Thank you to all that have contributed to Marathon Investigation. After much deliberation, both runners were removed from the results. It was clear that Bre and Khloe did not complete the course when they could not provide any pages from any of the books. At The Barkley Marathons, runners collect pages from books that are set out at various points on the course. There are no timing mats, so the evidence against Bre and Khloe is largely circumstantial. It was also unclear why Bre and Khloe were awarded medals, as there are no such perks at The Barkley Marathons. I am a full time fitness professional, please follow me on Instagram” There was no one to check me in at the checkpoints. Or, if you’re insane, pony up $1.60 and attempt to register.When Bre was questioned about her pace, which would have been a record shattering 50 miles per hour, she responded: (It appears Robbins hit all the checkpoints, but may have inadvertently took a two-mile shortcut because of issues with fog.)Ī documentary about the race, The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, is on Netflix, and you can watch the trailer below. “It’s a story for the ages,” Cantrell told Canadian Running Magazine of Robbins’s finish, which has since become a matter of some dispute. Inspired by MLK assassin James Earl Ray’s attempted prison break in the same area in 1977 - he was only able to traverse eight miles in 55 hours - Barkley creator Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell fashioned the race as a way to prove he could do better, and named it for his running partner, Barry Barkley.Ĭantrell was at the finish line for this year’s race to meet Robbins and inform him of his fate.

Robbins is far from the first to be bested by the 100-mile ultramarathon (only 15 people have completed the race since 1986, including John Kelly this year) and he won’t be last to fall short during the annual event, which is held in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee every March or April. 002778% of the time allotted for competitors to complete the race - represent a fraction of the time Robbins spent preparing, not to mention how long he’ll regret his finish. But one of them states that a finisher must cross the line in 60 hours - or 216,000 seconds.

There are few rules in the Barkley Marathons, quite possibly the most difficult endurance race in the United States, if not the entire world.

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