The Barkley Marathon is about to start! Former Spine race winner and super Irish competitor Eoin Keith is attenpting it. Only 15 finishers in the 30 years it has been running.
https://runningmagazine.ca/2018-bark...ns-start-time/
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The Barkley Marathon is about to start! Former Spine race winner and super Irish competitor Eoin Keith is attenpting it. Only 15 finishers in the 30 years it has been running.
https://runningmagazine.ca/2018-bark...ns-start-time/
All runnable
It is hard to imagine just how rough the ground they are crossing must be!
Does anyone know how Eoin did? There seems to be no mention of him anywhere.
Every time I look at this event it fills me with dread and foreboding. To even think of entering it takes balls.
Eoin came in with 4 others a few hours after the loop 2 cut off. He had no compass and a broken shoulder.
Rain made the route a mud bath.
There is a few short videos on Eoin's page that are worth watching.
https://www.facebook.com/Eoin-Keith-...0273035349427/
See this and digest!
https://www.lequipe.fr/explore-video...ey-sans-pitie/
Oh no, that's terrible. I'll go and catch up on some reports now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ally
If you want to see what the course is actually like, this is the only video that really comes close.
https://youtu.be/dRpEE-82bWc
So: steep but runnable orienteering terrain, just like in many parts of Britain. Except that orienteers would regard a 16km course in that terrain as rather long; how long is the Barkley, again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ally
4 x 20 miles? Not long
5 x 25ish + 18000m ascent
An Englishman was the first person ever to complete the Barkley proper... (100 miler and not the fun run 60 miler). He trained mainly in the Lakes.
James Elson, Paul Giblin and Nicky Spinks are there for the brits this year. Especially looking forward to seeing how Nicky gets on...first female finisher?
Amazing stuff. This challenge looks nutsQuote:
Originally Posted by Pragmatic
Elson and Carol Morgan out.
Nicky still going (loop 2)
Not sure about Giblin?
Nicky out ☹️
Shows how tough it is out there I guess
Any way of reading this article? I am not subscribing to the Telegraph.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/20...ltra-marathon/
Have just sent you a message with the text of it - I don't think it's a hugely revelatory article, but it's not a bad introductory one.
Yes agreed.
Watched the documentary on Netflix last night .... twice, that is some race, the runners looked like they’d been flayed after a couple of laps, definitely worth a watch :)
I was "lucky" enough to be crewing this year, so got to see the race close up. Well, the very small parts that you can. i.e. at the campground and at the top of Rat Jaw.
Most people coming through the first loop at Rat Jaw (about 2/3rd of the way in) looked wiped out by the heat. By the beginning of the second loop for most, the rain/sleet had started and the temperature had dropped by about 25 degrees. I won't be tempted to enter next year ;).