Participants (and that’s what most will be - participants, not finishers) have 60 hours to navigate the five-loop course, which is not marked, and GPS devices are not allowed. ( Gary Robbinsof Chilliwack, B.C., has raced the Barkley three times, and came close to finishing in 2017.)Īround 40 runners get to race the Barkley Marathons every year, and the run through the woods and mountains of Tennessee starts when Lake lights a cigarette – one hour after the conch blows. The most recent finish belongs to John Kelly, who was the only person to complete the race in 2017. Since then, 14 more runners have joined Williams on the short list of finishers, and a couple of men have recorded multiple finishes ( Brett Maune finished in 20 and Jared Campbell finished in 2012, 20).
RELATED: What you need to know about the Barkley Marathons The first running of the event was in 1986, and it didn’t see a finisher until nine years later, when Mark Williams completed the full route in 1995. He has created several races, all of which are long, gruelling affairs, but his most famous event is the Barkley. Laz Lake is well known in the world of ultrarunning. A shot from The Finishers featuring John Kelly, the most recent finisher of the Barkley Marathons, as he completes the storied race in 2017. A new book titled The Finishers has been published in French (with an English edition on its way), which tells the stories of those 15 Barkley Marathons finishers, as well as the tale of the event itself, through photography and runners’ stories from one of the world’s toughest races. So difficult, in fact, that only 15 runners have ever completed the roughly 100-mile run through Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park in its 35-year history. You might not know much about the race, but you’ll at least know it’s incredibly difficult. If you follow trail running or ultrarunning, odds are you know about the Barkley Marathons.
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