They barely eat, and some won't get any sleep for two-and-a-half days.ĩ8 per cent of the people who try to run the Barkley don't finish. Barkley co-creator Gary Cantrell, aka Lazarus Lake It's important to be able to maintain your equilibrium when things are not designed to help you out. A successful finisher will have to run 161 kilometres through rough, unmarked terrain, and they'll have to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest. The Barkley Marathons - plural because it's actually five marathons stacked together over 60 hours - is now in its 32nd year. On Saturday, 40 runners will gather in the backwoods of Tennessee for one the weirdest, wildest and most difficult trail races in the world.
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