pragmatic
Unfortunately Jasmine has missed the cut off.
Damian Hall heads out on loop 5 10mins before the cut-off after just a 10minute turnaround. Just bloody incredible tbh
Jasmine back safely. Great effort.
Damian also back safely from failed loop 5. Also a great effort, surely will give it another try next year?
Aurelian Sanchez completes loop five and finishes the 2023 Barkley Marathons in 58:23:12
John Kelly completes Loop 5 and finishes 2023 Barkley Marathons in 58:42:23. His second finish.
Phenomenal effort and achievement by both
With just 6 minutes and 27 seconds remaining Karel Sabbe completes loop 5 and finishes the 2023 Barkley Marathons in 59:53:33.
3rd and final finisher of 2023.
A fantastic effort by all involved, especially Damian Hall, who must have used up so much energy either sailing, rowing or swimming to the USA to get to the start line. ;)
Can someone enlighten me as to what makes the Barkley Marathons so uniquely tough? Many of the competitors are people who would routinely do 100 miles over hilly trails in under 24 hours, yet very few manage the distance in under 60 hours at Barkley. So is it:
(a) The steepness? But a single loop at Barkley is a similar distance to the Wasdale race, with only about 20% more climbing and descent.
(b) The terrain. It's forested, but pictures that I have seen make it look like what orienteers would consider runnable, or at worst, "slow run".
(c) The navigation. How difficult is it to find those books?
Or what?
Well any race that is set up with the intention that nobody finishes, is going to have to be tough! There is little in the way of concrete information about the route which gets tweaked each year and with 3 finishers this year, heaven help next year's entry.
100miles is the stated length but most competitors believe it to be much more - nearer 125. As GPS is not allowed, nobody knows for sure. The climb is estimated to be somewhere in the region of 55,000 feet in total.
Yes there are some trails but a lot is off-piste in dense woodland covered with briars. A lot of runners come back from each loop ripped to shreds. The terrain is tough and combine that with the dense vegetation, navigation will be exceedingly difficult especially as at least half will be in the dark too. The weather is known for extremes of hot and cold, and frequently wet. One water station was frozen solid this year.
You can't use your own watch - you are given one but it will have come from a thrift shop and you'll be lucky if it works and of course, not knowing when the race will start is going to screw up your prep too.
There's a good documentary on it which I found on Amazon prime - other video streaming channels are available!
This is probably not the time or place for it.... but this "race" has never caught my imagination in the slightest.
(not trying to pour scorn on it.... its clearly incredibly difficult).
Agreed. It is a mixture of silliness, and difficulty for difficulty's sake. I am surprised it is worshipped so. But it is undoubtedly extremely tough, and I admire those who do it, especially if they succeed in doing all 5 loops in the required time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
So it's a bit like completing the London Marathon pushing a peanut with your nose...it's hard to achieve but which sane individual would wish to?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike T
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Originally Posted by Mike T
I imagine road runners say similar things about fell running!Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
You also have to put it in the context of Laz's other offerings as RO...
I was fairly intrigued by it a few years ago and there is still some intrigue now, but for something that it seems was meant to be low key and off the wall, there does now seem to be an excessive amount of hype and media cult about it.
Then again, things that I was 'psyched' (to use that horrible word) about 5-10 years ago I'm really not that fussed about and am more on nodding terms with now.
It reminds me of a cartoon I saw many years ago; A big exciting science story has broken and someone says "man I love science", to which a scientist replies "do you really love science, or are you just drooling over its arse as it walks away?" A lot of the buzz around running gets me feeling like this now. Thankfully Fell Running salves that. People doing the Barclay are impresssive, but there's no need to lionise it so much. Those knocking out fast 5km times are due as much adulation, but that's not as hyped.
Small beer I’m sure amongst all the high brow stuff being debated on here :D but Jasmin Paris has just nailed the beast, with 90 seconds to spare, to become the first ever woman to complete 5 loops at the Barkley Marathons (anything between 100 and 130 miles, with c 55,500 ft of ascent) in the Tennessee backwoods
Could be possibly the greatest ever women’s long distance running achievement and done with so little time left on the clock!
Didn't Damian Hall go out on the final loop as well? Or did i read that wrong?
I saw the pic of the 5 finishers and he wasn't on it.
Jasmin looked absolutely f****d in that photo sitting against the finish barrier, in fact i didn't even recognise her.
I still stand by my comments above that it doesn't really capture the imagination for me... but i did recently watch a documentary featuring that Belgian guy who made the finish with about 10mins to spare a couple of years ago. Then the following year he regained his record on the Pacific Crest Trail.
I don't really follow American Ultra stuff.... but that Unbreakable documentary about the Western States 100, when Killian Jornet and those 3 Americans were all battling it out, was really good.
Damian bombed out on loop 5
Same here - just had a quick browse last night and come across the picture and just thought whoever that is, they've been through the ringer :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Incredible achievement.